The WA Football Umpires is proud to announce it has secured a $4,000 grant through the South32 Worsley Alumina Community Grants Program to support its Empowering Regional Umpires project. This funding directly assisted young and female football umpires from across regional Western Australia to participate in the 2025 Nutrien Ag Solutions Women’s Country Championships, that took place in Bunbury on the 2nd to 3rd of October. As a part of the grant, WA Football Umpiring donated a projector , Projector screen and a Footy Coaching mat to the SWFL umpires association. It marks a significant step forward in creating equitable..

Two West Australians have embraced the opportunity to take part in the Bachar Houli Foundation’s National Senior Boys Academy provided a camp in Melbourne during AFL Grand Final Week. The Academy is a year-long program delivered to 28 of the country’s most promising Islamic male footballers aged 15 to 18-years-old. The program provides an integrated approach to advanced football development, peak performance, leadership and identity. Delivered by a team of experienced coaches and mentors, the Academy is a recognised pathway for emerging talent to reach their potential on and off the field. The Academy's coaching and mentoring panel includes three-time Richmond..

South West have kept their remarkable streak of Nutrien Ag Solutions Women’s Country Football Championship titles going after a 21-point grand final victory against Great Northern under lights at Hands Oval in Bunbury on Friday night. The SWFL made it six titles from as many attempts, continuing their reign as the best women’s competition in country WA. It wasn’t all one-way traffic though with Great Northern hanging in there and the game not beyond doubt until Gemma Hill’s second major with three minutes to go. Carey Park product Hill booted two second-half goals in a game-changing performance in what was..

South West Football League are in the box seat for their sixth Division One title in a row after a dominant day one of the Nutrien Ag Solutions Women’s Country Football Championships in Bunbury. Powered by captain and ex-AFLW player Ella Smith and fellow WAFLW fairest-and-best winner Beth Beckett, South West knocked off last year’s grand final opponents Peel and Great Northern by a combined total of 67 points to qualify for Friday night’s decider under lights at Hands Oval. The race for the second grand final spot is well and truly up for grabs with Great Northern winning one..

We take a look at the players to watch at the 2025 Nutrien Ag Solutions Women's Country Football Championships, which kicks off in Bunbury on Thursday morning.   Ella Smith (South West) Ella Smith is a seriously talented player who made it as far as the AFLW, tallying five games in two seasons with West Coast. Smith also won a Dhara Kerr Medal as the WAFLW’s fairest-and-best player during her time at Claremont. More recently, she’s become a star of the South West Football League for Donnybrook, sharing the competition’s fairest-and-best award – the Nola Marino Medal – with Bunbury’s..

South West Football League will be looking for a remarkable sixth consecutive Nutrien Ag Solutions Women’s Country Football Championship in a row at Bunbury’s Hands Oval this week. For the first time ever, Bunbury will host the tournament as the premier female country footballers from all over the State compete in the two-day tournament. South West battle it out against last season’s grand finalists Peel Football Netball League, who went through undefeated until the decider, in Division One alongside Great Northern and the newly-promoted Great Southern who took out Division Two last year. In Division Two, Kimberley, Esperance, North Pilbara..