2015 WAFL season

The 2015 WAFL season was the 131st season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season began on 20 March 2015 and concluded on 27 September 2015 with the 2015 WAFL Grand Final between Subiaco and West Perth at Domain Stadium. Subiaco won the match by 66 points, recording their second consecutive premiership and 13th overall.

2015 WAFL season
Teams9
PremiersSubiaco
(13th premiership)
Minor premiersSubiaco
(13th minor premiership)
Highest attendance13,094 (Grand Final, Subiaco vs. West Perth)
Bernie Naylor MedallistShane Yarran
Subiaco (46 goals)
Sandover MedallistAidan Tropiano
Perth (45 votes)

For the first time since 1994, the finals series was based on a top-5, rather than the top 4 system that has been used since 1931, with the exception of 1991–1994.[1]

Clubs
Club Home ground Location 2014 season
Claremont Claremont Showground Claremont 11-9 (DNQ Finals)
East Fremantle East Fremantle Oval East Fremantle 12-8 (Preliminary final)
East Perth Leederville Oval Leederville 16-4 (Runners up)
Peel Thunder Rushton Park Mandurah 4-16 (DNQ Finals)
Perth Lathlain Park Lathlain 3-17 (DNQ Finals)
South Fremantle Fremantle Oval Fremantle 9-11 (DNQ Finals)
Subiaco Leederville Oval Leederville 14-6 (Premiers)
Swan Districts Bassendean Oval Bassendean 12-8 (Semi Final)
West Perth Arena Joondalup Joondalup 9-11 (DNQ Finals)

Ladder
2015 ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Subiaco (P) 20 17 3 0 1899 1102 172.3 68
2 West Perth 20 13 7 0 1688 1448 116.6 52
3 Peel Thunder 20 13 7 0 1734 1632 106.3 52
4 East Perth 20 11 9 0 1697 1480 114.7 44
5 Claremont 20 10 10 0 1531 1433 106.8 40
6 Swan Districts 20 10 10 0 1627 1571 103.6 40
7 South Fremantle 20 8 12 0 1458 1763 82.7 32
8 East Fremantle 20 6 14 0 1452 1788 81.2 24
9 Perth 20 2 18 0 1269 2138 59.4 8
Source: WAFL Footy Facts
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers.

Finals series

Elimination and Qualifying Finals
Elimination Final
Sunday 6 September (2:10 pm) East Perth 13.15 (93) def. Claremont 9.7 (61) Medibank Stadium (crowd: 2,670) Report
Qualifying Final
Sunday 6 September (2:15 pm) West Perth 22.13 (145) def. Peel Thunder 5.6 (36) HBF Arena (crowd: 2500 (approx)) Report
  • Peel Thunder's first ever finals game after 19 seasons.

Semi-finals
First semi-final
Sunday 13 September (2:15 pm) Peel Thunder 9.8 (62) def. by East Perth 10.24 (84) Bendigo Bank Stadium (crowd:  2500 (approx)) Report
  • Skipper Brendan Lee leads the Royals into the Preliminary Final with 35 disposals
Second semi-final
Sunday 13 September (2:15 pm) Subiaco 17.13 (115) def. West Perth 9.6 (60) Medibank Stadium (crowd: 2500 (approx)) Report

Preliminary final
Preliminary final
Sunday 20 September (2:10 pm) West Perth 14.13 (97) def. East Perth 10.8 (68) HBF Arena (crowd: 2800) Report
  • The Falcons storm home to beat their arch-rivals on the back of 6 goals to Michael Lourey

Grand Final
2015 WAFL Grand Final
Sunday 27 September (2:15 pm) Subiaco def. West Perth Domain Stadium (crowd: 13,094) Report
3.4 (22)
10.7 (67)
17.8 (110)
 21.10 (136)		 Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		 3.3 (21)
5.4 (34)
7.9 (51)
 10.10 (70)		 Simpson Medal: Matt Boland (Subiaco)
Television broadcast: Seven Network
7: Boland
5: Yarran
2: Halligan
1: Wheeler, Menegola, Deluca, Mahoney, Wood, Twomey, Phelan		 Goals 2: Strijk, Rasmussen
1: Lourey, Rohde, Lynch, Adams, Black, Potente
Menegola, Yarran, Wheeler, Twomey, Boland, Phelan, Kitchin, Rumble, Lowndes Best Strijk, Nelson, Manzone, van Berlo, Keunen, Kerr

References
  1. Townsend, John (6 September 2014). "WAFL adopts top five for finals".
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