Footy training for Perth players
Every WAFL club has a district of junior clubs feeding it, and every district has more players than Colts spots. The players who hold one are usually the ones who turned up in April already fit.
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Perth is divided into WAFL club districts, each made up of junior football clubs: West Perth and Subiaco in the north, Claremont in the western suburbs, East Perth and Swan Districts in the inner north and north-east, Perth in the south-east, and East Fremantle and South Fremantle in the south. Their Colts and women’s teams are the talent pathway.
The WAFL runs April to September, so pre-season happens through the hottest months.
Find your part of Perth
Each region names the WAFL district or districts it covers, with the junior clubs WA Football lists in them. Find your junior club, and you have found your region.
Perth’s northern suburbs
West Perth and Subiaco districts — Balga and Carine up the coast to Joondalup and Yanchep.
See the regionPerth’s western suburbs
Claremont’s district — Cottesloe and Mosman Park up the coast to Scarborough and North Beach.
See the regionPerth’s inner north, Swan & the hills
East Perth and Swan Districts — Mount Hawthorn and Morley out to Midland, Ellenbrook and the hills.
See the regionPerth’s south-east
The Perth Demons’ district — Belmont, Canning, Gosnells, South Perth and Victoria Park.
See the regionFremantle & Perth’s south
East Fremantle and South Fremantle districts — Applecross and Willetton to Cockburn, Kwinana and Armadale.
See the regionWhich club your address belongs to
Nine WAFL clubs have a metropolitan district. West Coast also fields a WAFL side, without one.
- West Perth
- Joondalup. The far northern suburbs, from Whitford to Yanchep.
- Subiaco
- Leederville. The northern suburbs, from Balga to Sorrento-Duncraig.
- Claremont
- Claremont. The western suburbs and the coast.
- East Perth
- Leederville. The central and northern suburbs — Bayswater, Perth, Stirling, Swan and Vincent.
- Swan Districts
- Bassendean. The Swan Valley, Midland and the hills.
- Perth
- Lathlain. Belmont, Canning, Gosnells, South Perth and Victoria Park.
- East Fremantle
- East Fremantle. Melville and the southern suburbs to Canning Vale.
- South Fremantle
- Fremantle. Cockburn, Kwinana and Armadale.
- Peel Thunder
- Mandurah. The Peel region — see its own guide.
WA Football’s district profiles date from 2020, and junior club line-ups change. Your junior club, or the WAFL club, can confirm which district it sits in.
The competitions
- WAFL, Colts and WAFL Women’s
- The state league and its talent competitions. April to September.
- Junior football by district
- Each district’s junior clubs play in WA Football’s metropolitan junior competitions.
- Amateur and community football
- Senior community football across the metro area.
Set it up for Perth
Four things, in the order the app asks them. None of them needs a coach.
Choose footy, then your team nights
Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — WAFL, Colts and WAFL Women’s or wherever you play — and your gym and conditioning are scheduled around them, lighter the day after a big one. Tell it your equipment and any niggles and every exercise is fitted to both.
Match the program to your league’s start
The app treats March as the start of the footy season. The WAFL and most community leagues start in April, so you can hold the pre-season through March by setting the phase yourself. The phase lives in Program → Your year.
Know your numbers on day one
Your first testing session is ready immediately: 2km time trial, Bench press 1RM, Max pull-ups, Trap-bar deadlift 1RM, Running vertical jump. It is re-run every 8 weeks, and the results re-price your training weights and conditioning paces.
Put your suburb on the board
In Social → Town, set where you train. Your minutes count toward that town’s weekly conditioning and strength top-10 boards — only the town is kept, never your location.
What you start with, by the month you join
Every block is four weeks — three building, one deload — so a free month is one complete block.
The footy year in Perth
- October
- Off-season. Rest, then rebuild general strength.
- November – February
- Pre-season, through the hottest months. Aerobic base first, then strength, then power.
- March
- Final preparation. Practice matches and testing.
- April – September
- Season. The 2026 WAFL season began on 3 April with the Grand Final on 20 September. Volume comes down, weights hold.
Perth pre-seasons are long and hot
Perth’s summer is long and dry, and the hard part of a pre-season lands squarely inside it. Train the running early — before the heat builds — and treat very hot stretches as added load rather than pushing through them. Sports Medicine Australia’s heat guidelines are the reference most clubs use.
Coaching a side in Perth?
A club licence is A$8 per player, per month (minimum 5), and every player on it gets full Train Smart membership at no cost to them. You write the block once, it lands in each player’s app, and the console shows who actually did it.
Footy in Perth: questions
What are the WAFL clubs?
When is the WAFL season?
How should I train for footy through a Perth summer?
Where these facts come from
Checked September 2026. Zones, grades and dates change — if something here is out of date, the governing body is right and we are wrong.
Spotted an error? Tell us and we will fix it.
Nearby and related
Mandurah & Peel
Peel Thunder’s region — the Peel Football League from Rockingham and Mundijong to Waroona.
OpenBunbury & the South West
The eleven-club South West Football League, from Harvey to Margaret River.
OpenThe AFL pathway
From community level to state league and the draft — and what gets tested along the way.
OpenTurn up to round one already fit
Pick footy, tell it your team nights, and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.
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