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Prior to 1897, Australian rules football premierships were decided solely on win–loss record across the entire season. To counteract reduced public interest and gate takings when a season had a runaway leader, the Victorian Football League (VFL) had introduced finals in 1897, ensuring the premiership would remain undecided until the end of the year.
Under the administration's new name Football Victoria (later AFL Victoria), those two competitions were merged into a single competition still known as the Victorian Football League. Since this time, the VFL has been contested by a mixture of three types of clubs: VFL clubs, operating on a stand-alone basis and maintaining a complete list of ...
At the end of the 1924 season, the VFL took over the MDFA and replaced it with the VFL Sub-Districts, officially called the Victorian Football League Sub-Districts Association. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] W.H. Smith was elected as the new league's inaugural president, and the first game was played on 2 May 1925 between Oakleigh and Dandenong .
Note: Park also won the VFL's Leading Goalkicker Award in 1913 with 53 goals for the home-and-away season, a remarkable effort considering the team itself scored only 115 goals for the year. Honour Roll
This is a list of University Football Club players who made one or more appearance in the Victorian Football League. University competed in the VFL from 1908 until 1914. Players are listed by the date of their VFL debut with the club. In cases of players debuting in the same game, they are listed alphabetically.
History was made in 1991, with the Brisbane Bears winning the reserves premiership − the first non-Victorian club to win a VFL/AFL premiership in any grade. The Victorian State Football League was established at the end of 1991 to take over administration of football in Victoria from the Australian Football League , which was now becoming ...
The VFL was the most popular and dominant of the state leagues around the country in terms of overall attendance, interest, and money, and began to look towards expanding its influence directly into other states. The VFL and its top clubs already had the buying power to recruit top players from interstate.
The 1911 VFL season was the 15th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured ten clubs and ran from 29 April to 23 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a three-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.