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2014 WAFL season

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Dates
  
22 Mar 2014 – 21 Sep 2014

Attendance
  
198,699

Teams
  
9

Matches played
  
94

Premiers
  
Subiaco (12th premiership)

Minor premiers
  
East Perth (18th minor premiership)

Highest attendance
  
11,987 (Grand Final, East Perth vs. Subiaco)

Bernie Naylor Medallist
  
Ben Saunders South Fremantle (59 goals)

Sandover Medallist
  
Aaron Black West Perth (47 votes)

The 2014 WAFL season was the 130th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season began on 22 March 2014 and concluded on 21 September 2014 with the 2014 WAFL Grand Final at Patersons Stadium. West Perth entered the season as reigning premiers after defeating East Perth by 49 points in the 2013 WAFL Grand Final.

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The 2014 season was the first to feature Western Australia’s professional AFL clubs West Coast and Fremantle engage in direct alignments with East Perth and Peel Thunder respectively.

Subiaco were the premiers for the 2014 season, after they defeated favourites East Perth by 16 points at Patersons Stadium.

Premiership season fixtures

Source: WAFL 2014 season fixtures and results

Foxtel Cup

The two 2013 Grand Finalists West Perth and East Perth were invited to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition in 2014. Their performances are shown below:

State game

The WAFL representative team competed against the North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) representative team on May 24 in Sydney.

Awards

  • The Sandover Medal (awarded to the fairest and best player of the home and away season) was won by Aaron Black (West Perth), who polled 47 votes, only 1 vote ahead of Luke Blackwell (Claremont) and Shane Nelson (West Perth).
  • The Bernie Naylor Medal (for the leading goalkicker in the home and away season) was won by Ben Saunders (South Fremantle), who kicked 59 goals in 20 home and away matches.
  • Brian Dawson (East Perth) received the JJ Leonard Medal as the Coach of the Year after guiding the Royals to a second straight grand final, and his fourth in five seasons as a league coach.
  • The Subiaco Football Club were awarded the Rodriguez Shield, as the team with the best combined record at league, reserves and senior colts level in the 2014 season.
  • The Reserves premiership was won by West Perth. They defeated Subiaco on a score of 5.9 (39) def. 3.7 (25).
  • The Colts premiership was won by Swan Districts. They defeated Claremont on a score of 11.9 (75) def. 7.13 (55).

    • References

    2014 WAFL season Wikipedia
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