West Perth Football Club


The West Perth Football Club, nicknamed the Falcons, is an Australian rules football club located in Joondalup, Western Australia. West Perth competes in the West Australian Football League and is the oldest existing Australian rules football club in Western Australia. Originally located at Leederville Oval, the team was relocated in 1994 to Arena Joondalup, a sports complex in the northern suburbs of Perth. The team's club song is "It's a Grand Old Flag" and its traditional rivals are East Perth.

History

The Victorian Football Club was established at a meeting on 2 May 1885. The new team was to play its games at the Recreation Ground and wear the colours cardinal and navy. Two weeks after the establishment of the new club it formed the WAFA together with Rovers and Fremantle. The three clubs, along with High School were to play out the 1885 season, however High School dropped out after just two rounds.
The West Australian Football Club was established in 1886 and were admitted to the competition for the 1887 season. At a meeting of the two clubs on 16 April 1889, it was unanimously decided to amalgamate the two clubs – West Australian and Victorians – into a single club known as the Metropolitan Football Club for the 1889 season. The West Australian colours of black and red were to be maintained for the new club. The team changed its name to West Perth after two seasons as Metropolitans and in 1897 won its first premiership.
In 1915 the team became the original tenant of the newly built Leederville Oval where it would remain based until 1993, at which the team moved to Joondalup to play games at Arena Joondalup from the 1994 season onwards. Since relocating the Falcons have enjoyed relative success with four premierships from seven grand finals, the most recent of which was in 2013.

Club song

Honours

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Bernie Naylor Medalists:
All-Australians:
300 games
200 games:
Indicates current listed players

Club records

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WA Football Hall of Fame

West Perth players who have been inducted into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame:
PlayerYear inducted
Fred Buttsworth2004
Bill Dempsey2004
Brian Foley2004
Barney Grecian2004
Stan Heal2004
Fred McDiarmid2004
Ray Schofield2004
Ray Scott2004
Max Tetley2004
Ted Tyson2004
Mel Whinnen2004
Jim Craig2005
Les Fong2006
Brian France2006
Jim Gosnell2007
Alan Watling2009
Wally Price2010
Don Marinko, Sr.2011
Frank Hopkins2013
John Wynne2015
Derek Kickett2017
John Loughridge2019

Premierships

Grand finals

Last premiership team

Club coaches

Club captains

Current squad

As of May 2018:

Team of the Century

AFL/VFL players (including rookies)

This is a list of West Perth players who have played at AFL/VFL level: