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The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football League.
The first AFL premiership match to be played at the new stadium was contested between West Coast and Sydney on 25 March 2018. [70] Perth Stadium became the twelfth venue to host a Grand Final in VFL/AFL history, when, due to the COVID-19 lockdown in Victoria precluding travel from the state, it hosted the 2021 AFL Grand Final. [71]
The club's first official home-and-away match at Subiaco Oval against Richmond on 29 March 1987 was played before a crowd of 23,897. The fledgling Eagles, down by 33 points at the final change, somehow managed to outscore the visiting and tiring Tigers nine goals to one in the final term to run out 14-point winners – a club record last quarter comeback that lasted until round 10 of 2006. [9]
[9] [10] The 2023 grand final was then initially set to play at CommBank Stadium which would be the second time it would host there, both times as a neutral venue. [11] Melbourne City and Central Coast Mariners were the participants for this grand final, as Central Coast won 6–1; the second A-League Men grand final where a team scored six goals.
The port city of Fremantle, Western Australia has a rich footballing history, hosting the state's first organised game of Australian rules in 1881. [5] Fremantle's first teams, the Fremantle Football Club, the Union/Fremantle Football Club and East Fremantle Football Club, dominated the early years of the West Australian Football League (WAFL), winning 24 of the first 34 premierships. [6]
Winfield were not the first tobacco company to sponsor the NSWRL Premiership, however; from 1960 to 1981 the pre-season competition was sponsored by W. D. & H. O. Wills. A redesigned ARL premiership trophy, the Optus Cup , was introduced in 1996 and lasted until 1997 before the ARL and Super League merged to form the National Rugby League (NRL ...
Optus Stadium, host venue of the 2021 AFL Grand Final. For the second consecutive season, the COVID-19 pandemic caused alterations to the grand final scheduling. As the 2021 AFL finals series approached, the state of Victoria was under lockdown restrictions that made mass gatherings at stadiums impossible; the Victorian lockdown had commenced on 6 August, and case numbers continued to rise ...
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