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The year of 1993 saw relatively little premiership points separate the finalists, and although West Coast were in the mix, the team never fully clicked across the season. In 1994 the Eagles again won the minor premiership at the end of the home and away season – the club's second McClelland Trophy .
The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known as the Victorian Football League.
But the last term was all the Eagles, as they stormed home and steamrolled the Cats, kicking 8 final quarter goals to 1, winning the match by 80 points, with 20.23 (143) being the Eagles' highest score of the year. The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to West Coast's Dean Kemp for being judged the best player afield, with 23 disposals and 2 goals.
Dom Sheed holding the premiership cup of the 2018 AFL Grand Final, the fourth grand final won by West Coast. This is a list of records and statistics achieved by the West Coast Eagles in the VFL/AFL from their debut in 1987.
Claremont premiership side 1987; West Coast Eagles Rookie of the Year 1988; VFL Team of the Year 1989; 2× West Coast Club Champion 1989, 1999; 3× All-Australian team 1991, 1993, 1994; 2× West Coast premiership side 1992, 1994; West Coast Best Clubman Award 1994; Western Australia State of Origin captain 1996, 1997; West Coast captain 1999–2000
The same year saw the West Coast Eagles become the first non-Victorian club to reach the grand final, which was won by Hawthorn. The Eagles would then win the premiership in 1992 and 1994. In 1994, Fremantle obtained an AFL licence and joined the AFL in 1995, becoming the fifth non-Victorian club, and the second from Western Australia. [30]
The 1992 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the West Coast Eagles and the Geelong Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 26 September 1992.
In 1990, he won the West Coast Eagles Club Champion Award. He was a member of the 1992 and 1994 WCE premiership teams, as well as the 1996 Claremont premiership team in the WAFL . As a player, Lewis was considered as highly skilled - his passing skills were amongst the best in the AFL.