Fremantle Football Club

Fremantle Football Club
Names
Full nameFremantle Football Club Limited[1]
Nickname(s)Dockers, Freo
Indigenous rounds: Walyalup
2023 season
After finalsAFL:
AFLW:
Home-and-away seasonAFL: 14th
AFLW: 13th
Leading goalkickerAFL: Jye Amiss (41 Goals)
AFLW: Aine Tighe (9 Goals)
Best and fairestAFL: Caleb Serong
AFLW: Ange Stannett
Club details
Founded21 July 1994 (1994-07-21)
ColoursAFL:   Purple   white
AFLW:   Purple   white   Crimson
CompetitionAFL: Men
AFLW: Women
ChairmanDale Alcock
CoachAFL: Justin Longmuir
AFLW: Lisa Webb
Captain(s)AFL: Alex Pearce
AFLW: Hayley Miller
Premierships0
Ground(s)AFL: Perth Stadium 2018-present (capacity: 61,266)
 AFLW: Fremantle Oval 2017–present (capacity: 10,000)
Former ground(s)WACA Ground (1995–2000)
Subiaco Oval (1995–2017)
Training ground(s)Cockburn ARC (2017–present)
Fremantle Oval (1995–2017)
Uniforms
Home
Away
Clash
Other information
Official websitefremantlefc.com.au
Current season

The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football club competing in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The team was founded in 1994 to represent the port city of Fremantle, a stronghold of Australian rules football in Western Australia. The Dockers were the second team from the state to be admitted to the competition, following the West Coast Eagles in 1987. Both Fremantle and the West Coast Eagles are owned by the West Australian Football Commission (WAFC), with a board of directors operating Fremantle on the commission's behalf.

Despite having participated in and won several finals matches, Fremantle is one of only three active AFL clubs not to have won a premiership (the others being Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney), though it did claim a minor premiership in 2015 and reached the 2013 Grand Final, losing to Hawthorn.[2][3] High-profile players who forged careers at Fremantle include All-Australian Matthew Pavlich, Hall of Fame inductee Peter Bell, and dual Brownlow Medal winner Nat Fyfe, who previously captained the club under both Ross Lyon and current head coach Justin Longmuir. Originally based at Fremantle Oval, the club's training and administrative facilities are now located nearby at Cockburn ARC in Cockburn Central, whilst its home ground is the 60,000-capacity Perth Stadium in Burswood.

Fremantle has also fielded a women's team in the AFL Women's league since the competition's inception in 2017. They are currently coached by Lisa Webb and captained by Hayley Miller. Their most successful season was the 2020 season, in which the team was undefeated, but was ultimately cancelled without a premiership awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]

  1. ^ "Current details for ABN 83 066 055 249". ABN Lookup. Australian Business Register. November 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  2. ^ Malcolm, Alex (30 August 2015). "Dockers seal top spot with easy win over Dees". Australian Football League. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. ^ McNicol, Adam (28 September 2013). "Grand revenge: Hawthorn makes up for 2012 loss". Australian Football League. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
  4. ^ Cherny, Daniel (23 March 2020). "Fremantle AFLW coach philosophical about finals heartbreak". The Age. Retrieved 21 January 2021.

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