1931 VFA season

1931 VFA Premiership season
Teams 12
Premiers Oakleigh
(2nd premiership)
Minor premiers Oakleigh
(2nd minor premiership)
Matches played 113
Attendance 446,500 (3,951 per match)
1930
1932

The 1931 Victorian Football Association season was the 53rd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Northcote by three points in the Grand Final on 26 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and it was Oakleigh's second premiership in a row.

Premiership

After playing sectional games in 1930, the Association reverted to a simple season format, with each club playing eighteen home-and-home matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1931 VFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Oakleigh (P) 18 14 4 0 1546 1047 67.7 56
2 Port Melbourne 18 14 4 0 1502 1089 72.5 56
3 Preston 18 12 5 1 1418 1273 92.6 50
4 Northcote 18 12 6 0 1620 1171 72.3 48
5 Yarraville 18 11 6 1 1386 1328 95.8 46
6 Coburg 18 11 7 0 1371 1342 97.9 44
7 Brunswick 18 9 9 0 1386 1236 89.2 36
8 Sandringham 18 8 10 0 1665 1796 107.9 32
9 Prahran 18 7 11 0 1283 1492 115.8 28
10 Williamstown 18 5 13 0 1209 1476 122.1 20
11 Brighton 18 2 16 0 1237 1798 145.4 8
12 Camberwell 18 2 16 0 1164 1734 149.0 8
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[1]

Finals

Semi Finals
Saturday, 5 September Port Melbourne 5.8 (38) def. by Northcote 9.11 (65) Brunswick Cricket Ground (crowd: 9,000) [2]
Saturday, 12 September Oakleigh 6.8 (44) def. by Preston 9.13 (67) Coburg Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,000) [3]
Final
Saturday, 19 September Preston 7.9 (51) def. by Northcote 11.22 (88) Coburg Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000) [4]
1931 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 26 September Oakleigh def. Northcote Port Melbourne Cricket Ground (Crowd: 10,000) [1]
2.3 (15)
3.7 (25)
7.11 (53)
10.14 (74)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
2.1 (13)
4.3 (27)
9.3 (57)
11.5 (71)
Umpires: Stuart
Fraser 3, Rodwell 3, Maher 2, Crameri, Dolan Goals Simmonds 4, Seymour 3, Byrne 2, Corrigan, Ross
Injuries Humphries (groin), Pruser (concussion)

Awards

Notable events

External links

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Onlooker (28 September 1931). "Association – Premiership decided". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 11.
  2. 1 2 3 Onlooker (7 September 1931). "Association – first semi-final". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 12.
  3. Onlooker (14 September 1931). "Association – second semi-final". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 12.
  4. Onlooker (21 September 1931). "Association – Northcote wins". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 11.
  5. Fiddian, Marc (2003), Seagulls over Williamstown, Williamstown, VIC: Williamstown Football Club, p. 55
  6. Onlooker (30 July 1931). "Football – Association replay". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 10.
  7. Onlooker (23 June 1931). "Football – Association v. N.S.W.". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 13.
  8. "Association wins – match in Sydney". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 17 August 1931. p. 11.
  9. "Football – match in dispute". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). 1 October 1931. p. 10.

Onlooker (5 September 1932). "Association – Northcote on top". The Argus (Melbourne, VIC). p. 12. 

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