The 2011 WAFL Grand Final was an
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
game contested between the
Claremont Football Club
The Claremont Football Club, nicknamed Tigers, is an Australian rules football club based in Claremont, Western Australia, that currently plays in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). Its official colours are na ...
and the
Subiaco Football Club
The Subiaco Football Club, nicknamed the Lions and known before 1973 as the ''Maroons'', is an Australian rules football club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and WAFL Women's (WAFLW). It was founded in 1896, and admitted to the WAF ...
, on 25 September 2011 at
Patersons Stadium, to determine the premier team of the
West Australian Football League (WAFL) for the
2011 season. Claremont won the game by 56 points, 19.13 (127) to 10.11 (71), with
Beau Wilkes of Claremont winning the
Simpson Medal as
best on ground
In team sport, a player of the match or man of the match or woman of the match award is often given to the most outstanding player in a particular match. This can be a player from either team, although the player is generally chosen from the win ...
. The attendance of 15,459 was the lowest since 8,991 people attended the 1944 Grand Final.
Premiers
– wafl.com.au. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
Lead-up to the grand final
The two teams had previously met twice in the season, with Claremont winning both encounters.
Claremont
Claremont had lost by one point to in the previous year's Grand Final, and finished minor premiers in 2011, winning fifteen games and losing five. The club won eight of their first ten matches.
Subiaco
The club won only three of their first ten matches, but drew back later in the season to win nine of their last ten matches, including the first semi-final, against , and preliminary final, against .
Teams
Claremont
Subiaco
Match
References
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West Australian Football League Grand Finals
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