The 1994 WAFL season was the 110th season of the
West Australian Football League
The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from March to September, ...
in its various incarnations.
It was the final season before, to stem fears of dominance
by the Eagles of the AFL, a second Western Australian team,
the Fremantle Dockers was added to the national competition. Along with financial difficulties faced by perennial stragglers Perth and to a lesser extent West Perth, East Perth, Swan Districts and on-field power club Claremont,
[See Casey, Kevin (1995); ''The Tigers’ Tale: the origins and history of the Claremont Football Club'', p. 201. ] this made the league consider substantial measures to deal with the declining popularity of the competition. The 1994 season did see two home-and-away attendances of over ten thousand for the last time in the competition's history.
With president Tom James admitting that if the Falcons remained based in the aging districts of Daglish and Shenton Park, the club would be extinct by 2000,
[Casellas, Ken; ‘Falcons Nestled in Promised Land’; '']The West Australian
''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuousl ...
'', 25 April 1994, p. 61 West Perth took the league to the rapidly growing northwestern suburbs of the city by moving to Arena Joondalup in a newly developing region of the city, vacating
Leederville Oval
Leederville Oval (known as Medibank Stadium under a naming rights agreement between 2006 and 2016) is an Australian rules football ground located in Leederville, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The ground is used as a home ground by two c ...
for six seasons until the redevelopment of Perth Oval as a rectangular soccer field
for the Perth Glory forced the Falcons’ traditional rivals East Perth to move there. The 1994 season also saw the last WAFL games at the Western Australian Cricket Association Ground, due to redevelopment of the drainage and grandstands of Subiaco Oval during this and the early part of the 1995 season.
Another notable feature was the first converts to Australian Rules from
basketball
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,
Daniel Bandy
Daniel Bandy (born 18 November 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played as a ruckman (football), ruckman for Fremantle Football Club, Fremantle and the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League (AFL). He last played for ...
and Leon Harris, who debuted for Perth and East Perth respectively. Bandy was to be a mainstay for the Dockers during their early years in the AFL.
Home-and-away season
Round 1 (Easter weekend)
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4 (Anzac Day)
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10 (Foundation Day)
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Ladder
Finals
Elimination and Qualifying Finals
Semi-finals
Preliminary final
Grand Final
References
External links
Official WAFL websiteWest Australian Football League Season 1994
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