1889 VFA season
The 1889 Victorian Football Association season was the 13th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The premiership was won by the South Melbourne Football Club. It was the fourth premiership in the club's history, and the second out of a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1888 to 1890.
Association membership
The size of the Association contracted from 16 senior teams to 12 in 1889. The three Ballarat-based clubs – Ballarat, South Ballarat and Ballarat Imperial – remained senior clubs and continued to contest the Ballarat premiership, but matches played against them by metropolitan clubs no longer qualified for the premiership.[1] University, after a winless 1888 season, dropped out of the Association.
1889 VFA Ladder
Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 21-match season – e.g., South Melbourne played 19 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 21/19. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie.
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | GF | GA | PTS | Adj PTS |
1 |
South Melbourne (P) |
19 |
14 |
2 |
3 |
122 |
49 |
62 |
68.53 |
2 |
Carlton |
20 |
15 |
5 |
0 |
100 |
64 |
60 |
63.00 |
3 |
Port Melbourne |
20 |
13 |
4 |
3 |
93 |
55 |
58 |
60.90 |
4 |
Essendon |
21 |
13 |
8 |
0 |
112 |
55 |
52 |
52.00 |
5 |
Geelong |
20 |
10 |
6 |
4 |
88 |
73 |
48 |
50.40 |
6 |
North Melbourne |
20 |
11 |
8 |
1 |
94 |
75 |
46 |
48.30 |
7 |
Fitzroy |
20 |
10 |
8 |
2 |
86 |
66 |
44 |
46.20 |
8 |
Richmond |
19 |
7 |
11 |
1 |
62 |
102 |
30 |
33.16 |
9 |
St Kilda |
18 |
6 |
12 |
1 |
61 |
114 |
26 |
30.33 |
10 |
Williamstown |
20 |
5 |
13 |
2 |
55 |
73 |
24 |
25.20 |
11 |
Melbourne |
21 |
4 |
16 |
1 |
46 |
142 |
18 |
18.00 |
12 |
Footscray |
16 |
1 |
15 |
0 |
37 |
88 |
4 |
5.25 |
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points, Adj PTS = Premiership points adjusted for a 21-game season |
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Notable events
- Footscray defeated Melbourne 5–2 in its sixth premiership fixture for the season, but the win was awarded to Melbourne on protest because Footscray fielded a player without the proper clearance.[2]
External links
References
- ↑ "The Victorian Football Association". The Australasian XLVI (1203). 20 April 1889. p. 837.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Close of the football season". The Age (Melbourne, VIC). 30 September 1889. p. 6.
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