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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 .
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 ...
The VFL used the system for three seasons, with eight clubs. The season arrangements were: Minor round – a double round-robin among all eight clubs (14 matches).; Major round – the eight clubs were split into two groups based on minor round finishing positions: 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th; and 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th.
In June 1978 the VFL announced their plans to form a new company to oversee a night series that would be broadcast nationally and Australian Football Championships Pty. Ltd. was incorporated on 28 July 1978 to run a rival national night competition, in opposition to the NFL Night Series. By October 1978, The VFL were joined by the WAFL, TANFL ...
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.
Georgia leads the all-time series with Clemson 43-18-4 in 65 meetings. The Bulldogs are 27-7-1 in Athens vs. the Tigers and 12-10-2 at Clemson. UGA is 4-0-1 in neutral site games between the two ...
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 1961 VFL season was the 65th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 15 April until 23 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.