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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.
The West Coast Eagles and Sydney Swans line up for the Australian national anthem at the 2005 Grand Final. The West Coast Eagles is an Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia, currently playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in 1986, and played its first season in the competition in 1987.
In 2019, the West Coast Eagles joined the Western Australian Football League (WAFL) for the first time. They were forced to withdraw from that league in 2020 due to the AFL creating a rule that AFL-listed players cannot play in any state-based leagues, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] West Coast have since rejoined the WAFL in 2021. [6]
Chris Mainwaring, a former West Coast Eagles player and close friend of Cousins, died of a drug overdose on 1 October 2007. [78] Cousins received renewed media attention, as he was the last person to see Mainwaring alive, having visited him twice on the night of his death to provide emotional support and deliver food. [ 79 ]
In October 2018, it was announced that the West Australian Football League (WAFL) had decided to allow the West Coast Eagles to enter a reserve team into that competition starting in 2019, after the idea was unanimously endorsed by a meeting of WAFL club presidents. The Eagles paid a one-off licence fee of $90,000, which was split evenly ...
In 2006, Satterley was awarded the General Division Australia Day Honour "for service to urban development and renewal programs, to the community through support for charitable and medical research organizations, and to sport." He was a number one ticket holder for the West Coast Eagles in 2007-8.
The West Coast Eagles (abbreviated as Eagles) is an AFL Women's team based in Perth, Western Australia.. The team is associated with the West Coast Eagles (AFL Men's) team and in September 2017 was granted a license by the AFL to compete in the league from the start of the 2020 season.
Shannon Hurn was West Coast's captain from 2014 to 2019. The West Coast Eagles are a football club in the Australian Football League and AFL Women's.The club is based in Western Australia and has won the AFL premiership four times, in 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2018.