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Sport | Australian rules football |
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Founded | 2018 |
First season | 2019 |
Owner(s) | WAFC, WAWFL (until 2021) |
No. of teams | 8 |
Country | Australia |
Most recent champion(s) | ‹The template WAFL Cla is being considered for deletion.› Claremont (2nd premiership) |
Most titles | ‹The template WAFL PT is being considered for deletion.› Peel Thunder, ‹The template WAFL EF is being considered for deletion.› East Fremantle, ‹The template WAFL Cla is being considered for deletion.› Claremont (2 premierships) |
TV partner(s) | Seven Network (Grand Final only) |
Sponsor(s) | Optus |
Official website | wafl.com.au |
WAFL Women's (WAFLW) is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, Western Australia. The WAFLW is the premier women's football competition in Western Australia, and from 2023 is contested by eight teams owned and operated by clubs in the men's West Australian Football League (WAFL).
The league was established in 2018 by the West Australian Football Commission and West Australian Women's Football League, the latter having been the governing body and league for women's football in the state from 1987 to 2018,[1] and has been run by the WAFC after the WAWFL was dissolved in 2021.
The league runs from February to August, and ran partially concurrently with the AFL Women's (AFLW) until Season 7 of the AFLW. It is also the second primary women's football competition for West Australian footballers underneath the semi-professional national competition, and one of the three elite leagues in women's Australian rules football (the AFLW, SANFLW and WAFLW).