The 2011 WAFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football game contested between the
Claremont Football Club and the
Subiaco Football Club, on 25 September 2011 at
Patersons Stadium
Subiaco Oval (; nicknamed Subi) was a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia, located in the suburb of Subiaco. It was opened in 1908 and closed in 2017 after the completion of the new Perth Stadium in Burswood.
Subiaco Oval was the high ...
, to determine the premier team 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 ...
(WAFL) for the
2011 season. Claremont won the game by 56 points, 19.13 (127) to 10.11 (71), with
Beau Wilkes
Beau Maister (born 20 March 1986 as Beau Wilkes) is an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda Football Club, St Kilda and the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the Claremont Football Club in the Wes ...
of Claremont winning the
Simpson Medal
The Simpson Medal is an individual prize awarded for Australian rules football in Western Australia. The medal has been donated by Dr Fred Simpson and family since 1945.
Simpson Medals are currently awarded to the following players:
*The best pl ...
as
best on ground. The attendance of 15,459 was the lowest since 8,991 people attended the 1944 Grand Final.
Premiers
– wafl.com.au. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
Lead-up to the grand final
The two teams had previously met twice in the season, with Claremont winning both encounters.
Claremont
Claremont had lost by one point to in the previous year's Grand Final, and finished minor premiers in 2011, winning fifteen games and losing five. The club won eight of their first ten matches.
Subiaco
The club won only three of their first ten matches, but drew back later in the season to win nine of their last ten matches, including the first semi-final, against , and preliminary final, against .
Teams
Claremont
Subiaco
Match
References
{{WAFL Grand Finals
West Australian Football League Grand Finals
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