Fremantle will take on St Kilda on Sunday 29 June at Optus Stadium. Bounce down for the clash is at 3.10pm WST.

This weekend’s game marks the Club’s 23rd annual Starlight Purple Haze game, proudly presented by South32, with Fremantle once again wearing a special jumper that captures the spirit of the occasion.

Starlight Purple Haze is about more than just football - it’s about coming together as a community to make a difference.

Fans can pledge any dollar amount for each goal Fremantle kicks during the match. Thanks to the generous support of South32, all pledges will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $50,000 - doubling the impact of every donation.

Tickets are available for the clash via Ticketmaster, starting from just $39.

Transport Information 

Following the opening of the Thornlie-Cockburn Line, direct trains on the Mandurah Line to Optus Stadium will now operate before and after games. 

Direct trains on the Yanchep and Mandurah lines, in addition to the Suburban Event Bus Network will operate to get you to and from the game. Direct trains on the Fremantle Line will also operate after the game to get you home. 

The Red CAT is temporarily operating a shorter route, terminating at Hale Street due to a road closure. During Optus Stadium events, services will extend to Matagarup Bridge for approximately two hours before the event, continuing until one hour after the event, including during the event.

If you are travelling before, or after this time, you will need to catch an alternate service to Optus Stadium.

All patrons are encouraged to plan ahead using the Transperth JourneyPlanner and allow plenty of extra time to arrive before bounce. 

Key times – Round 16 v St Kilda

1.15pm - Membership services available at Gate B & E
1.10pm - Purple Playground Open
1.30pm – Gates Open
2.25pm – 2.40pm – First Warm Up  
2.59pm – Team Entry
3.08pm – Coin Toss
3.10pm – Bounce down

*Purple Playground activations may be cancelled due to weather

What's happening on the day?

Starlight Beanies, Wands and Volunteers
Purple Haze beanies will be sold from the Bankwest sea container before the game outside Gate D for $30, with $15 donated directly to the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Once the game starts, beanies will be moved inside the ground and sold near section 131.

Starlight wands can be purchased for $10 outside the ground from volunteers roaming the stadium or near the Bankwest Sea Container, as well as inside at section 101, section 131 and the Clubhouse/Riverview Room.

As always, the amazing Starlight Volunteers will be around the outside of Optus Stadium pre-game helping to raise funds for sick kids - so keep an eye out for them if you would like to make a donation or a Fans Pledge.

Purple Playground (Southern Oval and in front of Gate D)
Come down to Southern Oval located in front of the Camfield and bounce around on the Inflatable Obstacle Course or take a hanger at the Inflatable Marking Spot. 

Just next door, in front of Gate D, be sure to also get yourself tatted up with a Freo airbrush tattoo or sparkle up at the Glitter Bar. Freo players will be stopping by around 2.15pm as well.

Please be aware that half of the Southern Oval will be under repair, however, the fun will still be around!

101 Oh What Fun! (Near Lobby 101)
Located at Lobby 101 and back again in 2025, 101 Oh What Fun is your destination for fun outside of the footy. We will be bringing in the airbrush tattoos to get decked out in Freo-themed art, or design your very own bag so you can carry your signed team poster and Starlight Wand with you anywhere!

Freo players will be stopping by at half-time as well, so be sure to catch them.

101 Oh What Fun will close at the end of three-quarter time.

360 Photo Booth - Presented by South32
Don’t miss the 360 photobooth on game day! Step onto the platform, strike your best pose, and walk away with an epic, branded slow-mo video to share! It’s the ultimate fan experience and a game day must-do, all thanks to South32.

Sensory bags available from 101 Oh What Fun
The Purple Hands Foundation will continue to offer take-to-seat sensory bags, for adults and children who have sensory needs, at all Fremantle home games. With the support of uLaunch, Powered by AKG, the bags are available to use throughout the game and assist in making footy accessible and enjoyable for all.
 
Sensory bags will be located at 101 Oh What Fun (section 101). Please ensure to bring a form of ID to exchange for a bag.

Wheelchair Footy
WA All Abilities Wheelchair football come and try and inclusion specialists will be on-hand at the western podium pre-game fan zone to discuss participation opportunities in adaptive football for people living with disability. Wheelchair footy will be running from when the gates open until half-time.

TABtouch Darts in The Ressies  
Have you got the touch? Come have a shot at the TABtouch Darts activation where you can throw felt footballs at a dart board for the chance to win a range of prizes from merchandise to vouchers. Located in The Ressies Eastern Scoreboard Terrace area. 

AFL Gameday Rooftop Experience
Don't miss your chance to take your game day experience up a level. Watch the first or third quarter of footy from the most unique seats in the house - on top of Optus Stadium!
 
To book, visit THE OZONE at Optus Stadium.

Competitions

Pick your Pump up Tune thanks to Macca's
Fans will have the chance to vote for their favourite song to be played at half-time of Sunday's game. Thanks to Macca's, one lucky entrant will also take home a match ball from this weekend. 

MyPlace Chase the LED
Do you think you've got what it takes to race the MyPlaceIQ mascots? Run live at Optus Stadium on game day for your chance to win two tickets to a fully catered premium suite for a Fremantle Dockers home game.

Submit your entry here for the MyPlace Chase.

Bankwest Best Seats in the House 
At three-quarter time, be in your seats and have your phone ready for your chance to win one of three double passes into Bankwest’s best seats in the house!
 
Mac for a Match 
Once again this year, Macca’s will be offering all Freo ticket holders and members who are in WA a free Big Mac on the Monday following a win, home or away.

Fremantle fans can simply show their digital game day ticket or digital membership to claim their Big Mac for FREE. 

Optus Stadium Restaurants and Catering 
The City View Cafe will be OPEN. However, the Goodwood restaurant will be CLOSED. 
 
The Freo Clubhouse  
The Freo Clubhouse in River View Rooms 1 & 2, Sky View Lounge & Sky View Underscreen bar will be open for this round, however, you will need to show your ticket stating room access to receive entry.

River View Room 3 will be closed for a private function, pre-match only.
 
Other key points:

• No cloaking facilities are available. Don't bring bulky items.  
• Practice good hand hygiene.

If you have any questions or require further assistance, please contact the membership services team on (08) 9433 7111 or at membership@fremantlefc.com.au. 

Fremantle lifted late to hold off a determined St Kilda at Optus Stadium to win by 12 points and extend Freo's winning run to six games in a Sunday thriller that went down to the wire. 

Eight weeks after the defeat, Fremantle was challenged in the midfield again and trailed early in the final term before kicking five of the last six goals to win 11.15 (81) to 9.15 (69) in the club's annual Starlight Purple Haze game, proudly presented by South32.

The game came down to the final centre clearance, with Sean Darcy and Caleb Serong combining to send the ball forward and Luke Jackson taking a towering contested mark to ice the game, before converting his set shot after the siren.

The win moves Freo to 10-5 and further entrenches them in the top eight, with half-back Jordan Clark producing an enormous performance to drive an important win for the Club. 

Clark finished with 31 disposals, 10 marks and a goal, while key forward Josh Treacy was influential with a team-high three goals, a massive chase-down tackle and a goal-saving spoil on the line deep in the fourth quarter. 

Darcy finished with 41 hitouts and seven clearances, taking the bulk of the ruck work as Jackson played both as a ground-level midfielder and deep forward target for two goals. 

Fremantle made the call not to activate substitute Nat Fyfe deep in the game after he had some calf awareness during the half-time warm-up.  

Andrew Brayshaw (25 and six inside 50s) was the best of a midfield unit that was well held again by the Saints, who won the clearances 46-31 and the centre clearances 13-7, with Jack Macrae, Hugo Garcia and Jack Steele all performing well.

Garcia paid particular attention to Serong throughout the game, but was able to win a game-high 10 clearances among his 24 disposals.   

The Saints were relentless all day and would have also been thrilled with the performance of young defender Alix Tauru. But they lacked polish late in the game when the result was up for grabs. 

After so much attention on who Marcus Windhager would tag, the St Kilda stopper instead started forward and left Macrae, Garcia and Steele to handle the big midfield match-ups. 

Windhager pushed up into the midfield from there as the Saints got a lot of numbers around the ball and made sure the stoppages played out on their terms, winning the clearances 14-6 in the first quarter. 

Treacy ensured Fremantle had a three-point lead at quarter-time, however, kicking both of Freo's goals for the term as St Kilda wasted its opportunities at the other end. 

In-form half-back Clark extended the lead early in the second quarter when he was sent into range by a 50m penalty against Dan Butler, but the Saints countered to kick three of the next four as their midfield dominance continued.

Playing in front of the Fremantle crowd for the first time since he left at the end of 2023, Liam Henry snapped an excellent shot and shooshed the Purple Army as the Saints took a narrow lead.

Freo bobbed ahead at the main break, however, after Nathan O'Driscoll marked Pat Voss's clever pass and converted, with that narrow lead somewhat masking the midfield issues.

Clearances at the main break were 25-11 in the Saints' favour, and centre clearances were 8-3, with the visitors getting more reward for their ascendency in a three-goal-to-one third term. 
 
Consecutive goals to Butler, Max Hall, Isaac Keeler, and then Jack Higgins at the start of the fourth quarter, gave the Saints a 14-point lead early in the final term. 

They fell away thereafter, however, as the Freo talls in Darcy, Jackson and Treacy had a great influence, with Serong also lifting around the ball at critical moments. 
 
Marshall magic 
St Kilda ruck Rowan Marshall had his work cut out for him against the double team of Sean Darcy and Luke Jackson, but he found a way to have a big impact in the first half. Beaten 29-11 in hitouts, Marshall found other ways to have an influence, competing at ground level to have a team-high five clearances in the first half and getting creative to kick a brilliant second-quarter goal. Wrestling with Darcy at a forward 50 stoppage, Marshall held his man off as the throw-in came down and kicked the ball out of mid-air. He flushed the kick as well as he could have hoped, going on to finish with 21 disposals and 10 clearances. 

Clark sizing up AA jacket 
The momentum building in Jordan Clark's season makes him a leading option for selection in the 2025 All-Australian team, with his assertive style at half-back a massive reason the Freo Dockers held on against the Saints. Clark finished with 31 disposals, 10 marks and five rebound 50s, using the ball brilliantly and playing with poise when the game around him was chaotic. Tough in the contest, consistent, and an emerging leader at Freo, he must be considered for one of the half-back flanks in the team of the year.  

FREMANTLE         2.2   5.5   6.10   11.15 (81)
ST KILDA         1.5   4.8   7.12  9.15 (69)

GOALS
Fremantle: Treacy 3, Bolton, Clark, Darcy, Dudley, Jackson, O'Driscoll, Reid 
St Kilda: Keeler 2, Butler, Hall, Henry, Higgins, Marshall, Wanganeen-Milera 

BEST
Fremantle: Clark, Treacy, Darcy, Jackson, Brayshaw, Ryan 
St Kilda: Garcia, Marshall, Macrae, Tauru, Wanganeen-Milera, Hall 

INJURIES
Fremantle: Nil 
St Kilda: Nil 

SUBSTITUTES 
Fremantle: Nat Fyfe (not used) 
St Kilda: Jack Carroll (replaced Dan Butler in the fourth quarter)  

Crowd: 41,600 at Optus Stadium