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The West Australian State PremiershipSeveral different names were used in contemporary sources for the matches, including "state premiership", "state championship" and "the football championship". was an
Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
match contested intermittently between 1902 and 1924 between the premiers of the
Western Australian Football Association 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, ...
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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, ...
(WAFA / WAFL) and the Goldfields Football Association /
Goldfields Football League The Goldfields Football League is an Australian rules football league based in the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Founded in 1896 as Hannans District Football Association, the league enjoyed a seat and full voting rights on the Australi ...
(GFA / GFL).The coastal league was known as the Western Australian Football Association from 1885–1907, and as the West Australian Football League (WAFL) from 1908–30. The goldfields league was known as the Goldfields Football Association (GFA) from 1901–07 and again from 1920–25, and as the Goldfields Football League (GFL) from 1908–19.


List of winners

won the most championships overall, winning five: 1902, 1904, 1906, 1909 and 1910:


See also

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Australian rules football in the Goldfields region of Western Australia Australian rules football has been played in the Goldfields region of Western Australia since the late 1890s, when the Western Australian gold rush brought an influx of immigrants from Victoria and South Australia, bringing the sport with them. ...
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Australian rules football in Western Australia Australian rules football in Western Australia (WA) is the most popular sport in the state and Western Australia has the second highest number of Australian rules football participants of any state. Western Australia was the last Australian col ...
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Tasmanian State Premiership The Tasmanian State Premiership was an Australian rules football tournament which was contested at the conclusion of the season, initially between the reigning Tasmanian Football League (TFL/TANFL) and Northern Tasmanian Football Association (18 ...
, a similar competition held in Tasmania from 1904–78


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{{DEFAULTSORT:State Premiership Australian rules football competitions in Western Australia Australian rules football in Western Australia Recurring sporting events established in 1902