The 2014 WAFL season was the 130th season of the various incarnations 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). The season began on 22 March 2014 and concluded on 21 September 2014 with the 2014 WAFL Grand Final. West Perth entered the season as reigning premiers after defeating

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by 49 points in the

2013 WAFL Grand Final The 2013 WAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Perth Football Club and the East Perth Football Club on Sunday 22 September 2013 at Patersons Stadium, to determine the premier team of the West Australian ...

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. The 2014 season was the first to feature

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’s professional

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clubs West Coast and Fremantle engage in direct alignments with

and

Peel Thunder The Peel Thunder Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The team is based in Mandurah, Western Australia, with their home ground being Rushton Park. The ...

respectively. Subiaco were the premiers for the 2014 season, after they defeated favourites

by 16 points at

Clubs

Premiership season fixtures

Source
WAFL 2014 season fixtures and results
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Round 1

After their big win, Perth found themselves on top of the ladder for the first time since the corresponding fixture of 2008. Over the next 22 rounds of football the Demons occupied all nine spots on the WAFL league ladder, becoming the first team to achieve this. Their ladder positions after each round were 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9.

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

Foxtel Cup

The two 2013 Grand Finalists West Perth and

were invited to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition in 2014. Their performances are shown below:

Round 1

Semi-finals

Grand Final

State game

The WAFL representative team competed against the

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(NEAFL) representative team on May 24 in Sydney.

Awards

* 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 b ...

(awarded to the fairest and best player of the home and away season) was won by Aaron Black (), who polled 47 votes, only 1 vote ahead of Luke Blackwell () and Shane Nelson (). * 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 the leading goalkicker in the home and away season) was won by Ben Saunders (), who kicked 59 goals in 20 home and away matches. * Brian Dawson () received the JJ Leonard Medal as the Coach of the Year after guiding the Royals to a second straight grand final, and his fourth in five seasons as a league coach. * The Subiaco Football Club were awarded the Rodriguez Shield, as the team with the best combined record at league, reserves and senior colts level in the 2014 season. * The Reserves premiership was won by . They defeated on a score of 5.9 (39) def. 3.7 (25). * The Colts premiership was won by . They defeated on a score of 11.9 (75) def. 7.13 (55).

References

External links

Official WAFL website
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