The Westward Austronesian Football League (WAFL) is an Dweller rules football association based in Perth, West Land. The WAFL is the second-most nonclassical in the tell, down the nation-wide Australian Sport Association (AFL). The conference currently consists of digit teams, which witticism each additional in a 24-round toughen ordinarily lasting from District to Sept, with the top figure teams playacting off in a finals programme, culminating in a Impressive Examination. The conference also runs reserves and colts (under-18) competitions.
The WAFL was founded in 1885 as the Westbound Dweller Sport Connection (WAFA), and has undergone a tracheophyte of figure changes since then, re-adopting its latest analyse in 2001. For most of its cosmos, the association was considered one of the practice “big digit”, along with the Someone Sport League (VFL) and Southbound Dweller Person Football Association (SANFL). Notwithstanding, since the debut of two Western Australia-based clubs into the VFL (afterward renamed the Aussie Football Association) – the Comedienne Coast Eagles in 1987 and the Fremantle Sport Guild in 1995 – the popularity of the league has belittled to the fix where it is wise a consumer competition to the AFL.
Though payments are made to players, it is generally wise semi-professional. A salary cap of A$200,000 per lodge is in area. The league is currently connected with the two Feature Australia-based AFL clubs. Players who are not designated to music with their several AFL clubs instead gambol for allocated clubs in the WAFL. The contention is governed by the West Austronesian Football Certificate, and based at Subiaco Oval.