1882 VFA season
| 1882 VFA Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 7 |
| Premiers |
Geelong (4th premiership) |
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The 1882 Victorian Football Association season was the sixth season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club. It was the club's fourth VFA premiership in just five seasons, and was the first in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.
Association membership
The 1882 season was contested by the same seven senior clubs as the previous year. However, during the season, the financially struggling East Melbourne Football Club dropped to junior status and folded by the end of the year.[1]
1882 VFA premiership
The 1882 premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club. Geelong won ten and drew two of its thirteen senior matches for the season, a considerably better record than second-placed Essendon, which won five and drew five of its twelve senior matches.
Club senior records
The below table details the playing records of the seven clubs in all matches during the 1882 season, where the information is available. Two sets of results are given:
- Senior results: based only upon games played against other VFA senior clubs
- Total results: including senior games, and games against intercolonial, up-country and junior clubs.
The clubs are listed in the order in which they were ranked in the Australasian newspaper. However, other than announcing the top three place-getters, the VFA had no formal process by which the clubs were ranked, so the below order should be considered indicative only, particularly since the fixturing of matches was not standardised.
Some data is missing from the below table based on the availability of information.
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | P | W | L | D | GF | GA | ||||||
| 1 | Geelong (P) | 13 | 10 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 2 | Essendon | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 3 | South Melbourne | |||||||||||||||
| Carlton | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 70 | 40 | ||||||
| Hotham | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 44 | 51 | ||||||
| Melbourne | 15 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 23 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 53 | 70 | ||||||
| East Melbourne | 14 | 5 | 7 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers | Source:[1] | |||||||||||||||
Notable events
- James Garton replaced Sir William Clarke, MLC as president of the Association. Clarke had served in the role since 1877.[2]
- The leading goalkicker for the season was McLean (Geelong), who kicked a new Association record of 25 goals.
External links
- Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League History (1877-2008)
- List of VFA/VFL Premiers (1877-2007)
- History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1853-1900)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Peter Pindar (7 October 1882). "The Football Season on 1882". The Australasian. XXXIII (862) (Melbourne, VIC). p. 461.. The microfilm version of this reference kept at the State Library of Victoria was missing a section of the original article, which accounts for the information which is missing from this article.
- ↑ Fiddian, Marc (2004), The VFA: a history of the Victorian Football Association, 1877–1995, p. 21
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