1883 VFA season

1883 Premiership season
Teams 6
Premiers Geelong
(5th premiership)
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The 1883 Victorian Football Association season was the seventh season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership in just six seasons, and was the second in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.

Association membership

The East Melbourne Football Club had dropped out of the Association and folded during 1882, reducing the size of the Association to six teams. The 1883 premiership was contested by those same six teams.

1883 VFA premiership

The 1883 premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club. Geelong won fifteen and drew three of its twenty-one matches for the season. It was awarded the premiership ahead of runners-up South Melbourne, whose record of eighteen wins and three draws from twenty-five matches was almost equally meritorious. Carlton finished third.

Club senior records

The below table details the playing records of the six clubs in all matches during the 1883 season. Two sets of results are given:

The clubs are listed in the order in which they were ranked in the Sportsman 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.

1883 VFA Results
Senior Results Total Results
TEAM P W L D GF GA P W L D GF GA
1 Geelong (P) 13 8 3 2 56 41 21 15 3 3 97 54
2 South Melbourne 15 8 4 3 46 34 25 18 4 3 58 22
3 Carlton 16 7 8 1 46 46 24 14 8 2 91 52
Essendon 14 5 6 3 41 41 21 9 9 3 70 57
Melbourne 17 7 9 1 39 48 24 12 10 2 67 59
Hotham 15 2 7 6 31 49 21 6 7 8 53 50
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers Source:[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Goal Post (10 October 1883). "Football". The Sportsman (Melbourne, VIC). p. 4.