Only a week before Fremantle make their second AFL grand final appearance in club history, a player who lined up in their first starred in the Perth Football League men’s A-grade season decider.
Josh Kempton
A pair of Perth Football League sides were disqualified from competing in grand finals at the weekend. Here’s why.
A pair of 2026’s most thrilling WA country football grand finals both played out at the weekend — and they ended with two clubs breaking lengthy premiership droughts.
A two-time AFL premiership player will take charge of a club in one of the State’s best country football leagues as their coach from next season.
A Perth Football League player managed to apply the final touch to a remarkable individual season on Saturday — and it was clearly to the delight of his entire club.
Scotch won back the Public Schools Association’s Alcock Cup with a 17-point victory in their top-of-the-table clash with Aquinas on Saturday.
WA Country were on the wrong end of a nine-point loss to their South Australian counterparts in their clash at Barossa Park on Saturday night.
West Coast champions Josh Kennedy and Lewis Jetta produced plenty of highlights for thousands of fans who headed to Denmark’s McLean Park on Saturday to take in their country football comebacks.
Peel claimed their first Country Championships division one title in nearly a decade by toppling back-to-back carnival winners South West in the grand final at Fremantle Community Bank Oval on Sunday.
The cream of the crop from the State’s country football leagues will assemble later this week for the Country Championships — and we’ve taken a look at a player to watch from every competing league.
He might be well into his 40s, but a former Fremantle gun is still kicking goals for fun down in the Great Southern.
The Perth Football League’s representative sides have claimed bragging rights over the State’s best country footballers by winning both of their games at HIF Health Insurance Oval on Friday night.
The best local footballers from right around Western Australia will descend on HIF Health Insurance Oval in Joondalup on Friday night for a pair of representative clashes.
With most of WA’s country football leagues at or approaching the halfway point of their season, there are 12 teams around the State’s regions who are yet to taste defeat so far in 2026.
Lewis Jetta has regularly played local football since the end of his brilliant AFL career, and the West Coast premiership star featured for a new club on Saturday.
The days of a single player kicking 100 goals in a single season may well have been and gone at AFL level, but the old-school full-forward is alive and well in WA’s country football leagues.
WA’s first local football premiership of 2026 has been won with the completion of a remarkable reversal in fortunes.
Jackson Harwood has retained his title as the coach of the Perth Football League representative side ahead of their clash with Country Football WA later this year.
With nearly all of WA’s country football leagues now under way for the 2026 season, we have taken on the task of trying to pick out some early premiership favourites.
He did not finish with the haul of goals some may have expected, but Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin’s once-in-a-lifetime footballing return to his junior club was a rousing success.
The country coach preparing to come up against WA’s greatest-ever goal-kicker in his football comeback says he’s got plenty of plans in place for Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin.
Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin will not be the only AFL champion to feature in WA local football at the weekend, with a Brownlow medallist for set to line up for a Perth side at the weekend.
Ahead of Buddy Franklin’s return to Dowerin on Saturday, The West Australian has taken a look at the country football cameos from some of WA’s biggest stars.
Reigning Perth Football League premiers North Beach have added another big recruit ahead of the 2026 campaign, with a former Fremantle and Carlton forward cleared to the Tigers.
