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West Australian Football League

Upcoming season or competition: 2026 WAFL season
Formerly	1885–1907:West Australian Football Association 1931–1979:Western Australian National Football League 1990:Western Australia State Football League 1997–2000:Westar Rules
Sport	Australian rules football
Founded	1885; 141 years ago (1885)
First season	1885; 141 years ago (1885)
Owner	WA Football
No. of teams	10
Region	Western Australia
Most recent champion	South Fremantle (15th premiership)
Most titles	East Fremantle (30)
Broadcasters	Seven Network AFL Media
Sponsor	Sullivan Logistics
Official website	www.wafl.com.au

TheWest Australian Football League (WAFL/ˈwɒfəl/ "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is anAustralian rules football league based inPerth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from April to September, with the top five teams playing off in afinals series, culminating in aGrand Final. The league also runsreserves, colts (under-19^[1]) andwomen's competitions.

The WAFL was founded in 1885 as theWest Australian Football Association (WAFA), and has undergone a variety of name changes since then, re-adopting its current name in2001. For most of its existence, the league was considered one of the traditional "big three" Australian rules football leagues, along with theVictorian Football League andSouth Australian National Football League. However, since the introduction of two Western Australia-based clubs into theVictorian Football League (later renamed the Australian Football League) – theWest Coast Eagles in1987 and theFremantle Dockers in1995 – the popularity and standard of the league has decreased to the point where it is considered afeeder competition to theAustralian Football League.^{[citation needed]}

Although payments are made to players, it is generally considered to be a semi-professional competition, with asalary cap ofA$245,000 per club. The league is currentlyaffiliated with the two Western Australia-based AFL clubs. The competition is governed byWA Football.

The West Australian Football League operates on a single table system, with no divisions, conferences nor promotion and relegation from other leagues.

Club	Colours	Nickname	Home ground	Capacity	Former League	Est.	Years in WAFL	Premierships
								Total	Most Recent
Claremont*		Tigers	Claremont Oval,Claremont[a][2]	5,000	WAFA	1906	1926*	12	2012
East Fremantle		Sharks	East Fremantle Oval, East Fremantle[b]	20,000	–	1898	1898-	30	2023
East Perth		Royals	Leederville Oval,Leederville[c]	18,000	PFRJA	1906	1906-	17	2002
Peel(A)		Thunder	Rushton Park,Mandurah	10,000	–	1996	1997-	3	2024
Perth		Demons	Lathlain Park, Lathlain[d][3]	6,500	PFRJA	1899	1899-	7	1977
South Fremantle		Bulldogs	Fremantle Oval,Fremantle[4]	17,000	–	1900	1900-	15	2025
Subiaco		Lions	Leederville Oval,Leederville[e]	18,000	PFRJA	1896	1901-	16	2021
Swan Districts		Swans	Bassendean Oval,Bassendean	22,000	–	1934	1934-	8	2010
West Coast(R)		Eagles	Lathlain Park, Lathlain[g][3]	6,500	–	2019	2019-	0	-
West Perth		Falcons	Arena Joondalup,Joondalup[5][f]	16,000	–	1891	1891-[6]	20	2022

^a Claremont played at theClaremont Showground from1925 to1927 and again from2014 until2016 when Claremont Oval was closed for re-development, and atSubiaco Oval from1945 to1947 whenClaremont Oval was being rebuilt after a grandstand fire in1944.
Claremont were known as Claremont-Cottesloe between1926 and1934.

^b East Fremantle played atFremantle Oval from1898 to1952, excluding a period in1906 where home games were played atEast Fremantle Oval; and at theWACA Ground (in2022 and2023), Fremantle Oval (2024) and Claremont Oval (2024) whilstEast Fremantle Oval is re-developed.

^c East Perth played atWellington Square from1902 to1909, atPerth Oval from1910, to1987 and from1990 to1999, and at the WACA Ground during1988 and1989. East Perth were aligned withWest Coast between2014 and2018.

^d Perth played at theWACA Ground from1899 to1958 and during1987 and1988.

^e Subiaco played atShenton Park between1901 and1905, atMueller Park in1906 and1907, and atSubiaco Oval from1908 to2003.

^f West Perth played atLeederville Oval from1915 to1993.

^g West Coast mainly play away games, selling their home games to other clubs, when they do play home games it is at their training base atLathlain Park

• (R) Denotes that the club is the reserves team of a senior club of theAustralian Football League
• (A) Denotes that the club is the affiliation team of a senior club of theAustralian Football League

• Claremont known as Claremont-Cottesloe from1926 to1934.

• Peel have been aligned withFremantle since 2014.

• Perth was known as Victoria Park from1934 to1935.

Claremont	East Fremantle	East Perth	Peel	Perth
South Fremantle	Subiaco	Swan Districts	West Coast	West Perth

Eleven other clubs formerly competed in the competition:

Club	Colours	Nickname(s)	Home ground(s)	Former League	Est.	Years in WAFL	WAFL Premierships		Fate
							Total	Most Recent
Centrals			None/Unknown[h]	–	1891	1891–1891	0	-	Folded after1891 season
East Perth (I)			None/Unknown[h]	–	1891	1891–1892	0	-	Folded after1892 season
Fremantle (I)		Fremantleites	Barrack Green,Fremantle	–	1882	1885–1886	1[7]	1886	Folded after1886 season
High School		Students	High School Grounds,Wembley Downs	–	1885	1885–1885	0	-	Folded two rounds into1885 season due to lack of players
Imperials		Blue and Whites	Esplanade Park, Fremantle	WAJFA	1892	1895–1897	0	-	Folded after1897 season
Metropolitan				–	1889	1889-1890	0	-	Replaced byWest Perth following1890 season
Midland Junction		Midlanders, Railways	Midland Junction Oval,Midland	PFRJA		1905–1910 1914–1917	0	-	Folded after1917 season
North Fremantle		Magpies	North Fremantle Oval,North Fremantle	PFRJA	19th century	1901–1915	0	-	Folded after1915 season
Rovers		Rovers, Tigers	None/Unknown[h][i]	–	1882	1885–1899	2[7]	1891	Folded after the first 8 rounds of the1899 season
Unions/ Fremantle (II)*		Ports, Fremantleites	Fremantle Park andFremantle Oval,Fremantle	–	1882	1886–1899	10[7]	1898	Folded after1899 season
Victorian				–	1885	1885-1888	0	-	Merged withWest Australian to formMetropolitan following1888 season
West Australian		Wests[8]	New Recreation Ground,Perth [h][8]	–	1886	1887–1888	0	-	Merged withVictorian to formMetropolitan following1888 season

• Fremantle Football Club (II) was known as Unions Football Club from1886 to1889.

• West Australian (1887–1888) merged withVictorians (1885–1888) in1889 to form theMetropolitan Football Club (1889–1890), which in turn became theWest Perth Football Club in 1891^[9]

^h Up until the turn of the century, there were a limited number of grounds available for use by the clubs, with all clubs sharing the different grounds. As such, theEsplanade Park, Fremantle and Fremantle Park in Fremantle, and the Old Recreation Ground (Wellington Square) and the New Recreation Ground (Esplanade Reserve) in Perth were all used as "home" grounds by the above teams.

ⁱRovers were a "wandering" team – they had no home ground and had drawn players from all over the metropolitan area.

Bassendean	Bassendean Oval East Fremantle Oval Lathlain Park Leederville Oval Fremantle Oval Claremont Oval Rushton Park Arena Joondalup		East Fremantle
Bassendean Oval			East Fremantle Oval
Capacity: 22,000			Capacity: 20,000
Lathlain			Leederville
Lathlain Park			Leederville Oval
Capacity: 20,000			Capacity: 18,000
Fremantle			Claremont
Fremantle Oval			Claremont Oval
Capacity: 17,000			Capacity: 5,000
Mandurah			Joondalup
Rushton Park			Arena Joondalup
Capacity: 10,000			Capacity: 10,000

Although players are paid, the WAFL is considered asemi-professional competition with asalary cap in place and Total Player Payments (TPP) equating to aroundA$245,000. This is the third highest Australian rules football salary cap after the AFL andSANFL. Each WAFL club has 2 squads of 22 players. In 2023, this equates to approximatelyA$5,000 on average for a player per season, however some players may be paid much more than this.

In 2022, the WAFL signed a deal that will see 26 games including all finals matches broadcast on theSeven Network, with the remaining 72 matches to be available for streaming on the AFL's official app and AFL On Demand service.^[12]

Previously in January 2015, the WAFL announced a deal struck with the Seven Network, where under the arrangement, Seven agreed to a three-year deal involving the telecast of 18 home and away matches as well as all Finals matches, broadcast throughoutWestern Australia.^[13] Before this, the WAFL match of the round was broadcast onABC throughout Western Australia every Saturday afternoon during the regular home and away season. Matches were replayed nationwide on-demand from theABC iView service and re-broadcast on theABC2 channel early Friday morning at 2:30 am local time.^[14]

Radio stations which cover the competition includeABC Radio Perth,ABC Radio Grandstand Digital,91.3 SportFM,107.3 HFM andKIX Country Digital.

Since the 2025 season, the WAFL has been sponsored by Western Australia-based logistics service provider Sullivan Logistics, who signed a four-year deal to be naming rights sponsor of the competition.^[15] This ended a three-year period where there no naming rights sponsor which were previously held byOptus (2019–2021),^[16] And before thatMcDonald's (2015–2018)^[17] and earlier stillAAMI (2010–2014).^[18]

Attendance at WAFL matches dropped when each of the two Western Australian based AFL teams entered the league. In recent years, however the attendances have increased slightly, with 2009 recording the first combined annual attendance of more than 200,000 since1994.^[19]

The largest recent crowd was 29,879 at the 2021 WAFL Grand Final between Subiaco and South Fremantle atOptus Stadium. The all-time attendance record is 52,781 in1979 for East Fremantle v South Fremantle atSubiaco Oval.

Patrons at the WAFL pay at the gates.The following are relatively recent attendance figures.

*Includes finals games

Source(s):^{[27][full citation needed]}

Organised football in thePerth andFremantle region of Western Australia dates back to 1881.^{[citation needed]} Back then thoughrugby union was the dominant football code, with only one senior club, "Unions", playing Australian Rules.^{[citation needed]}

In 1883 a second club,Swans, emerged, but Australian Rules' growth remained much subdued compared to that ofVictoria andSouth Australia.^{[citation needed]}

However, in those days many young men of Perth's wealthier families were educated inAdelaide, the capital ofSouth Australia.^{[citation needed]}

On returning home from there they naturally wished to play the sport they had grown up with and no doubt exerted some influence on their less affluent peers as to such.^{[citation needed]} Coincidentally, the press at the time reported there was a growing dissatisfaction with rugby as a spectacle.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1880s, the discoveries of gold, firstly in theKimberley,Pilbara andMurchison regions, led to a dramatic increase in Western Australia's population, including many players and supporters of Australian Rules from the eastern colonies.

In1885 one of the leading rugby clubs,Fremantle, decided to change to Australian Rules. It was quickly joined by three other clubs –Rovers,Victorians, and a team of schoolboys fromPerth High. The schoolboy side lasted just two matches, but the three other sides went on to contest what in retrospect was viewed as the first-ever official Western Australian Football Association (WAFA) premiership, won by Rovers. And virtually overnight Australian Rules football became the dominant code for the spectator as well.^{[citation needed]}

However progress of Australian rules in Western Australia still lagged behind the big football cities of Melbourne, Adelaide and Geelong and is evidenced by the unstable nature of the clubs that participated in the early years.^{[citation needed]}

In1886 a new club Fremantle-based clubUnions joined.^{[citation needed]}

In1887 Fremantle left the WAFA and theWest Australian Football Club joined but they would only play two seasons before they disappeared.

In1890 Unions would rename themselvesFremantle as those involved in the game saw the need to identify themselves with the region they were located in.

1891 saw two new clubs arrive,Centrals andEast Perth, but they would be gone after one season and two seasons respectively.

1898 saw the entry ofEast Fremantle to the league.

1899 would be the last season Fremantle would take part. Despite Unions being the most dominant club in the WAFA up to this point winning the competition 10 times in its 13 years of existence, problems with debt saw the club disappear and some people involved with the old entity formedSouth Fremantle Football Club in its place. Despite the fact that many involved with Fremantle moved onto South Fremantle, the new club is not seen as a continuation of the old and did not lay claim to its records to that date.

1899 was also the last time Rovers would take part. The move to regionalisation which saw Unions take on the old Fremantle's name and colours made it difficult for this club that didn't represent a particular area to attract players. They folded and were immediately replaced byPerth Football Club who were promoted from the Perth First Rate Association.

Major gold discoveries atCoolgardie andKalgoorlie in1892, coupled with a major international economic depression, caused immigration from the eastern colonies to accelerate not only to the Goldfields but also onto Perth. These migrants came from a climate where Australian Rules football was more popular and included a large number of footballers including some celebrated players.

The Goldfields competition (later known as theGoldfields Football League) was hence comparable in status and standard to the Perth competition for many years. (This was shown by the fact that it had a separate seat on theAustralian National Football Council until1919.)

The higher standard of play that followed helped to increase the game's popularity and increased the professionalism of the WAFA which in turn saw a more stable look come to the league which to this point saw teams frequently coming and going, not to mention problems with frequent crowd violence.

By1901, the WAFA had grown to have six teams. Up to this point, five sides at most had been in the competition, and this number had invariably changed from year to year, as clubs came and went. And by1906 there were eight teams.

Recent arrivals East Fremantle became the dominant force in the league winning 11 premierships from1900 to1918.

On 27 March1907, the WAFA was renamed the West Australian Football League (WAFL).^[28]

TheWest Australian State Premiership was awarded to the winner of a contest played between the GNFL premiers and the WAFL premiers. The contest was played intermittently between1903 and 1924 and the winning team accorded the titleChampions of Western Australia.^[29]

Unlike many other sporting competitions, the WAFL didn't go into recess during World War I, although two teams – North Fremantle and Midland Junction – were "casualties" of the war, competing for the last time in1915 and1917 respectively.

1919 saw East Perth win their first premiership, and they would go on to win five in a row.

In1921, the WAFL followed the idea of theSANFL'sMagarey Medal and introduced theSandover Medal, for the fairest and best player over a season, as voted by the field umpires. The medal has been awarded annually ever since.

Claremont-Cottesloe entered the league in1926, bringing the number of teams back to seven. They would rename the club to simplyClaremont a few years later.

On Wednesday 12 October1927, the WAFL was renamed theWestern Australian National Football League (WANFL) – the "national" concept in the name being adopted by the SANFL, TANFL and other leagues when the Australian Football Council became the Australian National Football Council earlier in the year.^[30]

Swan Districts entered the league in1934. The eight competing sides at this point still remain today and are often referred to as the "traditional eight clubs" as opposed to Peel who would join much later on.^{[citation needed]}

Because of World War II, the league only ran an "under age" competition between1942 and1944. However, the three premierships won during this time are given equal status to any other, in official records (East Perth however do not give their1944 premiership win equal status). All clubs competed, with the exception of Swan Districts who could not form a team in1942, although they were back in1943. The Sandover Medal was also presented each year.

Western Australian football was particularly strong during the years immediately following World War II. The state side enjoyed unparalleled success, downing Victoria in each of the first three post war meetings as well as enjoying the better of their encounters with South Australia.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were several attempts at expansion of the league. WANFL secretaryBilly Orr supported the admission of teams fromInglewood andSouth Perth.^[31] In1951 the league established a separaterecruiting district in Inglewood in anticipation of a new club being established at Inglewood Oval.^[32] The Inglewood Football Club was established in1953, with support from three local amateur clubs and former East Perth playerHerbie Screaigh.^[33][34] In the same year it applied for admission to the WANFL reserves competition from the following season.^[35] However, by1954 the league had instead announced that it would expand East Perth's zone to include the Inglewood district.^[36]

In1952, theAvon Valley Football Association applied to enter a team in the WANFL, following concerns about its players being poached by Perth-based teams. It would have been based atNortham's Jubilee Oval.^[37][38] The proposal was raised again in1954 but did not proceed.^[39]

South Fremantle were without dispute one of the strongest teams in Australia during much of the period1947 to1954, not only winning six premierships but also defeating many touring sides from Victoria and South Australia.

From1956 to1961 it would be East Perth's turn to dominate the WAFL with them featuring in all six Grand Finals of this period and coming out with three victories. Their team featuredGraham Farmer who would leave at the end of the1961 season and carve out a reputation in the VFL as one of the game's greatest ever players.

The 1960s saw crowds get bigger and bigger, as WAFL football captured the hearts and minds of the WA public like never before, and in the 1970s and early 1980s it was easily the biggest show in town.

However, during this period more and more star WAFL players were looking to head to theVictorian Football League (VFL), enticed by the bigger money and the fact that it was more and more gaining a reputation as the "big" league.

This is perhaps best evidenced in that Victoria (i.e. the VFL representative team) had by far the best record in interstate games for a long time. But in1977, when the first properState of Origin match was played, it saw Western Australia inflict its biggest defeat on Victoria.

East Perth's1961 loss to Swan Districts would see that side's first-ever premiership. Captain/coached byHaydn Bunton, Jr., they became the team of the early 1960s when they followed it up in1962 and1963 to make it three in a row.

The dominating sides of the late 1960s and early 1970s were the three Perth teams. Perth won three in a row from1966 to1968, and West Perth won in1969 and1971 captained and coached by Graham Farmer who had returned from over east. All five of these grand final wins came at the expense of East Perth who earned the bridesmaid tag in this era. However East Perth finally won through in the1972 grand final.

After1972 the competition was more evenly matched with every team winning a grand final over the next 10 years.

At this time crowds were as big as they ever were.^{[citation needed]} The1979 grand final was played before a record crowd of 52,781 and saw East Fremantle defeat South Fremantle.

In1980, the WANFL dropped the "N (National)" and the "ern" from the "West" and reverted to being called the WAFL.

At the end of the1980 season East Perth put in an application to join the VFL. The offer was withdrawn.

Crowds had been buoyed by State of Origin football that saw Western Australia's best players return home briefly, but this effect was short lived. Interest in the WAFL began a slow decline, as it became increasingly obvious that even larger numbers of the WAFL's best players were going to head east.

By1983 the management of the WAFL itself acknowledged that economic crisis loomed. They approached the state government for financial aid, and were rewarded with a grant ofA$1.9 million, equivalent toA$6.8 million in 2022. In response, the government wanted a full-scale investigation into the likely future financial demands of football.

This led to the formation of the West Australian Football Commission who functioned independently of the WAFL.

In1986 the decision had been made that the WAFL needed to become involved in helping the VFL, where several clubs were also struggling financially, to become national.

Against a backdrop in which several WAFL clubs were looking to enter the VFL or in which a struggling Victorian club may be relocated to Perth, the WAFL decided to hastily form a new club to enter the VFL such that they could retain control of a West Australian presence in the situation.

Meanwhile, in the league Swan Districts won another hat-trick of premierships from1982 to1984. East Fremantle, the WAFL's most successful club, won the centenary premiership in1985 and in1986 Subiaco had the honour to be the last club to win the premiership prior to Western Australia's participation in the national league.

TheWest Coast Eagles were formed and competed in the VFL for the first time in1987 (the VFL was renamed theAFL in 1990).

With many of Western Australia's best players now competing in a team that represented Western Australia on a national scale, it was suddenly apparent that the WAFL was not the prime focus of the football public as crowds and media attention centred on the 'national' league.

In1990 the league was renamed theWestern Australian State Football League, but it had reverted to WAFL by1991.

Another locally based AFL team, theFremantle Football Club were formed in1994, and this cemented the position of WAFL as a second-class competition. (Indeed, the1991 introduction of theAdelaide Crows to theVFL/AFL meant that theSANFL was experiencing a similar decline to the WAFL.)

WAFL clubs have struggled ever since with their sudden demise from being technically equal to any VFL club, to feeder club status. However, they have enjoyed some benefits, such as the funds flowing from the WA-based AFL teams and the influx of talented players from other states, attempting to make a name for themselves.

In1997,Peel Thunder – somewhat controversially – became the ninth WAFL club. Throughout their brief history, they struggled to compete with the traditional eight clubs, which were generally opposed to their presence. This was partly because having an odd number of teams forced one team to have a bye each week. Also in1997, the league was renamedWestar Rules,^[40] in an attempt to revamp its image. The name again reverted to WAFL in2001, when the "Fong Report" declared "Westar Rules" was a painfully contrived name,^[41] although the new 1997 logo was retained.

Recent years have seen the WAFL stabilise itself as a league a step down from theAFL. Having the best football players all playing in the AFL has lessened the standard of play; however this has recovered somewhat, with retired or delisted AFL players returning and young players coming through. It is becoming fairly common, however, for young players to be drafted as 17- or 18-year-olds directly to the AFL and not play in the WAFL football for more than a few games.

Attendances have recovered slightly and in 2004, the league posted a total attendance of 202,797.^[26] The total attendance, including AFL games was a record 1,030,000.

In 2019 the WAFL expanded to a 10-club competition, with the introduction of West Coast Eagles Reserves.^{[citation needed]}

While the WAFL has not been as keen as the SANFL to include teams from other states, there have been proposals to include teams from regions unwanted by the AFL, and even to serve as a second-tier national league.

The most pushed for expansion team was to be fromDarwin, Northern Territory, formed as a representative club of theNorthern Territory Football League,^[42] howeverthe NT team opted to join theQueensland Australian Football League for the 2009 season, and moved to the newly createdNorth East Australian Football League in2011 after the top divisions of the Queensland AFL andAFL Canberra merged.

In 2019, the WAFL partnered with theWest Australian Women's Football League to create a new women's state league, theWAFL Women's. The league is run adjacent to the WAFL premiership.^[43]

The following awards are or were awarded each season:

• TheWAFL Premiership Cup for the winner of the WAFL Grand Final.
• TheSandover Medal for the fairest & best player(s) in the WAFL.
• TheSimpson Medal for the best players in the WAFL Grand Final.
• TheBernie Naylor Medal for the leading goalkicker during the home and away season.
• TheJJ Leonard Medal for the best coach during the season.
• TheMontgomery Medal for the best field umpire during the season.
• TheRP Rodriguez Shield for the best overall team, combining league, reserves and colts games.Click here for a list of winners.
• ThePrendergast Medal for the fairest & best player(s) in the reserves.
• TheJack Clarke Medal for the fairest & best player(s) in the colts.
• TheWA State Premiership (1903–24), awarded to the winner of a match between the WAFA/WAFL premiers and theGFA/GFL premiers.

East Fremantle has won the most premierships, with 30, most recently in 2023.West Perth rank second with 20 premierships, the most recent in 2022.

The first premiership was awarded in1885, and was won by theRovers Football Club, which disbanded in1899.

Subiaco andSwan Districts have the equal most wooden spoons, with 21.Swan Districts most recent wooden spoon was in 2019, whileSubiaco had their most recent in1996.

The most recent team to receive the wooden spoon (2024) areWest Coast Eagles, with its 4th wooden spoon.

• Highest score: 40.18 (258) – South Fremantle v West Perth 12.6 (78) atFremantle Oval, Round 21,1981
• Lowest score (1898 onwards):

0.0 (0) – Subiaco v South Fremantle 12.23 (95) atNorth Fremantle Oval, 4 August1906

0.0 (0) – Peel Thunder v Claremont 17.15 (117) at Rushton Park, 2004^[a]

• Most premierships (club): 30 – East Fremantle
• Most "wooden spoons": 21 – Subiaco & Swan Districts
• Most successive finals appearances: 36 – East Fremantle (1916–1951)
• Most consecutive unbeaten games: 35 – East Fremantle (1945–1947)
• Most consecutive winless games: 27 – Subiaco (1903–1905)
• Most Sandover Medals (club): 18 (East Perth)
• Most Bernie Naylor Medals/Leading Goalkicker Awards (club): 21 (Subiaco)
• Highest attendance: 52,781 atSubiaco Oval,1979 WAFL Grand Final, East Fremantle v South Fremantle

• Most games: 367 –Mel Whinnen (West Perth)^[b]
• Most consecutive games: 218 –Joel Cornelius (Swan Districts),1995–2006
• Most goals: 1211 –Austin Robertson, Jr. (Subiaco)
• Most goals in a season: 167 –Bernie Naylor (South Fremantle),1953
• Most goals in a game: 23 –Bernie Naylor (South Fremantle) vs.Subiaco,1953
• Most Sandover Medals (player): 4 –Bill Walker (Swan Districts),1965–1967,1970
• Most Bernie Naylor Medals/Leading Goalkicker Awards (player): 8 –Austin Robertson, Jr. (Subiaco),1962;1964–1965;1968–1972
• Oldest player: 44 years
• Youngest player: 14 years, 25 days,Stan Hussey (Centrals),1891

On 12 March 2004, aWest Australian Football Hall of Fame was formed when 81 former players, coaches, umpires, administrators and media representatives were inducted. More people have been inducted every year since then, and as of 2017, there are sixteen who have been elevated tolegend status^[vague]:

In March 2012, theTop 25 players over the Past 25 Years were announced, to recognise the WAFL performances of players, rather than the performances of Western Australian players in the AFL. The judges wereThe West Australian's sports reporterRoss Lewis,Football Budget editorTracey Lewis,Claremont CEOTodd Shimmon, former playersClint Roberts,Bill Monaghan,Todd Ridley plus historiansGreg Wardell-Johnson andSteve Davies.^[44]

The WAFL has run a simultaneous reserves competition and colts (under-19s) competition for its clubs since1925 and1957 respectively. A fourths-grade premiership was held between1965 and1974.^[45] A seniorwomen's competition was inaugurated in 2019.

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