[2] The inaugural season saw a single six team league comprising teams form Swan Athletic (originally named Midland), Azzurri, Kwinana United, South Perth United, Balga, Sorrento with Swan Athletic winning the first ever WA Women's Division 1 title.
Eight teams were selected to form the new National Premier League Women Western Australia (NPLW WA) including three existing State Premier League clubs (Northern Redbacks, Balcatta, Fremantle City), the existing Football West National Training Centre (NTC) program team, two clubs from the women's second division (Subiaco AFC, Curtin University) and two clubs that would form brand new senior teams to compete in the NPLW WA (Murdoch University Melville, Perth SC).
Over the history of the Women's First Division, Premier League and NPLW teams have been subject to a number of name changes, relocations and mergers.
The reasoning for many of the relocations and name changes stemmed from women's teams not being truly integrated into traditionally male dominated clubs often having to deal with poor conditions for training and games.
Murdoch University and Melville City SC were separate entities with both clubs fielding teams that had previously competed in women's football.
Melville City SC had previously competed in the first division from 2013 to 2017 making one Cup final during that time.
Nedlands Soccer Club was a relatively young soccer club ironically playing its home games out of Charles Court Reserve, closer to the University of Western Australia than UWA SC's actual home ground in Mount Claremont.
Ascot are historically one of the most successful women's club in WA having won 9 first division titles out of the first 15 years of the competition.
[8] It is unsure how closely the women's team's history is linked to the men's club as the Ascot name remained in existence until 1986.
The following 8 clubs are competing in the National Premier Leagues WA Women's competition for the 2024 season.
Cup competitions have been run irregularly in the history of women's football in WA, mostly due to a lack of numbers until the 1990s.
Sandra Brentnall leads the tally of most player of the year trophies with 6, followed by Stacey Woodfin on 5 and Katarina Jukic on 4.