2016 WAFL season

2016 WAFL season
Teams	9
Premiers	Peel Thunder (1st premiership)
Minor premiers	Subiaco (14th minor premiership)
Bernie Naylor Medallist	Ben Saunders South Fremantle (52 goals)
Sandover Medallist	Jye Bolton Claremont (49 votes)
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The 2016 WAFL season was the 132nd season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season concluded on 25 September 2016 with the 2016 WAFL Grand Final between Subiaco and Peel Thunder at Domain Stadium. Peel won the match by 23 points, recording their first ever premiership.

Ladder

2016 WAFL Ladder

TEAM

PTS

Subiaco

1798

1263

142.36%

South Fremantle

1820

1397

130.28%

West Perth

1504

1438

104.59%

Peel Thunder (P)

1421

1382

102.82%

East Perth

1411

1415

99.72%

East Fremantle

1523

1611

94.54%

Claremont

1728

1479

116.84%

Perth

1315

1729

76.06%

Swan Districts

1127

1933

58.30%

Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against

Finals series

Elimination and Qualifying Finals


	Elimination Final
Sunday 4 September (3:10 pm)	Peel Thunder 12.14 (86)	def.	East Perth 5.7 (37)	Bendigo Bank Stadium (crowd: 2,834)
Peel Thunder's first ever win in a finals game.


	Qualifying Final
Saturday 3 September (2:10 pm)	South Fremantle 18.13 (121)	def.	West Perth 10.9 (69)	Fremantle Oval (crowd: 3,727)

Semi Finals


	First Semi Final
Sunday 11 September (2:15 pm)	West Perth 7.3 (45)	def. by	Peel Thunder 15.15 (105)	HBF Arena (crowd: 3,073)	Report


	Second Semi Final
Sunday 11 September (3:10 pm)	Subiaco 14.12 (96)	def.	South Fremantle 9.2 (56)	Medibank Stadium (crowd: 2,834)	Report

Preliminary Final


	Preliminary Final
Sunday 18 September (2:40 pm)	South Fremantle 10.10 (70)	def. by	Peel Thunder 16.13 (109)	Fremantle Community Bank Oval (crowd: 4,155)	Report
Peel Thunder qualified for their first ever Grand Final.

Grand Final


	2016 WAFL Grand Final
Sunday 25 September (2:30 pm)	Subiaco	def. by	Peel Thunder	Domain Stadium (Crowd: 15,031)
	1.0 (6) 5.3 (33) 7.7 (49) 8.8 (56)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.6 (30) 7.6 (48) 9.11 (65) 11.13 (79)	Simpson Medal: Connor Blakely (Peel Thunder) Television broadcast: Seven Network

2: Horsley 1: Ryan, Stevenson, Wheeler, Twomey, Robinson, Phelan		Goals	5: Yarran 3: Ugle 1: Mzungu, Apeness, Langdon
Horsley, Cockie, Broughton, Jackson, Delahunty, Phelan		Best	Langdon, Yarran, Blakely, Mzungu, de Boer, Silvagni, Nyhuis, Ugle, O'Brien



Peel Thunder won their first ever premiership, and became the first team to win the premiership from 4th on the ladder since 1965.

References

West Australian Football League seasons

WAFA era (1885 to 1907)	1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907

First WAFL era (1908 to 1930)	1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930

WANFL era (1931 to 1979)	1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Second WAFL era (1980 to 1996)	1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 (WASFL) 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996

Westar Rules era (1997 to 2000)	1997 1998 1999 2000

Third WAFL era (2001 onwards)	2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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