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The Western Australia Australian rules football team is the state representative side of Western Australia in the sport of Australian rules football.. Western Australia has a proud history in interstate football, having a successful historical record and winning three Australian Championships and a State of Origin Carnival Championship, in the State of Origin era.
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With many of Western Australia's best players now competing in a team that represented Western Australia on a national scale, it was suddenly apparent that the WAFL was now a second-class competition. In 1990 the state league was renamed the Western Australian State Football League, but it had reverted to WAFL by 1991.
The West Australian Football League (WAFL / ˈ w ɒ f ə l / "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, in Western Australia.The league currently consists of ten teams, which play each other in a 20-round season usually lasting from April to September, with the top five teams playing off in a finals series, culminating in a Grand Final.
Association Football (Soccer) in Western Australia Perth Glory's home ground NIB Stadium in March 2015 Governing body Football West First played 1896, Perth Registered players 117,248 (adult) 61,834 (child) Audience records Single match 56,371 In Western Australia (WA), soccer is the most participated code of football, though it is a distant second in overall interest behind Australian rules ...
Australian rules football is the third most played sport in Western Australia, with its popularity elevated due to excellent marketing and lobbying at state and national level. Western Australia has two teams in the national league: the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club (the "Fremantle Dockers").
NPL WA traces its origin to the formation of a league by the Perth British Football Association in 1896. [1] By the 1950s, the association was known as the Western Australian Soccer Football Association (WASFA). In, 1960 eight teams formed their own association, the Soccer Federation of Western Australia (SFWA).
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.