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Following the establishment of the Victorian Football Association in 1877, the VFA announced a Premier team. This was usually the club with the highest number of wins but this was not always the case; if a high proportion of wins were against Junior clubs, this would count against the team.
This is a listing of all players to have played in the elite Australian rules football competition that was known as the Victorian Football League (VFL) between 1897 and 1989, and currently known as the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1990.
Victorian clubs have also won 10 of the 19 Championships of Australia. [citation needed] Victoria has produced the most greats in the history of the game. All four of the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Australian Football legends are Victorian: Ron Barassi, Ted Whitten, Bob Skilton and Leigh Matthews.
The Victoria Australian rules football team, known colloquially as the Big V, is the state representative side of Victoria, Australia, in the sport of Australian rules football. The Big V has a proud history, dominating the first 100 years of intercolonial-interstate football. [1]
It succeeded and continues the competition of the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) which began in 1877. The name of the competition was changed to the Victorian Football League in 1996. Under its VFL brand, the AFL also operates a women's football competition known as VFL Women's, which was established in 2016.
The Victorian Football League was established in 1896 when six of the strongest clubs in Victoria—Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, and South Melbourne—broke away from the established Victorian Football Association to establish the new league. [1]
The game was first known as Melbourne rules football. As it spread throughout the country, the game became known as Victorian rules football, and then Australian rules football. The game was shaped in the early years through feedback from clubs, players and spectators.
The Collingwood team that won the VFA premiership in 1896. The Collingwood Football Club was established on 12 February 1892. [7] [8] [9]Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) against Carlton on 7 May 1892. [10]