WAFL Women's (WAFLW) is an

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league based in

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, Western Australia. The WAFLW is the premier women's football competition in

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and is contested by eight teams, all of whom are owned and operated by clubs in the men's

West Australian Football League The West Australian Football League (WAFL "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") 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 f ...

(WAFL). The league was established in 2018 by the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC) and West Australian Women's Football League (WAWFL), the latter having been the governing body and league for women's football in the state from 1987 to 2018. The competition has been singularly overseen by the WAFC after the WAWFL was dissolved in 2021. The league runs from March to August, usually running partially concurrently with the

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(AFLW). It is the second primary women's football competition for West Australian footballers underneath the semi-professional national competition, and one of the three elite leagues in women's Australian rules football (the AFLW, SANFLW and WAFLW).

Clubs

Five of the ten WAFL clubs fielded teams in the inaugural 2019 WAFLW season: Claremont, East Fremantle, Peel Thunder, Subiaco and Swan Districts. South Fremantle joined the league the following year, with West Perth joining the league in 2022. East Perth joined the league in 2023. Perth became the final WAFL club to enter the league in 2025. Neither of the state's two AFL teams (

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and West Coast) field teams in the league: Fremantle was an AFLW foundation club in 2017, while West Coast entered the AFLW in 2019 after playing scratch matches in 2017–2018.

Honours

Premiers

* 2019: * 2020: * 2021: * 2022: * 2023: * 2024:

Dhara Kerr Award

* 2019:

Hayley Miller Hayley Miller (born 3 February 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's competition. Miller won the Fremantle fairest and best and leading goalkicker awards in season 6 and was named ...

& Danika Pisconeri * 2020: Danika Pisconeri * 2021: Ella Smith * 2022: Sharon Wong * 2023: Jayme Harken * 2024: Jayme Harken

References

External links

* {{West Australian Football League Women's Australian rules football leagues in Australia 2019 establishments in Australia Sports leagues established in 2019 Women's sport in Western Australia