Crowd caps at Optus Stadium will be no more from midnight Saturday, meaning the Fremantle/Hawthorn game on Sunday could be played in front of a full stadium for the first time in 18 months.
Premier Mark McGowan made the announcement on Friday that all venues in WA will be able to operate at full capacity.
“I am pleased to announce that based on the latest public health advice, from midnight tomorrow (12.01am Saturday, 10 April), we will be raising capacity limits for certain indoor and outdoor venues with fixed seating to 100 per cent, with no upper numerical cap,” McGowan said.
“This is a big step forward in the removal of restrictions, one that we can only take due to the hard work from Western Australians across the community, giving health experts the confidence to proceed.
“WA’s major venues such as Optus Stadium, RAC Arena, HBF Stadium’s Main Arena, and HBF Park will be able to have 100 per cent of the fixed seating capacity in the spectator seating and special seating spaces.”
If Sunday’s game sells out, Optus Stadium will be packed to the rafters with just under 60,000 screaming fans.
Next Friday night, West Coast Eagles could now play in front of a full house in their battle against Collingwood.
That game is likely to attract the biggest AFL crowd in Perth since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.