Formerly | Victorian Football Association |
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Sport | Australian rules football |
Inaugural season | 1877 |
No. of teams | 13 |
Country(ies) | Australia |
Most recent champion(s) | Port Melbourne |
TV partner(s) | ABC1 |
Official website | www.vfl.com.au |
The Victorian Football League (VFL) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association (VFA), taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria (not counting the Australian Football League. For historical purposes, the present VFL is sometimes referred to as the VFA/VFL. The VFA was formed in 1877, immediately after the foundation of a similar body in South Australia and is the second-oldest Australian rules football league, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that had been the hallmark of the early years of a game which was first played as early as 1850s.
Today, the VFL is one of many regional Australian semi-professional competitions. It comprises 13 teams from throughout Victoria, nine of which have a continuous VFA heritage.
The VFL should not be confused with the previously-mentioned national Australian Football League, which evolved from the former Victorian Football League in the early 1990s. The AFL is now a national competition but still has 10 of its 17 clubs based in Victoria. The VFL broke away from the VFA prior to the 1897 season. Because of its history, it is sometimes referred to as the VFL/AFL. Many Victorian AFL clubs affiliate with VFL clubs, and as a result, the league partly serves as a reserves competition for the AFL.
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The Victorian Football Association (VFA) was founded in 1877 on 17 May. The new governing body replaced an earlier system where club delegates met informally to decide on the rules, the selection of the winner of the Challenge Cup, the division of clubs into Senior and Junior status, and other matters of mutual interest. The VFA continued to list its teams as being of either Senior or Junior status.
Foundation Senior clubs of the VFA were Albert Park, Carlton, East Melbourne, Essendon, Hotham, Melbourne, St. Kilda & Geelong. The Junior section of the VFA originally included such clubs as Ballarat, Hawthorn, Northcote, South Melbourne, Standard, Victoria United, Victorian Railways and Williamstown. During its early years, many clubs dropped in and out and there were erratic promotions between the Senior and Junior sections. Hawthorn, Northcote, Standard, Victoria United, Victorian Railways and Williamstown dropped out within a year or so but Hawthorn, Northcote and Williamstown were all to return at various times.
Interestingly, in the early years, the compilation of fixtures was not done by the VFA but was the responsibility of each club secretary (a system that had evolved before the formation of the Association). Therefore, in a typical season, a club would play against other VFA teams (both Senior and Junior), non-VFA Victorian clubs, and even interstate teams.
At the end of each season, the VFA announced the Premier team. This was usually the club with the most wins, but that may not have been the case if the VFA felt that the leading team had had too many wins against junior clubs. Therefore, there are examples of the Premiership being given to the club with the second-highest number of wins.
From 1878 the Association recorded the number of behinds, but with only goals counting towards a win, thus the number of draws was extremely high. The number of players on the field was usually 20 but when a Senior and Junior team met, the Junior club was usually allowed to field extra players; there were no reserves and if a player was injured the team was a man short.
After 1889, the often-changeable collection of clubs in the VFA became settled at twelve consistent clubs: Carlton, Essendon, Fitzroy, Footscray, Geelong, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda, South Melbourne and Williamstown; they were joined by a thirteenth club, Collingwood, in 1892.
After the 1896 season, eight of the thirteen clubs broke away to form the Victorian Football League (VFL): Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne. All twenty VFA premierships to that stage had been shared by six of those eight clubs. The VFA continued to be an independent body, with only five of its original clubs – Footscray, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown – but within five years it had expanded to ten clubs, a size it maintained until the 1920s. Although its size was constant, its membership was not, with many new clubs lasting only a few years before leaving, and four clubs switching to the VFL: Richmond in 1908, and North Melbourne, Footscray and Hawthorn (who joined the VFA in 1914) in 1925.
In the late 1920s, the VFA expanded to twelve teams, including six new clubs, and those twelve teams remained unchanged for several decades thereafter. Those clubs were: Port Melbourne; Williamstown; Brunswick (joined 1897); Prahran (1898); Brighton (1908); Northcote (1908); Coburg (1925); Camberwell (1926); Preston (1926, after a temporary period between 1903-1911); Yarraville (1928); Oakleigh (1929); Sandringham (1929).
A number of rule changes were adopted during the last years of the 19th Century and the first years of the 20th:
Between at least 1900 and 1902, there was a short-lived VFA 2nd Division consisting of junior clubs such as Heidelberg.
The first regular radio broadcasts of VFA games were made by 3XY, a little after the station commenced operations in 1935. The commentator was Wallace ("Jumbo") Sharland who had earlier been the first to describe VFL matches, that being on 3AR in 1923. (Jumbo Sharland was a former Geelong player and, at one time, a newspaper football reporter.) In 1954 3AK began broadcasting VFA games, albeit only for a season or two. In 1966 Network Ten began to televise Sunday games. The 1970s also saw broadcasts on 3UZ, while local Geelong station, 3GL, broadcast all Geelong West matches. In 1982, the then-dominant Melbourne sports radio station, 3AW, broadcast the Grand Final. In 2003 3AK evolved into sports radio station SEN 1116, and provided a coverage of VFL matches, but this was discontinued after they won the rights to broadcast the AFL (Australian Football League), as from the 2007 season. In the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Radio 1611 Double X began broadcasting VFL matches. The station was the first to podcast replays. (Details of current broadcasts are found below – "Radio".)
During the 1940s, there were talks between the VFA and VFL towards an amalgamation of the two bodies with the VFA initially forming a second division of the VFL. The negotiations broke down over the issue of promotion and relegation. The VFA wanted an automatic promotion of each Division Two premier, while the bottom Division One team at the end of each season, would have been automatically relegated. On the other hand, the VFL wanted these two teams to play off for promotion and relegation.
During the 1950s and 1960s, as Melbourne expanded geographically, the VFA embarked on a deliberate plan to establish its presence in new areas by expanding the number of teams, most of these coming from the newer, outer suburbs. By 1960, the league had expanded to seventeen teams; when the eighteenth club joined in 1961, the VFA was split into First and Second Divisions, the First Division originally having 10 teams, and Second Division eight. There was a promotion and relegation system between the two Divisions, with one team promoted and one relegated each season. Although the league was fairly constant at twenty teams during the 1970s, it expanded again (into the outer eastern suburbs) in the 1980s. At its peak in 1983, there were 24 teams competing in the VFA.
The VFA also pioneered night and Sunday games. After years of losing ground to the VFL, the VFA's launch of Sunday games in 1960 was a turning point for the better. Eventually, most games were played on a Sunday, while the VFL played its games on Saturdays. This was similar to the College/Pro football day divide still present in the US. The Victorian Government supported the VFA's new-found vigour, and banned the VFL from holding games on Sundays. In 1982, the then-dominant sports radio station 3AW broadcast the Grand Final.
The decline of the VFA may be said to have commenced in 1982 when the VFL moved the struggling South Melbourne Swans to Sydney. All Sydney Swans home games were played on Sunday and televised. This move basically destroyed the VFA's television ratings, and in 1986 Network Ten stopped broadcasting matches. This role was later taken on by the ABC, but on a much lower-profile basis. VFA support declined. Increasing player payments and declining financial support and sponsorship forced clubs to leave the association, many unable to finish seasons. With fifteen teams remaining at the start of 1989, the VFA reverted to a single division.
In 1989, after the Seven Network was given exclusive rights to broadcast VFL/AFL, the ABC increased its television commitment to the VFA in lieu of telecasting the VFL/AFL games. It attracted good ratings. Despite this, the early 1990s was a difficult period for the association, with many sides, including stalwart sides such as Oakleigh, Prahran and Dandenong leaving the competition or becoming defunct, and others, such as Williamstown, on the verge of folding.
At its nadir in 1995, only nine teams remained. The teams were a mixture of vintages, with two (Port Melbourne and Williamstown) still in the league from before 1897, three (Preston, Coburg and Sandringham) surviving from the 1920s expansion, and four (Box Hill, Frankston, Springvale and Werribee) surviving from the more recent expansion. In 1996, the VFL began a brief period of expansion into regional areas, with existing powerhouse country clubs North Ballarat and Traralgon joining the nine existing teams. Traralgon's tenure was short-lived but they were replaced by another regional club, Bendigo.
In 1990, the VFL renamed itself the Australian Football League. The VFA evolved into the Victorian Football League in 1995, a change which caused much debate at the time. The new VFL adopted the original League logo, but featured a gold "V" and football, to reflect the colours of the former VFA logo. The logo reverted to the original VFL's blue and white, a few years later.
After the 1999 season, the VFL merged with the VSFL, the latter of which was a reserves competition for the AFL's Victorian clubs (and Sydney). The resulting competition contained a mixture of existing VFL clubs, reserves teams of AFL clubs, and affiliation arrangements between VFL and AFL clubs (whereby reserves players for the AFL would join the senior team of the VFL when not playing in the AFL). The affiliation deals greatly improved the financial viability of the clubs in question, but they diluted their ability to represent their suburb. There have been many changes to the affiliation arrangements in the decade since the VFL and VSFL merged. For a full list of the league's affiliation arrangements since 2000, see Reserves affiliations of Australian Football League clubs.
This new configuration received much media attention at the season launch. The main point of interest was that there were matchups that had not occurred since the 1897 VFA/VFL schism.
Also notable, but short-lived was the playing of feature matches on Monday nights, a time when no AFL matches were played. However, these matches were not shown on free-to-air television, but on Channel 7's C7 Sport subscription channel. This was at a time when pay TV penetration was very poor; there was no access to this channel in most of Melbourne, and in the parts of Melbourne that could receive it there was a much more popular competing subscription platform, Foxtel.
There was also a small continuation of the expansion of the league into regional areas, with the Murray Kangaroos Football Club representing the Ovens & Murray Football League and an expansion into Tasmania, although both of these teams have since folded.
These days the VFL is moderately popular in Victoria, although not nearly as well-supported as the dominant Australian Football League. Matches now attract both traditional fans of the VFA/VFL clubs, and fans of affiliated AFL clubs keen to watch their reserves players in action.
Awarded to the best and fairest player in each VFA season, 1923-41. It was first awarded one year before the VFL's Brownlow Medal but well after the inauguration of the SANFL's Magarey Medal, first awarded in 1898.
Awarded to the best and fairest player in each VFA season, 1933-1940, concurrent with the Recorder Cup.
Awarded to the best and fairest player in each VFA/VFL season, since 1942.
Awarded annually to the leading goal-kicker in the VFL season.
Awarded annually to the player voted best afield in the VFL grand final.
Awarded annually to the most promising young talent in the VFL competition.
Awarded to the player voted best afield for the VFL in interstate football games.
The VFL is classed as a semi-professional competition.
In 2007 the league had a salary cap of $185,000 excluding service payments. There are a significantly higher number of AFL reserves due to affiliations with Victorian clubs, but player payments for these appearances is apparently not included in the VFL's salary cap.
Attendances are small by AFL standards, and generally less than the SANFL and WAFL, with an average of between 1,000–2,000 in attendance.
The VFL does not publish home and away attendance figures as some games are played as AFL curtain raisers, however various sources quote attendances for some games of the stronger clubs that maintain home records of their own.
Year | Grand Final Clubs | Venue | Crowd | Total Finals Series Attendance | |
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2011 | Port Melbourne def Williamstown | Etihad Stadium | 11,879 | [1] | |
2010 | North Ballarat def Northern Bullants | Etihad Stadium | 11,000 | [2] | |
2009 | North Ballarat def Northern Bullants | Etihad Stadium | 14,026 | [3] | |
2008 | North Ballarat def Port Melbourne | Telstra Dome | 11,641[4] | ||
2007 | Geelong def Coburg | Princes Park | 13,842[5] | ? | |
2006 | Sandringham def Geelong | Princes Park | 6,000 | ? | |
2005 | Sandringham def Werribee | Princes Park | 9,000 | 45,118 | |
2004 | Sandringham def Port Melbourne | Princes Park | 8,196 | 38,656 | |
2003 | Williamstown def Box Hill | Princes Park | 10,500 | 43,573 | |
2002 | Geelong def Port Melbourne | Princes Park | 11,500 | ? | |
2001 | Box Hill Hawks def Werribee | Princes Park | 11,500 |
ABC Victoria broadcasts one match a week live on Saturday afternoons during the home and away season, as well as broadcasting most finals matches. In 2006 and 2007 ABC2 showed replays of VFL matches late on Wednesday nights to a national audience.[6]
C31 Melbourne currently covers VFL football on The Local Footy Show and telecasts live league games as well as the TAC Cup, Victorian Country Football League, Victorian Women's Football League and the AFL Victorian Youth Girls Competition.
Commencing in 1993, 3SER-fm (Casey FM) has broadcast at least one VFL match per weekend. It was the only radio station to cover both the VFL reserves and seniors Grand Finals. Their coverage can be picked up on radio on 97.7 FM or via the web on www.3ser.org.au [3].
In 2008, 3WBC 94.1 FM began broadcasting Box Hill Hawks home games. This began with the Round 2 game between Box Hill Hawks and Tasmania. This coverage can also be heard on the web at www.3wbc.org.au [4].
Although no longer broadcasting on a regular basis (see history section) SEN (1116 AM) has reserved the right to broadcast VFL finals and certain other games. They also have a weekly VFL panel show.
In 2009 the VFL announced that, as from the 2010 season, 774 ABC Melbourne will simulcast the ABC TV VFL coverage.
Internet radio station Live VFL (at www.livevfl.com.au [5]) currently broadcasts one VFL game per round.
Details of earlier broadcasts are listed in the History section (above).
*Note: the Northern Blues will switch to a navy blue and white design for 2012, which is yet to be revealed. The guernsey displayed is the 2011 guernsey, when the club participated as the Northern Bullants.
The VFL has undergone significant format changes since its induction which means several clubs have either left the league or changed identity for different reasons.
From 1888, the VFA published a list of the final four clubs at the end of what are now called home-and-away matches. The listings (below) for 1877 to 1887 are based on various newspaper reports as researched by Graeme Atkinson and published in his book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Australian Rules Football ... (1982, The Five Mile Press, Melbourne).
Finals series (initially the Argus system, and from 1933 the Page-McIntyre system) were introduced in 1903 and, therefore from that date, the listing (below) reflects that situation after the finals.
In 1989 the VFA changed from a final four to a final five.
Year | PREMIER | RUNNER-UP | THIRD | FOURTH |
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1877 | Carlton | Melbourne | Hotham | Albert Park |
1878 | Geelong | Melbourne | Carlton | Hotham |
1879 | Geelong | Carlton | South Melbourne | Melbourne |
1880 | Geelong | South Melbourne | Carlton | Melbourne |
1881 | South Melbourne | Geelong | Carlton | Melbourne |
1882 | Geelong | Essendon | South Melbourne | Carlton |
1883 | Geelong | South Melbourne | Carlton | Melbourne |
1884 | Geelong | Essendon | Hotham | South Melbourne |
1885 | South Melbourne | Essendon | Geelong | Carlton |
1886 | Geelong | South Melbourne | Carlton | Port Melbourne |
1887 | Carlton | Geelong | South Melbourne | Fitzroy |
1888 | South Melbourne | Geelong | Williamstown | Carlton |
1889 | South Melbourne | Carlton | Port Melbourne | Essendon |
1890 | South Melbourne | Carlton | Essendon | Fitzroy |
1891 | Essendon | Carlton | Fitzroy | South Melbourne |
1892 | Essendon | Fitzroy | Geelong | Melbourne |
1893 | Essendon | Melbourne | Geelong | South Melbourne |
1894 | Essendon | Melbourne | South Melbourne | Fitzroy |
1895 | Fitzroy | Geelong | Melbourne | Collingwood |
1896 | Collingwood | South Melbourne | Essendon | Melbourne |
1897 | Port Melbourne | North Melbourne | Footscray | Williamstown |
1898 | Footscray | North Melbourne | Port Melbourne | Richmond |
1899 | Footscray | North Melbourne | Port Melbourne | Williamstown |
1900 | Footscray | Williamstown | Richmond | Prahran |
1901 | Port Melbourne | Richmond | North Melbourne | Williamstown |
1902 | Richmond | Port Melbourne | North Melbourne | Williamstown |
1903 | North Melbourne | Richmond | Footscray | West Melbourne |
1904 | North Melbourne | Richmond | Footscray | Port Melbourne |
1905 | Richmond | North Melbourne | Williamstown | Port Melbourne |
1906 | West Melbourne | Footscray | Richmond | North Melbourne |
1907 | Williamstown | West Melbourne | Richmond | Footscray |
1908 | Footscray | Brunswick | Essendon Association | Williamstown |
1909 | Brunswick | Prahran | Essendon Association | Footscray |
1910 | North Melbourne | Brunswick | Essendon Association | Prahran |
1911 | Essendon Association | Brunswick | North Melbourne | Prahran |
1912 | Essendon Association | Footscray | North Melbourne | Brunswick |
1913 | Footscray | North Melbourne | Essendon Association | Brunswick |
1914 | North Melbourne | Footscray | Essendon Association | Williamstown |
1915 | North Melbourne | Brunswick | Williamstown | Port Melbourne |
1916 | In recess – WW1 | |||
1917 | In recess – WW1 | |||
1918 | North Melbourne | Prahran | Brunswick | Port Melbourne |
1919 | Footscray | North Melbourne | Brunswick | Northcote |
1920 | Footscray | Brunswick | North Melbourne | Port Melbourne |
1921 | Williamstown | Footscray | Port Melbourne | Brunswick |
1922 | Port Melbourne | Footscray | North Melbourne | Williamstown |
1923 | Footscray | Port Melbourne | Williamstown | Hawthorn |
1924 | Footscray | Williamstown | Northcote | Brunswick |
1925 | Brunswick | Port Melbourne | Northcote | Coburg |
1926 | Coburg | Brighton | Northcote | Port Melbourne |
1927 | Coburg | Brighton | Port Melbourne | Preston |
1928 | Coburg | Port Melbourne | Brighton | Preston |
1929 | Northcote | Port Melbourne | Preston | Brunswick |
1930 | Oakleigh | Northcote | Williamstown | Yarraville |
1931 | Oakleigh | Northcote | Preston | Port Melbourne |
1932 | Northcote | Coburg | Camberwell | Preston |
1933 | Northcote | Coburg | Port Melbourne | Yarraville |
1934 | Northcote | Coburg | Preston | Prahran |
1935 | Yarraville | Camberwell | Northcote | Coburg |
1936 | Northcote | Prahran | Brunswick | Camberwell |
1937 | Prahran | Brunswick | Brighton | Yarraville |
1938 | Brunswick | Brighton | Northcote | Prahran |
1939 | Williamstown | Brunswick | Prahran | Northcote |
1940 | Port Melbourne | Prahran | Williamstown | Preston |
1941 | Port Melbourne | Coburg | Prahran | Preston |
1942 | In recess – WWII | |||
1943 | In recess – WWII | |||
1944 | In recess – WWII | |||
1945 | Williamstown | Port Melbourne | Coburg | Camberwell |
1946 | Sandringham | Camberwell | Williamstown | Port Melbourne |
1947 | Port Melbourne | Sandringham | Williamstown | Prahran |
1948 | Brighton | Williamstown | Brunswick | Northcote |
1949 | Williamstown | Oakleigh | Brighton | Northcote |
1950 | Oakleigh | Port Melbourne | Brighton | Williamstown |
1951 | Prahran | Port Melbourne | Oakleigh | Sandringham |
1952 | Oakleigh | Port Melbourne | Coburg | Yarraville |
1953 | Port Melbourne | Yarraville | Williamstown | Prahran |
1954 | Williamstown | Port Melbourne | Northcote | Moorabbin |
1955 | Williamstown | Port Melbourne | Preston | Moorabbin |
1956 | Williamstown | Port Melbourne | Box Hill | Brunswick |
1957 | Moorabbin | Port Melbourne | Williamstown | Preston |
1958 | Williamstown | Moorabbin | Port Melbourne | Box Hill |
1959 | Williamstown | Coburg | Sandringham | Oakleigh |
1960 | Oakleigh | Sandringham | Williamstown | Yarraville |
Year | Division | PREMIER | RUNNER-UP | THIRD | FOURTH |
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1961 | 1st 2nd |
YARRAVILLE Northcote |
WILLIAMSTOWN Dandenong |
MOORABBIN Camberwell |
SANDRINGHAM Preston |
1962 | 1st 2nd |
SANDRINGHAM Dandenong |
MOORABBIN Prahran |
COBURG Preston |
WILLIAMSTOWN Box Hill |
1963 | 1st 2nd |
MOORABBIN Preston |
SANDRINGHAM Waverley |
YARRAVILLE Prahran |
COBURG Sunshine |
1964 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Geelong West |
WILLIAMSTOWN Sunshine |
COBURG Mordialloc |
SANDRINGHAM Brighton-Caulfield |
1965 | 1st 2nd |
WAVERLEY Preston |
PORT MELBOURNE Mordialloc |
DANDENONG Northcote |
SANDRINGHAM Sunshine |
1966 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Prahran |
WAVERLEY Geelong West |
PRESTON Northcote |
YARRAVILLE Sunshine |
1967 | 1st 2nd |
DANDENONG Oakleigh |
PORT MELBOURNE Geelong West |
SANDRINGHAM Frankston |
PRESTON Sunshine |
1968 | 1st 2nd |
PRESTON Geelong West |
PRAHRAN Williamstown |
SANDRINGHAM Sunshine |
DANDENONG Werribee |
1969 | 1st 2nd |
PRESTON Williamstown |
DANDENONG Sunshine |
PORT MELBOURNE Coburg |
SANDRINGHAM Box Hill |
1970 | 1st 2nd |
PRAHRAN Coburg |
WILLIAMSTOWN Box Hill |
WAVERLEY Sunshine |
PORT MELBOURNE Brunswick |
1971 | 1st 2nd |
DANDENONG Sunshine |
PRESTON Brunswick |
SANDRINGHAM Caulfield |
OAKLEIGH Yarraville |
1972 | 1st 2nd |
OAKLEIGH Geelong West |
DANDENONG Caulfield |
WILLIAMSTOWN Yarraville |
PRESTON Brunswick |
1973 | 1st 2nd |
PRAHRAN Caulfield |
OAKLEIGH Brunswick |
DANDENONG Waverley |
PORT MELBOURNE Camberwell |
1974 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Coburg |
OAKLEIGH Brunswick |
GEELONG WEST Waverley |
DANDENONG Camberwell |
1975 | 1st 2nd |
GEELONG WEST Brunswick |
DANDENONG Camberwell |
PORT MELBOURNE Sunshine |
COBURG Frankston |
1976 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Williamstown |
DANDENONG Mordialloc |
PRESTON Frankston |
CAULFIELD Northcote |
1977 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Mordialloc |
SANDRINGHAM Yarraville |
C0BURG Camberwell |
BRUNSWICK Oakleigh |
1978 | 1st 2nd |
PRAHRAN Frankston |
PRESTON Camberwell |
PORT MELBOURNE Oakleigh |
DANDENONG Yarraville |
1979 | 1st 2nd |
COBURG Camberwell |
GEELONG WEST Oakleigh |
PORT MELBOURNE Mordialloc |
PRAHRAN Williamstown |
1980 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Brunswick |
COBURG Yarraville |
GEELONG WEST Waverley |
SANDRINGHAM Williamstown |
1981 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Camberwell |
PRESTON Waverley |
SANDRINGHAM Mordialloc |
FRANKSTON Werribee |
1982 | 1st 2nd |
PORT MELBOURNE Northcote |
PRESTON Caulfield |
COBURG Oakleigh |
GEELONG WEST Brunswick |
1983 | 1st 2nd |
PRESTON Springvale |
GEELONG WEST Brunswick |
PORT MELBOURNE Mordialloc |
SANDRINGHAM Oakleigh |
1984 | 1st 2nd |
PRESTON Box Hill |
FRANKSTON Oakleigh |
GEELONG WEST Brunswick |
CAMBERWELL Caulfield |
1985 | 1st 2nd |
SANDRINGHAM Brunswick |
WILLIAMSTOWN Oakleigh |
COBURG Sunshine |
PRESTON Caulfield |
1986 | 1st 2nd |
WILLIAMSTOWN Box Hill |
COBURG Sunshine |
FRANKSTON Prahran |
PRESTON Oakleigh |
1987 | 1st 2nd |
SPRINGVALE Prahran |
PORT MELBOURNE Waverley |
WILLIAMSTOWN Werribee |
FRANKSTON Sunshine |
1988 | 1st 2nd |
COBURG Oakleigh |
WILLIAMSTOWN Sunshine |
PRESTON Werribee |
PORT MELBOURNE Dandenong |
Year | PREMIER | RUNNER-UP | THIRD | FOURTH | FIFTH |
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1989 | Coburg | Williamstown | Box Hill | Springvale | Frankston |
1990 | Williamstown | Springvale | Preston | Coburg | Werribee |
1991 | Dandenong | Werribee | Box Hill | Springvale | Port Melbourne |
1992 | Sandringham | Williamstown | Prahran | Box Hill | Werribee |
1993 | Werribee | Port Melbourne | Springvale | Prahran | Frankston |
1994 | Sandringham | Box Hill | Springvale | Dandenong Redlegs | Frankston |
Year | PREMIER | RUNNER-UP | THIRD | FOURTH | FIFTH | (SIXTH) | (SEVENTH) | (EIGHTH) |
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1995 | Springvale | Sandringham | Port Melbourne | Frankston | Werribee | |||
1996 | Springvale | Frankston | ||||||
1997 | Sandringham | Frankston | ||||||
1998 | Springvale | Werribee | ||||||
1999 | Springvale | North Ballarat | ||||||
2000 | Sandringham | North Ballarat | Carlton | St Kilda | Geelong | Williamstown | Box Hill Hawks | Sandringham |
2001 | Box Hill Hawks | Werribee | Springvale | Murray Kangaroos | Carlton | Frankston | Coburg Tigers | Essendon |
2002 | Geelong | Port Melbourne | Werribee | Coburg Tigers | Box Hill Hawks | Williamstown | Murray Kangaroos | Sandringham |
2003 | Williamstown | Box Hill Hawks | Port Melbourne | Sandringham | Tasmania | Springvale | Werribee | Geelong |
2004 | Sandringham | Port Melbourne | Werribee | North Ballarat | Tasmania | Coburg Tigers | Box Hill Hawks | Bendigo Bombers |
2005 | Sandringham | Werribee | Northern Bullants | Bendigo Bombers | Port Melbourne | Tasmania | Frankston | Box Hill Hawks |
2006 | Sandringham | Geelong | Northern Bullants | Williamstown | Frankston | North Ballarat | Werribee | Coburg Tigers |
2007 | Geelong | Coburg Tigers | Williamstown | North Ballarat | Sandringham | Port Melbourne | Casey Scorpions | Bendigo Bombers |
2008 | North Ballarat | Port Melbourne | Williamstown | Werribee | Casey Scorpions | Frankston | Coburg Tigers | Northern Bullants |
2009 | North Ballarat | Northern Bullants | Port Melbourne | Collingwood | Williamstown | Box Hill Hawks | Casey Scorpions | Geelong |
2010 | North Ballarat | Northern Bullants | Williamstown | Box Hill Hawks | Casey Scorpions | Port Melbourne | Collingwood | Bendigo Bombers |
2011 | Port Melbourne | Williamstown | Werribee | Northern Bullants | North Ballarat | Casey Scorpions | Bendigo Bombers | Box Hill Hawks |
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