2018 WAFL season

2018 WAFL season
Teams	9
Premiers	Template:WAFL Sub 14th premiership
Minor premiers	Template:WAFL Sub 16th minor premiership
Sandover Medallist	Jye Bolton Template:WAFL Cla (52 votes)
Bernie Naylor Medallist	Tyler Keitel Andrew Strijk Template:WAFL WP (43 goals)

The 2018 WAFL season (officially the 2018 McDonald’s WAFL Premiership Season) is the 134th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season commenced on 30 March 2018 and will conclude with the 2018 WAFL Grand Final on 22 September 2018.

Ladder

2018 Ladder

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
1	Template:WAFL Sub (P)	18	18	0	0	2051	926	221.5	72
2	Template:WAFL SF	18	13	5	0	1688	1251	134.9	52
3	Template:WAFL WP	18	11	7	0	1615	1377	117.3	44
4	Template:WAFL Cla	18	9	9	0	1406	1434	98.0	36
5	Template:WAFL EP	18	8	10	0	1581	1486	106.4	32
6	Template:WAFL Per	18	7	11	0	1465	1756	83.4	28
7	Template:WAFL PT	18	7	11	0	1232	1536	80.2	28
8	Template:WAFL SD	18	6	12	0	1379	1675	82.3	24
9	Template:WAFL EF	18	2	16	0	1079	2055	52.5	8

Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Clubs

Club	Home Ground	Location	Captain	Coach
Claremont	Claremont Oval	Claremont	Ian Richardson	Darren Harris
East Fremantle	East Fremantle Oval	East Fremantle	Jamie McNamara	Robert Wiley
East Perth	Leederville Oval	Leederville	Patrick McGinnity Kyle Anderson	Luke Webster
Peel Thunder	Rushton Park	Mandurah	Gerald Ugle	Cam Shepherd
Perth	Lathlain Park	Lathlain	Clinton Jones	Earl Spalding
South Fremantle	Fremantle Oval	Fremantle	Dylan Main	Todd Curley
Subiaco	Leederville Oval	Leederville	Kyal Horsley	Jarrad Schofield
Swan Districts	Bassendean Oval	Bassendean	David Ellard Tony Notte	Adam Pickering
West Perth	Arena Joondalup	Joondalup	Aaron Black	Bill Monaghan

Finals series

Qualifying and Elimination Finals

	Qualifying Final
Saturday 1 September (2:40pm)	Template:WAFL SF 22.12 (144)	def.	Template:WAFL WP 6.10 (46)	Fremantle Community Bank Oval (crowd: 3,099)	Report

	Elimination Final
Sunday 2 September (2:40pm)	Template:WAFL Cla 12.11 (83)	def.	Template:WAFL EP 8.7 (55)	Claremont Oval (crowd: 3,669)	Report

Semi Finals

	First Semi Final
Sunday 9 September (2:15pm)	Template:WAFL WP 19.9 (123)	def.	Template:WAFL Cla 10.10 (70)	Claremont Oval (crowd: 3,102)	Report

	Second Semi Final
Sunday 9 September (3:10pm)	Template:WAFL Sub 12.12 (84)	def.	Template:WAFL SF 10.6 (66)	Leederville Oval (crowd: 3,287)	Report

Preliminary Final

	Preliminary Final
Sunday 16 September (2:40pm)	Template:WAFL SF 9.17 (71)	def. by	Template:WAFL WP 15.7 (97)	Fremantle Community Bank Oval (crowd: 3,907)	Report

Grand Final

	2018 WAFL Grand Final
Sunday 23 September (2:40pm)	Template:WAFL Sub	def.	Template:WAFL WP	Optus Stadium (crowd: 25,064)	Report
	4.4 (28) 9.8 (62) 15.11 (101) 19.13 (127)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.1 (1) 2.3 (15) 4.3 (27) 7.4 (46)	Umpires: M Adams, B Laycock, J Power Simpson Medal: Kyal Horsley (Subiaco) Television broadcast: Seven Network
Halligan, Sokol 5; Waters 3; Horsley 2; Newton, Phelan, Wheeler, Clarke 1		Goals	Black, Chalmers 2; Strijk, Peirce, Mills 1
Horsley, Deluca, Clarke, Sokol, Lockyer, Kitchin, Phelan, Halligan, Litherland		Best	Black, Nelson, Peirce, Wilhelm, Chalmers
Subiaco became the second team in WAFL history to complete a perfect season after East Fremantle in 1946.