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WAFL Women's

WAFL Women's
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 WAFL Women's season
SportAustralian rules football
Founded2018
First season2019
Owner(s)WAFC, WAWFL (until 2021)
No. of teams8
CountryAustralia
Most recent
champion(s)		Claremont (2nd premiership)
Most titlesPeel Thunder, East Fremantle, Claremont (2 premierships)
TV partner(s)Seven Network (Grand Final only)
Sponsor(s)Optus
Official websitewafl.com.au

WAFL Women's (WAFLW) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFLW is the premier women's football competition in Western Australia, and from 2023 is contested by eight teams owned and operated by clubs in the men's West Australian Football League (WAFL).

The league was established in 2018 by the West Australian Football Commission and West Australian Women's Football League, the latter having been the governing body and league for women's football in the state from 1987 to 2018,[1] and has been run by the WAFC after the WAWFL was dissolved in 2021.

The league runs from February to August, and ran partially concurrently with the AFL Women's (AFLW) until Season 7 of the AFLW. It is also the second primary women's football competition for West Australian footballers underneath the semi-professional national competition, and one of the three elite leagues in women's Australian rules football (the AFLW, SANFLW and WAFLW).

Clubs

Five of the ten WAFL clubs fielded teams in the inaugural 2019 WAFLW season: Claremont, East Fremantle, Peel Thunder, Subiaco and Swan Districts.

South Fremantle joined the league the following year,[2] with West Perth joining the league in 2022.[3] East Perth joined the league in 2023.[4]

Neither of the state's two AFL teams (Fremantle and West Coast) field teams in the league: Fremantle was an AFLW foundation club in 2017, while West Coast entered the AFLW in 2019 after playing scratch matches in 2017–2018.

Club Nickname Home venue Est. First WAFLW
season 		WAFLW
seasons 		WAFLW
premierships 		Most
recent
Claremont Tigers Claremont Oval 1906 2019 6 2 2024
East Fremantle Sharks East Fremantle Oval 1898 2019 6 2 2023
East Perth Royals Leederville Oval 1902 2023 2 — —
Peel Thunder Rushton Park 1996 2019 6 2 2021
South Fremantle Bulldogs Fremantle Oval 1900 2020 5 — —
Subiaco Lions Leederville Oval 1896 2019 6 — —
Swan Districts Swans Bassendean Oval 1932 2019 6 — —
West Perth Falcons Arena Joondalup 1891 2022 3 — —

Future expansion

Perth intend to join the WAFLW in 2026,[5] after the club's long-running financial and administrative problems and an exodus of players and officials saw their women's team go into recess at the end of 2018.

South Western Football League officials have also called for the WAFLW to admit an SWFL composite team to the league.[6] Incorrect link

Honours

Premiers

Main article: List of WAFL Women's premiers

Dhara Kerr Award

Main article: Dhara Kerr Award

References

  1. ^ "About us". West Australian Women's Football League.
  2. ^ "South Fremantle to enter 2020 Optus WAFLW competition". West Australian Football Commission. 29 June 2020.
  3. ^ Eliza Reilly (23 January 2022). "West Perth league debut, rivalries and finals headline WAFLW fixture release". The West Australian.
  4. ^ A royal reception for East Perth women's team in 2023
  5. ^ Perth FC announce pathway in women's football
  6. ^ Strong calls for SWFL women's team to join WAFLW
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