West London Wildcats
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| Names | |
| Full name | West London Wildcats |
| Nickname(s) | Wildcats, Cats, Catas |
| 2017 season | |
| Home-and-away season | 2nd |
| Leading goalkicker | Zak Bozanich |
| Best and fairest | Evan Johnson |
| Club details | |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Colours | Navy and White |
| Competition | AFL London Premiership |
| President | Chad Sellenger & Craig Simpson |
| Coach | Keith Della Vedova & Jared Risol |
| Captain(s) | Andy Challis |
| Premierships | 11 (2000, 2004-2009, 2011, 2013-2014, 2016) |
| Ground(s) | Dukes Meadow, Dan Mason Dr, London, W4 2SH |
| Other information | |
| Official website | [1] |
The West London Wildcats are an Australian rules football and netball club based in London, England. The club fields teams in each of the three men's AFL London divisions - Premiership, Conference and Social and recently fielding a women's team in 2017 competing in the AFL London women's conference division. The reserves team is known as the Shepherds Bush Raiders and wear a green and gold guernsey while the Social team is known as the Ealing Emus and wear a black, red and yellow guernsey. The Wildcats are regarded as the biggest and most successful Australian rule football club outside of Australia.
The West London Wildcats were formed in 1990 as a foundation club of the British Australian Rules Football League, now known as the AFL London division of AFL Britain. They have played in a number of BARFL grand finals, finally winning their first premiership in 2000 against arch-rivals, the Wandsworth Demons, the team captained at the time by club stalwart, Chris Schleter. They have since followed this up with premierships in 2004, 2005 and 2006 all against BARFL heavy-weights the Wimbledon Hawks. 2004 saw fullback Rowan Bilkey captain the club. Chris Schleter again captained the premiers in 2005 while in 2006 Ruckman and Barclay Dixon lead his team to the BARFL premiership. The Wildcats stand as the only team to win the BARFL Premiership on three consecutive occasions. In 2004 the team achieved another first in BARFL history by claiming the BARFL 'Grand Slam', winning the Anzac Cup preseason tournament, the Brit Cup and both the Conference and Premier Division Premierships, a feat they repeated in season 2006.
The Wildcats also field a second team, the Shepherds Bush Raiders, in the AFL London Conference competition, and a third side, the Ealing Emus in the AFL London Social division. The Shepherds Bush Raiders have won all but 2 of the 16 Conference premierships since the competition's inception in 2001. The Raiders last reigning Premiership in the Conference division was in 2015.
The West London Wildcats celebrated 25 years of existence in 2014. Capping off a fine year by winning the premiership in all 3 grades.
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