Hundreds of moments make up the proud football club we all know and love today.

From a match-winning goal, to a gravity-defying mark, to a solid team-oriented effort, our past on-field achievements have brought joy to supporters across the country and have helped to shape and define the direction our future will take.

Season 2011 marks our 25th year, and to help us celebrate, you were invited to have your say on the historic moments you believe have been the most significant to the West Coast Eagles.

All your votes have been tallied up and we are ready to countdown from moment #25. Stay tuned to westcoasteagles.com.au as we’ll be revealing one moment each week until we unveil the single most defining moment in our history at the end of the home and away campaign.

The 1992 season qualifies permanently as the most significant in the history of the West Coast Eagles as the year the club won its first premiership and this moment has been voted in at #2.

In 95 years, the premiership cup had never left Victoria, but on September 26, 1992 at 5.11pm, West Coast became the first interstate team to win a grand final. The team was made up purely of Western Australians which was a historical first and, given the current draft regulations, is unlikely ever to occur again.

Guy McKenna likens the victory to that of the Australian team in the 1983 America’s Cup, ending the longest winning streak in the history of sport.

“I was up at 5.30 in the morning of the grand final watching the America’s Cup and that’s what it felt like,” McKenna recalls.

“I can barely remember my first kiss, barely remember when I got my licence and drove for the first time, but I can’t go past the 92 grand final. It was our first, and we were the first non-Victorian side to do it.”

After trailing by two goals at half-time, West Coast recovered to win the match by 28 points.

Having been offered a pink dummy by a Geelong supporter before the game, Karl Langdon remembers fearing for his life at the main break. Senior coach Mick Malthouse had presented the players with a piece of paper after the warm-up with a slogan which spurred him on in the second half.

“It’s half-time, we come in, we’re behind and I go back to my locker,” Langdon said. “I look in there and there’s this piece of paper. The first thing I see is “death before defeat”.

“I still don’t know to this day whether most blokes had the same feeling as me but I had the real feeling that if we didn’t win the game Mick Malthouse was actually going to kill us.”

Luckily for Langdon and his teammates, Malthouse’s threat was not carried out and the team lived to win another premiership two years later.

Click here to watch past West Coast legends remember the day history was made.