Footy · Perth’s south-east

Footy clubs and training in Canning

Canning has 7 footy clubs, in Canning Vale, Willetton and Bentley and more. Find yours below, then build the fitness that holds your place in it.

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Short answer

7 footy clubs have a home ground in Canning (population 95,860 at the 2021 census), across 6 suburbs. All of them play in the Perth Football League.

Junior clubs in Canning belong to the Perth and East Fremantle WAFL districts: Lynwood-Ferndale and Queens Park (Perth); Canning Vale, Rossmoyne and Willetton (East Fremantle). The district your junior club belongs to is your WAFL colts and women’s pathway.

7 clubs

Footy clubs in Canning

Every club with a home ground in Canning, where it plays, and the league and grades it fields. Most senior clubs also run junior and girls’ teams — the club can tell you which age groups have spots.

Footy clubs with a home ground in Canning, by suburb
ClubHome groundCompetition and grades
Canning South PerthWyong Reserve, Bentley PFL seniors · women’s
Curtin University WesleyCurtin University South Oval, Bentley PFL seniors · women’s
Canning ValeClifton Reserve, Canning Vale PFL seniors · women’s
Lynwood FerndaleFerndale Park, FerndalePFL seniors · women’s
SNESAQueens Park Reserve, Queens ParkPFL seniors
RossmoyneShelley Park, ShelleyPFL seniors · women’s
WillettonBurrendah Reserve, WillettonPFL seniors · women’s

† The ground’s suburb is shared with a neighbouring council, so the club may sit just over the boundary. From each league’s current club list, checked September 2026. Clubs change leagues and divisions between seasons; the league is right if this is not.

Your pathway

Which WAFL district you belong to

Junior clubs in Canning belong to the Perth and East Fremantle WAFL districts: Lynwood-Ferndale and Queens Park (Perth); Canning Vale, Rossmoyne and Willetton (East Fremantle). The district your junior club belongs to is your WAFL colts and women’s pathway.

Junior clubs in Canning, by district
Perth
Lynwood-Ferndale, Queens Park
East Fremantle
Canning Vale, Rossmoyne, Willetton

Placed by the suburb each club is named for, from WA Football’s district profiles.

Perth’s south-east: the zones, the leagues and the WAFL clubs →

How the AFL pathway works, step by step →

Your first ten minutes

Set it up for your club in Canning

Four things, in the order the app asks them. The footy calendar and conditions are on the Perth guide.

Choose footy, then your team nights

Onboarding asks “When do you train with your team?” Pick your club nights — Perth Football League 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.

Canning ValeWillettonLeemingBentleyQueens ParkCanningtonWilsonEast CanningtonRivertonParkwood

The suburbs

Canning by suburb

95,860 people at the 2021 census. Suburb populations from the same census.

Canning Vale 34,504Willetton 19,262Leeming 10,883Bentley 9,051Queens Park 7,268Cannington 6,875Wilson 6,608East Cannington 6,512Riverton 6,078Parkwood 5,995St James 4,894Shelley 4,795Ferndale 4,457Rossmoyne 3,638Lynwood 3,541Welshpool 16
For coaches

Coaching a side in Canning?

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.

FAQ

Footy in Canning: questions

What footy clubs are in Canning?
7 clubs have a home ground in Canning: Canning South Perth, Curtin University Wesley, Canning Vale, Lynwood Ferndale, SNESA, Rossmoyne and Willetton. The table on this page lists each one’s ground, league and grades.
Which WAFL district covers Canning?
Junior clubs in Canning belong to the Perth and East Fremantle WAFL districts: Lynwood-Ferndale and Queens Park (Perth); Canning Vale, Rossmoyne and Willetton (East Fremantle). The district your junior club belongs to is your WAFL colts and women’s pathway.
Where can women and girls play footy in Canning?
6 clubs field a women’s senior side: Canning South Perth, Curtin University Wesley, Canning Vale, Lynwood Ferndale, Rossmoyne and Willetton. Most junior clubs also run girls’ teams — ask the club directly.
Which league do Canning footy clubs play in?
Every Canning club listed plays in the Perth Football League.
Sources

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.

  1. Perth Football League — current clubs and grounds
  2. City of Canning — suburbs and 2021 census population
  3. WA Football — Our brightest stars: Perth district
  4. WAFL — clubs, grounds and season

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Turn up to round one already fit

Pick footy, tell it your Canning Vale training nights — or wherever you play — and your first block and testing session are ready before you leave the car park.

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