The 2011 WAFL season was the 127th 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, ...

and its various incarnations. The season opened on 19 March, with defeating by 15 points at Steel Blue Oval, and concluded with the

2011 WAFL Grand Final 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, to determine the premier team of the West Australian Footba ...

, with defeating by 56 points. The 2011

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 won by

Luke Blackwell Luke Blackwell (born 9 November 1986 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian rules footballer. He formerly played for Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL), and for Claremont in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) where he ...

of . The top three teams – Claremont, Subiaco and – qualified for the 2012 Foxtel Cup.

Rule changes

The WAFL implemented two rule changes for the 2011 season, to conform with similar rules changes in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...

(AFL):WAFL law changes for season 2011
– wafootball.com.au. 19 January 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011. * The advantage rule was altered to put the onus on the player rather than the umpire to decide whether they can take the advantage from a

free kick A free kick is an action used in several codes of football to restart play with the kicking of a ball into the field of play. Association football In association football, the free kick is a method of restarting the game following an offence ...

. * The rough conduct rule was altered to make any player who makes forceful contact to the head of another player while bumping is liable to suspension, unless the player was (a) contesting the ball and did not have a reasonable alternative way to contest the ball or (b) the contact was caused by circumstances outside the control of the player that could not reasonably be foreseen.

Rule changes

Clubs

Season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6 (Anzac Day)

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12 (Foundation Day)

Round 13

State game

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Round 23

Round 24

Finals series

Semi-finals

Preliminary final

Grand Final

Ladder

References