The 1998 Westar Rules season was the second season of ‘Westar Rules’ and the 114th season of the various incarnations of senior football in Perth. The season opened on 29 March and concluded on 20 September with the
1998 Westar Rules Grand Final contested between and .
The
Sandover Medal
The Sandover Medal is an Australian rules football award, given annually since 1921 to the fairest and best player in the West Australian Football League. The award was donated by Alfred Sandover M.B.E., a prominent Perth hardware merchant and be ...
was awarded to
Adrian Bromage
Adrian Stuart Bromage (born 11 May 1971) is a businessman and former Australian rules footballer who most notably played for in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) during the 1990s. He was the winner of the Sandover Medal for the bes ...
().
Todd Ridley
Todd Ridley (born 11 February 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played mainly as a Australian rules football positions#Full forward, full forward. He is notable for kicking Fremantle Football Club's first goal in the Australian ...
() won the
Bernie Naylor Medal
The Bernie Naylor Medal is an Australian rules football award which is given to the leading goalkicker at the end of each home and away season in the West Australian Football League. It is named after South Fremantle full-forward Bernie Naylor. Be ...
for kicking the most goals during the home-and-away rounds.
East Fremantle achieved its best record since its unique
perfect season
A perfect season is a sports season, including any requisite playoff portion, in which a team remains and finishes undefeated and untied. The feat is extremely rare at the professional level of any team sport, and has occurred more commonly at the ...
of 1946, winning all except its fourth and fifth games and achieving an unbeaten run of sixteen games rivalled since the perfect season only by Claremont
in 1987 who was unbeaten for twenty-one games after having won the Grand Final.
Home-and-away season
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Round 23
Ladder
Finals series
Semi-finals
Preliminary final
Grand Final
References
External links
Official WAFL websiteWestar Rules Season 1998
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West Australian Football League seasons
Westar Rules
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 ...