Round 6 Women’s Preview v East Fremantle

The WAFL Women’s competition resumes this weekend and Swan Districts will be taking on East Fremantle on Sunday at the newly redeveloped The Good Grocer Park.

It will be the first visit for Swans to Shark Park since the reopening of the East Fremantle venue with the Rogers Cup contest starting proceedings at 10:05am followed by the league match up at 12:10pm.

Swan Districts enters the Round 6 WAFL Women’s contest sitting in third position on the ladder with a 3-1 record heading into last week’s general bye for the State game that Western Australia played against South Australia.

East Fremantle, meanwhile, currently sits in fifth position in the WAFL Women’s standings with a 2-3 record.

Prior to the break, Swan Districts scored a thrilling five-point victory against West Perth at Steel Blue Oval for that third win from four games this season.

East Fremantle also scored a second win of 2025 by beating East Perth by 29 points at Leederville’s Sullivan Logistics Stadium.

Swan Districts will also be trying to avoid a fourth straight loss against East Fremantle with the Sharks having won the past three encounters including the 2023 first semi-final.

East Fremantle won both meetings in 2024 but it was only by a combined 13 points with the last win for Swans against the Sharks coming back in Round 15, 2023.

The WAFLW competition took a break last week for the State game where Western Australia took on South Australia at Adelaide Oval.

The WA team was leading by six points at half-time and one at three quarter-time before the SANFL team managed to kick two goals to one on their home ground to secure the eventual eight-point victory in the second ever women’s State clash between the best of the two competitions.

Swan Districts were represented in the game by Lauren Quaife who has cemented herself as the standout ruck in the WAFL Women’s competition.

She performed on the day at Adelaide Oval as well finishing with 12 possessions, five tackles and 19 hit outs in the narrow defeat.

The day’s women’s action on Sunday at Steel Blue Oval begins with the Rogers Cup match up between Swan Districts and East Fremantle starting at 10:05am.

Swan Districts comes into the game currently sitting in fourth position on the Rogers Cup ladder with a 3-1 record having scored wins against East Perth, Peel Thunder and West Perth in between that lone loss at the hands of Subiaco.

East Fremantle currently sits in second spot on the Rogers Cup ladder with a 3-2 record including a last up 60-point victory over East Perth prior to the break for last week’s State game.

Going back two weeks ago and it was a stirring win for Swan Districts handing a West Perth a first loss in the Rogers Cup since all the way back in the 2022 season.

The Falcons had gone through each of the past two seasons undefeated and winning the premiership, but Swans beat them by eight points at Steel Blue Oval with Sienna Pollard kicking two goals, and one each to Keira Fawcett, Madison Fisher and Summer Ajduk.