West Coast Eagles

West Coast Eagles
Names
Full nameWest Coast Eagles Football Club[1]
Nickname(s)Eagles
Indigenous rounds: Waalitj Marawar
2024 season
Home-and-away seasonAFL: 16th
AFLW: -
WAFL: 10th
Leading goalkickerAFL: Jake Waterman (53 goals)
AFLW: Grace Kelly (7 goals)
Club details
Founded20 October 1986
ColoursRoyal blue, gold
   
CompetitionAFL: Senior men
AFLW: Senior women
WAFL: Reserves men
OwnersWest Australian Football Commission (WAFC)
ChairmanPaul Fitzpatrick
CEODon Pyke
CoachAFL: Andrew McQualter
AFLW: Daisy Pearce
WAFL: kyal horsley
Captain(s)AFL: Oscar Allen and Liam Duggan
AFLW: Emma Swanson
WAFL: Jackson Nelson
Number-one ticket holder(s)Jan Cooper[2]
PremiershipsAFL (4)
Ground(s)AFL: Optus Stadium (61,266)
AFLW/WAFL: Mineral Resources Park (6,500)
Former ground(s)WACA Ground (1987–2000)
Subiaco Oval (1987–2017)
Training ground(s)Mineral Resources Park
Uniforms
Home
Away
Clash
Other information
Official websiteWestCoastEagles.com.au

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 club plays its home games at Optus Stadium and has its headquarters at Lathlain Park. The West Australian Football Commission wholly owns the West Coast Eagles and the Fremantle Football Club, the AFL's other Western Australian team.

The West Coast Eagles are one of the most successful clubs in the AFL era (1990 onwards). They have won the equal second most premierships (four, along with Geelong and second to Hawthorn) of any club in that time and were the first non-Victorian team to compete in and win an AFL Grand Final, achieving the latter feat in 1992. The Eagles have since won premierships in 1994, 2006 and 2018. They are one of the most profitable and influential clubs in the league, and as of 2021 have more members than any other club with over 106,000.[3][4][5]

West Coast also fields a women's team in the AFLW competition and a reserves team in the WAFL.

  1. ^ "Current details for ABN 31 009 178 894". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. ^ "Fighting for equity: Female footy pioneer's new role".
  3. ^ "Statement: AFL club membership breaks all-time record". afl.com.au. 4 August 2021.
  4. ^ "The best two clubs of the AFL era (and no, neither is Hawthorn)".
  5. ^ "Flag win a $2 million windfall for West Coast Eagles". 1 October 2018.