1899 VFA season

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1899 premiership season
Footscray fc 1899.jpg
Footscray FC, premier team
Teams8
PremiersFootscray
(2nd premiership)
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The 1899 Victorian Football Association season was the 23rd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the second premiership in the club's history, and the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.

Association membership[]

The size of the association increased from six teams to eight in 1899, with two senior clubs joining the association: Prahran and West Melbourne. West Melbourne was invited to join the association as a senior club after having previously competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association;[1] it accepted the invitation,[2] but with no ground of suitable standard available in its district, West Melbourne shared tenancy of the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve as a venue for home matches.[3] Prahran was newly formed as a senior club in 1899;[4] it was the second time that Prahran had been represented by a senior club in the VFA, after a previous unrelated Prahran club had competed from 1886 to 1887 before merging with neighbouring St Kilda.[5] The new club played its matches at the Hawksburn Cricket Ground (Toorak Park) in Armadale.[6]

Ladder[]

The premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across twenty-one rostered matches, with each club playing the others three times. For the first time, each team had a calculated 'average' (known today as 'percentage'), calculated as the ratio of points scored to points conceded; this was used to break ties in the final placings.

1899 VFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Avg PTS
1 Footscray (P) 21 18 3 0 1078 448 2.31 72
2 North Melbourne 21 17 4 0 1140 664 1.71 68
3 Port Melbourne 21 13 8 0 869 780 1.11 52
4 Williamstown 21 11 10 0 694 647 1.07 44
5 Prahran 21 8 13 0 678 897 0.75 32
6 Richmond 21 8 13 0 655 909 0.71 32
7 West Melbourne 21 6 15 0 759 861 0.88 24
8 Brunswick 21 3 18 0 507 1174 0.43 12
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Avg = Average, (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[7]

Notable events[]

  • The leading goalkicker for the season was Daily of Footscray (39 goals).[7]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ "News and Notes – West Melbourne Football Club". North Melbourne Gazette. North Melbourne. 2 December 1898. p. 2.
  2. ^ "West Melbourne Football Club – Special Meeting". North Melbourne Gazette. North Melbourne. 3 February 1899. p. 3.
  3. ^ Half-Forward (15 April 1899). "Football Notes". The Independent. Footscray, VIC. p. 3.
  4. ^ "A senior club at Prahran". The Argus. Melbourne. 16 March 1899. p. 7.
  5. ^ Rover (7 April 1888). "Football". The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian. p. 7.
  6. ^ Markwell (13 May 1899). "Football notes". The Australasian. p. 1028.
  7. ^ a b Old Boy (18 September 1899). "Victorian Football Association – Final Results". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
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