| Fremantle Football Club | ||||
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| Names | ||||
| Full name | Fremantle Football Club Limited[1] | |||
| Nickname(s) | Dockers, Freo Indigenous rounds: Walyalup | |||
| 2024 season | ||||
| After finals | AFL: — AFLW: — | |||
| Home-and-away season | AFL: 10th AFLW: 5th | |||
| Leading goalkicker | AFL: Josh Treacy (45 Goals) AFLW: | |||
| Best and fairest | AFL: Caleb Serong AFLW: | |||
| Club details | ||||
| Founded | 21 July 1994 | |||
| Colours | AFL: Purple white AFLW: Purple white Crimson | |||
| Competition | AFL: Men AFLW: Women | |||
| Chairman | Chris Sutherland | |||
| Coach | AFL: Justin Longmuir AFLW: Lisa Webb | |||
| Captain(s) | AFL: Alex Pearce AFLW: Ange Stannett | |||
| Premierships | 0 | |||
| Ground(s) | AFL: Perth Stadium 2018-present (capacity: 61,266) | |||
| AFLW: Fremantle Oval 2017–present (capacity: 10,000) | ||||
| Former ground(s) | WACA Ground (1995–2000) Subiaco Oval (1995–2017) | |||
| Training ground(s) | Cockburn ARC (2017–present) Fremantle Oval (1995–2017) | |||
| Uniforms | ||||
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| Other information | ||||
| Official website | fremantlefc | |||
The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers or colloquially Freo, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fremantle, a stronghold of Australian rules football in Western Australia. The Dockers were the second team from the state to be admitted to the competition, following the West Coast Eagles in 1987. Both Fremantle and the West Coast Eagles are owned by the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC), with a board of directors operating Fremantle on the commission's behalf.
Despite having participated in and won several finals matches, Fremantle is one of only three active AFL clubs not to have won a premiership (the others being Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney), though it did claim a minor premiership in 2015 and reached the 2013 Grand Final, losing to Hawthorn.[2][3] High-profile players who forged careers at Fremantle include All-Australian Matthew Pavlich, Hall of Fame inductee Peter Bell, and dual Brownlow Medal winner Nat Fyfe, who previously captained the club under both Ross Lyon and current head coach Justin Longmuir. Originally based at Fremantle Oval, the club's training and administrative facilities are now located nearby at Cockburn ARC in Cockburn Central, whilst its home ground is the 60,000-capacity Perth Stadium in Burswood.
Fremantle has also fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's league since the competition's inception in 2017. They are currently coached by Lisa Webb and captained by Angelique Stannett. Their most successful season was the 2020 season, in which the team was undefeated, but was ultimately cancelled without a premiership awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
- ^ "Current details for ABN 83 066 055 249". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ Malcolm, Alex (30 August 2015). "Dockers seal top spot with easy win over Dees". Australian Football League. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ McNicol, Adam (28 September 2013). "Grand revenge: Hawthorn makes up for 2012 loss". Australian Football League. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
- ^ Cherny, Daniel (23 March 2020). "Fremantle AFLW coach philosophical about finals heartbreak". The Age. Retrieved 21 January 2021.