| 1899 premiership season | |
|---|---|
 Footscray Football Club, 1899 premiers | |
| Teams | 8 |
| Premiers | Footscray 2nd premiership |
| Wooden spooners | Brunswick |
The 1899 VFL season was the 23rd season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria.
The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club for the second time in the club's history, and the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.
Association membership
[edit]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
[edit]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.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footscray (P) | 21 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1078 | 448 | 2.406 | 72 |
| 2 | North Melbourne | 21 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1140 | 664 | 1.717 | 68 |
| 3 | Port Melbourne | 21 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 869 | 780 | 1.114 | 52 |
| 4 | Williamstown | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 694 | 647 | 1.073 | 44 |
| 5 | Prahran | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 678 | 897 | 0.756 | 32 |
| 6 | Richmond | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 655 | 909 | 0.721 | 32 |
| 7 | West Melbourne | 21 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 759 | 861 | 0.882 | 24 |
| 8 | Brunswick | 21 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 507 | 1174 | 0.432 | 12 |
Notable events
[edit]External links
[edit]- Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League history (1877–2008)
- List of VFA premiers
- History of Australian rules football in Victoria (1853–1900)
References
[edit]- ^ "News and Notes – West Melbourne Football Club". North Melbourne Gazette. North Melbourne. 2 December 1898. p. 2.
- ^ "West Melbourne Football Club – Special Meeting". North Melbourne Gazette. North Melbourne. 3 February 1899. p. 3.
- ^ Half-Forward (15 April 1899). "Football Notes". The Independent. Footscray, VIC. p. 3.
- ^ "A senior club at Prahran". The Argus. Melbourne. 16 March 1899. p. 7.
- ^ Rover (7 April 1888). "Football". The Telegraph, St Kilda, Prahran and South Yarra Guardian. p. 7.
- ^ Markwell (13 May 1899). "Football notes". The Australasian. p. 1028.
- ^ a b Old Boy (18 September 1899). "Victorian Football Association – Final Results". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.