A West Australian country football club has issued a public apology after photos emerged of its president in a Charlie Kirk costume, featuring a gunshot wound to the neck.

South Bunbury Football Club (SBFC) held an event with a "famous dead person" theme to celebrate its one-point win over Busselton in Saturday's South West Football League (SWFL) grand final.

Club president Nicky Waite was photographed at the event in a red "Make America Great Again" hat, a white shirt with "FREEDOM" written across the front, and fake blood coming from her neck.

The event came two weeks after the American conservative activist was shot dead during a speaking engagement at a university in Utah.

Ms Waite said she did not intend to cause offence.

"I understand my costume may have been interpreted in wa

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