The

West Coast Eagles The West Coast Eagles are a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club was founded in 1986 and first competed in 1987 as one of two expansion teams in the Australian Football League (AFL), then known ...

are a football club in the

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and

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. The club is based in

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and has won the AFL premiership four times, in 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2018.

VFL/AFL

There have been thirteen players to hold the men's captaincy since the club commenced competition in 1987:

AFL Women's

The club entered the

competition in

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Notes

:1. Kemp and Cousins were co-captains during the 2001 season. :2. The West Coast captaincy was rotated in 2014 from round 13 on following the retirement of Darren Glass. :3. Duggan and Allan will be co-captains during the 2024 season. {{AFL captains

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