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| Clubs A to E | Clubs F to L | Clubs M to R | Clubs S to Z | Ex-Professional Clubs |
| Armadale - Emerald FC |
Floreat Athena - Kwinana United |
Maccabi - Rockingham City |
Sorrento - Western Knights |
Bassendean Caledonian - Stirling Panthers |
The Western Australian Club Directory features all the clubs competing in the top four divisions in Western Australia in 2026. This includes the three professional leagues (the NPL-WA and the two divisions of the State League), as well as the Amateur League Premier Division. Please note that Amateur Premier clubs which already have a team in one of the three professional leagues are not listed separately in this directory.
It includes each club's home ground, colours, divisional and cup honours (amateur honours not included), and known league positions over the years.
The top league in Western Australia has had several different names over the past six decades. The Soccer Federation of Western Australia (SFWA) was formed during the 1960 season when eight clubs broke away from the Western Australian Soccer Football Association to form their own professional First Division. The top flight then changed its name to the State League in 1964, became the First Division in 1968, and returned to the State League in 1979. It stayed that way until the controversial eight-team Super League was established in 1988.
In 1989, the Second Division was re-titled the Premier League, even though it wasn't actually the premier competition in the state, as it still sat one level below the Super League. The Third and Fourth Divisions kept their names until 1990, when they merged to form the First Division, which was effectively the third tier behind the Super and Premier Leagues.
At the start of the 1991 season, the league names remained unchanged. However, later that year the Super League clubs broke away from the SFWA to form the Professional Soccer League (PSL), commonly known as the Pro League.
The 1992 season was one of the most confusing in WA soccer history, with two professional organisations operating simultaneously. Over the 1991/92 summer, most clubs resigned from the SFWA to join the lower divisions of the new Professional Soccer League. Twelve clubs, however, stayed loyal to the SFWA, which ran a single league competition that effectively became the second tier behind the PSL top flight.
Common sense prevailed in 1993 when the SFWA and PSL merged to form the Professional Soccer Federation, later renamed Soccer West Coast. The top league's name remained unchanged until 1996, when Soccer West Coast re-titled the First Division as the new Premier League. The Second Division was dropped after that season, leaving only the Premier League and First Division. This structure continued under the new Football West banner in 2005, though a new Second Division was reintroduced in 2012. The Premier League officially became the Premier Division in 2010, and was renamed the National Premier Leagues – Western Australia (NPL-WA) in 2014.
The divisional changes and honour lists for each club in this directory use the current league names where possible, except for the NPL-WA. For consistency, the current NPL-WA is referred to here as the Professional Premier League.
NPL-WA ("Premier League") (As it is now known)
1960 - 1963: First Division
1964 - 1968: State League
1969 - 1979: First Division
1980 - 1987: State League
1988 - 1990: Super League
1991 - 1991: Pro League
1992 - 1995: First Division
1996 - 2009: Premier League
2010 - 2013: Premier Division
2014 - : NPL-WA (or Premier League)
First Division (As it is now known)
1962 - 1964: Second Division
1965 - 1966: First Division
1967 - 1988: Second Division
1989 - 1991: Premier League
1992 (SFWA): First Division
1992 (PSL) : Second Division
1993 - 1995: Second Division
1996 - : First Division
Second Division (As it is now known)
1963 - 1963: Third Division
1964 - 1965: Second Division
1965 - 1970: Third Division
1971 - 1972: No Competition
1973 - 1989: Third Division
1990 - 1991: First Division
1992 - 1995: Third Division
1996 - 1996: Second Division
1997 - 2011: No Competition
2012 - : Second Division
Third Division (As it would be now known)
1978 - 1989: Fourth Division
1990 - : No Competition
The Amateur Soccer Assocation (ASA) was formed in 1968, and its top flight was called the First Division throughout its history to 1987. The Perth Amateur Social Soccer Assocation (PASSA) was formed in 1975 and its top league was also called the First Division. This was changed to the PASSA Premier Division in 1985.
Both amateur assocations merged in 1988 to form the Western Australian Amateur Social Soccer Assocation (WAASSA), with its top flight being titled the Premier Division, in which it continues to this day under Football West. Football West did officially change the name of the "Amateur League" to the "Sunday League" in 2010. This was then changed back to the "Amateur League" in 2015. The number of divisions in the Amateur League has been from one in 1968 to as many as seven divisions in 2011. As with the Professional league, the historical divisional changes in this directory from the Amateur League will be the same as today's set-up, with the top league being called the Amateur Premier Division and so on.
Due to the Federation split of 1992, there were two leagues that were of Professional First Division standard that season. Clubs playing in either association that year will have the PSL (Professional Soccer League) or SFWA (Soccer Federation of WA) next to their 1992 league position in the club directory to indicate which association they were playing in at the time.
Championship play-offs decided overall positions in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998 and from 2009 to 2014 in the Professional Premier League and also in a play-off "league format" in 2001, 2002 and 2005 in the Professional First Division.
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 virus, a different format was played. Overall positions are decided by where clubs finished in the final phase of each division.
Former Professional League clubs currently playing in the lower divisions of the Amateur League have been included in this directory for historical reference under the "Ex-Professional League Clubs" link.
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This page was last updated on the 12th October, 2025