- Source: 2014 WAFL season
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. West Perth entered the season as reigning premiers after defeating East Perth by 49 points in the 2013 WAFL Grand Final at Patersons Stadium.
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.
Clubs
Premiership season fixtures
Source: WAFL 2014 season fixtures and results
= Round 1
=After their big win, Perth found themselves on top of the ladder for the first time since the corresponding fixture of 2008. Over the next 22 rounds of football the Demons occupied all nine spots on the WAFL league ladder, becoming the first team to achieve this. Their ladder positions after each round were 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9.
= Round 2
== Round 3
== Round 4
== Round 5
== Round 6
== Round 7
== Round 8
== Round 9
== Round 10
== Round 11
== Round 12
== Round 13
== Round 14
== Round 15
== Round 16
== Round 17
== Round 18
== Round 19
== Round 20
== Round 21
== Round 22
== Round 23
=Ladder
Finals series
= Semi-finals
== Preliminary final
== Grand Final
=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:
= Round 1
== Semi-finals
== Grand Final
=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
External links
Official WAFL website