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West Australian Football - a brief history
The West Australian Football League (WAFL) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth. The WAFL is the second-most popular league in the state, behind the nationwide Australian Football League (AFL). The league currently consists of nine teams, which play each other in a 24-round season usually lasting from March to September, with the top four teams playing off in a finals series, culminating in a Grand Final. The league also runs reserves and colts (under-19) competitions.
The WAFL was founded in 1885 as the West Australian Football Association (WAFA), and has undergone a variety of name changes since then, re-adopting its current name in 2001. For most of its existence, the league was considered one of the traditional "big three" Australian rules football leagues, along with the Victorian Football League (VFL) and South Australian National Football League (SANFL). However, since the introduction of two Western Australia-based clubs into the VFL (later renamed the Australian Football League) – the West Coast Eagles in 1987 and the Fremantle Football Club in 1995 – the popularity and standard of the league has decreased to the point where it is considered a feeder competition to the AFL.
The WAFL is currently affiliated with the two Western Australia-based AFL clubs, the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Dockers. Players who are not selected to play with their respective AFL clubs instead play for allocated clubs in the WAFL. The competition is governed by the West Australian Football Commission, and based at Subiaco Oval.
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TEAM RECORDS
Highest score: 40.18 (258) - South Fremantle v West Perth 12.6 (78) at Fremantle Oval, Round 21, 1981
Lowest score: 0.0 (0) - West Perth v Rovers, 1895 0.0 (0) - Subiaco v South Fremantle 12.23 (95) at North Fremantle Oval, 4 August 1906
Most premierships (club): 29 - East Fremantle Most "wooden spoons": 20 - Subiaco
Most successive finals appearances: 36 - East Fremantle (1916–51) Most consecutive unbeaten games: 35 - East Fremantle (1945–47)
Most consecutive winless games: 34 - Subiaco (1903–05)
Most Sandover Medals (club): 18 (East Perth)
Most Bernie Naylor Medals/Leading Goalkicker Awards (club): 21 (Subiaco)
Highest attendance: 52,781 at Subiaco Oval, 1979 WAFL Grand Final between East Fremantle and South Fremantle
INDIVIDUAL RECORDS
Most games: 371 - Mel Whinnen (West Perth)
Most consecutive games: 218 - Joel Cornelius (Swan Districts), 1995–2006
Most goals: 1278 - Austin Robertson, Jr. (Subiaco)
Most goals in a season: 167 - Bernie Naylor (South Fremantle), 1953
Most goals in a game: 23 - Bernie Naylor (South Fremantle) vs. Subiaco, 1953
Most Sandover Medals (player): 4 - Bill Walker (Swan Districts), 1965–67; 1970
Most Bernie Naylor Medals/Leading Goalkicker Awards (player): 8 - Austin Robertson, Jr. (Subiaco), 1962; 1964–65; 1968–72
Oldest player: 44 years, 49 days – Wally Watts (Midland Junction) v Subiaco, 4 August 1916
Youngest player: 14 years, 25 days - Stan Hussey (Centrals) - first game 1891
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