2023 WAFL season

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2023 WAFL season
Teams10
Premiers East Fremantle
30th premiership
Minor premiers East Fremantle
34th minor premiership
Sandover Medallist Hamish Brayshaw
(East Perth – 26 votes) [1]
Bernie Naylor Medallist Tyler Keitel
(West Perth – 57 goals)
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The 2023 WAFL season was the 139th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season commenced on 7 April and concluded with the Grand Final on 24 September. [2]

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After easily winning the minor premiership, East Fremantle won their 30th WAFL premiership breaking a 25-year drought, defeating Peel Thunder in the Grand Final at Optus Stadium.

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPtsQualification
1 East Fremantle (P)18144016501118147.656 Finals series
2 Subiaco 18126015361168131.548
3 Peel Thunder 18126014741133130.148
4 East Perth 18126016561275129.948
5 Claremont 18126015091225123.248
6 West Perth 18117015231271119.844
7 Swan Districts 1881001329133399.732
8 South Fremantle [lower-alpha 1] 1861201190122797.016
9 Perth 1821511119172564.910
10 West Coast 180171973248439.22
Source: WAFL.com.au
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Notes:
  1. ↑ South Fremantle were fined $25,000 and stripped of eight premiership points after breaching the WAFL salary cap during the 2021 WAFL season. [3] [4]

Finals series

Week one – Qualifying and elimination finals

Qualifying final
Saturday, 2 September (2:10 pm) Subiaco 10.14 (74)def. by Peel Thunder 12.12 (84) Leederville Oval
Elimination final
Sunday, 3 September (2:10 pm) East Perth 9.6 (60)def. by Claremont 11.6 (72) Leederville Oval

Week two – Semi-finals

Second semi final
Saturday, 9 September (2:10 pm) East Fremantle 9.6 (60)def. Peel Thunder 7.13 (55) Fremantle Community Bank Oval
First semi final
Sunday, 10 September (2:10 pm) Subiaco 16.12 (108)def. Claremont 8.1 (49) Leederville Oval

Week three – Preliminary final

Preliminary final
Sunday 17, September (2:10 pm) Peel Thunder 11.11 (77)def. Subiaco 7.11 (53) Lane Group Stadium

Week four – Grand Final

2023 WAFL Grand Final
Sunday 24 September (3:00 pm) East Fremantle def. Peel Thunder Optus Stadium, Perth (crowd: 27,104 [5] ) Stats
Report
3.5 (23)
6.6 (42)
9.11 (65)
12.13 (85)		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		2.0 (12)
4.4 (28)
5.7 (37)
6.10 (46)		Umpires: Gibb, Jago, McPhee, Laycock [6]
Simpson Medal: Milan Murdock (East Fremantle)
Television broadcast: Seven Network
Schoenfeld 2, McGuire 2, Murdock, English, Joyce, Marsh, McGuire, Bennett, Montauban, DixonGoalsColyer 2, Middleton, Sears, Smith, Wemm
Murdock, Turner, Eardley, Jupp, Joyce, Marsh, R McGuire, Marlin, Bailey.BestWagner, Davies, Blight, Wilson, Hamling, Brodie, Hancock.
NilInjuriesNil
NilReportsNil

Notable events

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