2001 VFL season

120th season of the Victorian Football League December 2017 December 2017 vfl 2001 7 April – 23 September 20012001 VFL Men's Premiership Season https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfl/126/men%2527s%2Bpremiership%2Bseason/9/9/2001/advanced Australian Football 20 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250620002712/https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfl/126/men%2527s%2Bpremiership%2Bseason/9/9/2001/advanced 20 June 2025 16 1 3 3 white 2000 VFL season 2000 white 2002 VFL season 2002 The 2001 VFL season was the 120th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the states of Victoria and Tasmania. The season featured 16 clubs and ran from 7 April to 23 September, comprising a 20-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top eight clubs.2001 Reserves https://www.blueseum.org/2001+Reserves Blueseum 20 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250620005515/https://www.blueseum.org/2001+Reserves 20 June 2025 won the top division premiership for the first time, defeating by 37 points in the 2001 VFL Grand Final.51st Annual General Meeting https://boxhillhawks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/BHFC-2001-Annual-Report.pdf Box Hill Hawks 20 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250404010734/https://boxhillhawks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/BHFC-2001-Annual-Report.pdf 4 April 2025 3 December 2001Blake Martin Chugging along nicely http://www.hawkheadquarters.com/article.aspx?articleid=1879 Hawk Headquarters The Age 20 June 2025 https://archive.today/20250620005055/http://www.hawkheadquarters.com/article.aspx?articleid=1879 20 June 2025 5 June 2005 It was Box Hill's third overall senior VFA/VFL premiership, following second division premierships in 1984 and 1986.Hawthorn Football Club's VFL team https://www.hawthornfc.com.au/teams/vfl/vfl-history Hawthorn Football Club 20 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250620010000/https://www.hawthornfc.com.au/teams/vfl/vfl-history 20 June 2025Diamond Brent VFL grand final: Box Hill's journey from Mustangs to Hawks https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/vfl-grand-final-box-hills-journey-from-mustangs-to-hawks-20150925-gjujy7.html Sydney Morning Herald 20 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250620005003/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/afl/vfl-grand-final-box-hills-journey-from-mustangs-to-hawks-20150925-gjujy7.html 20 June 2025 25 September 2015 League membership and affiliations In a continuation of the VFL's amalgamation with the AFL reserves, which had begun in 2000, there were several changes to the VFL-AFL reserves affiliations in 2001.Fiddian, Marc (2004); The VFA; A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877–1995; p. 188 affiliated with . Under the affiliation, the team's nickname was changed from Lions to Tigers to match Richmond's nickname, and the partnership with Fitzroy came to an end, resulting in the team becoming known as the Coburg Tigers. The financial stability brought by the affiliation saved Coburg from extinction, as the club had been in administration since July 2000 and would have been wound up if it had not entered an AFL affiliation.116th ANNUAL REPORT http://members.iinet.net.au/~jocarst/AnnualReport116.html Fitzroy Football Club 19 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20160916202454/http://members.iinet.net.au/~jocarst/AnnualReport116.html 16 September 2016 31 October 2000 , which had been jointly affiliated with Williamstown and Werribee, became fully affiliated with Werribee. affiliated with Williamstown StK affiliated with Springvale In addition to these changes, a new team from Tasmania was admitted to the VFL; the admission was initially on a one-year trial basis, and a permanent licence was ultimately granted. Created and administered by Football Tasmania (later AFL Tasmania), the Tasmanian VFL club was designed to provide an opportunity for state level football in Tasmania to fill the void left by the collapse of the Tasmanian Statewide Football League at the end of the 2000 season.http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/2001review.html 2001 review 31 July 2016 Footystats https://web.archive.org/web/20150627082923/http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/2001review.html 27 June 2015 dead dmy-all The club came to be known as the Tasmanian Devils, and played its home games throughout Tasmania, with five games at York Park in Launceston, four games at North Hobart Oval in Hobart, and one game at Devonport Oval in Devonport in its first season.http://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfl/126/premiership%2Bseason/9/9/2001 2001 VFL Premiership season 13 July 2016 AustralianFootball.com Consequently, there were sixteen teams in the VFL in 2001: eight clubs with VFL-AFL affiliations, three AFL reserves teams, and five stand-alone VFL clubs. Clubs Venues and affiliations Club Home venue(s) Capacity AFL affiliation Queen Elizabeth Oval 10,000 Box Hill City Oval 10,000 Melbourne Cricket Ground 97,000 Optus Oval 35,000Ikon Park https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/princes-park Austadiums 19 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20240918190534/https://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/princes-park 18 September 2024 Melbourne Cricket Ground 97,000 Coburg City Oval 15,000 Windy Hill 10,000 Melbourne Cricket Ground 97,000Pande Chinmaya The magic of the MCG https://m.rediff.com/sports/1999/dec/29mcg1.htm Rediff 19 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250619145655/https://m.rediff.com/sports/1999/dec/29mcg1.htm 19 June 2025 29 December 1999 Frankston Park 5,000 Shell Stadium 28,000The Last Time the Hawks were in Town https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/1592700/feature-the-last-time-the-hawks-were-in-town Geelong Football Club 19 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250619152955/https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/1592700/feature-the-last-time-the-hawks-were-in-town 19 June 2025 5 July 2024 Melbourne Cricket Ground 97,000 Coburg City Oval 12,000 Lavington Sports Ground 20,000 Melbourne Cricket Ground 97,000 Northern Oval 11,000 Genis Steel Oval 5,000 TEAC Oval 6,000 Trevor Barker Beach Oval 6,000 Moorabbin Oval 8,000 Shepley Oval 4,000 Bellerive Oval 16,000 rowspan=3; Devonport Oval 10,000 York Park 15,000 Chirnside Park 8,000 Williamstown Cricket Ground 6,000 Ladder main WDL 5 Ladder true points y 4 2 WER BOX SPR MUR CAR FRA COB ESS WIL PMB SAN NBR GEE NBU TAS BEN 18 2 0 2357 1360 15 5 0 2240 1521 P 13 7 0 1921 1735 13 7 0 1997 1854 12 8 0 1844 1577 12 8 0 1794 1730 11 9 0 1857 1791 11 9 0 1797 1893 10 10 0 1908 1882 10 10 0 1866 1883 9 11 0 1770 1679 8 12 0 1615 1920 7 13 0 1617 1718 6 14 0 1805 1816 5 15 0 1458 2180 0 20 0 1320 2627 #CCFFCC Finals series Qualification QF QF QF QF QF QF QF QF 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. Premiers complete AustralianFootball.com Finals series y 150 70 1 September, Chirnside Park Werribee 17.21 (123) Murray Kangaroos 8.12 (60) 2 September, North Port Oval Carlton Reserves 12.16 (88) Essendon Reserves 11.10 (76) 1 September, North Port Oval Box Hill 10.11 (71) Springvale 8.9 (57) 2 September, Trevor Barker Oval Frankston 12.12 (84) Coburg 10.12 (72) 8 September, North Port Oval Springvale 16.12 108 Frankston 9.16 (70) 9 September, North Port Oval Murray Kangaroos 16.12 (108) Carlton Reserves 13.11 (89) 16 September, North Port Oval Werribee 18.15 (123) Springvale 14.17 (101) 15 September, North Port Oval Box Hill 14.12 (96) Murray Kangaroos 12.12 (84) 23 September, Optus Oval Werribee 7.12 (54) Box Hill 13.13 (91) Grand Final 2001 VFL Grand Final Sunday 23 September (2:10 pm) Werribee 3.3 (21) 4.5 (29) 6.6 (42) 7.12 (54) A Box Hill 6.4 (40) 10.7 (67) 11.10 (76) 13.13 (91) Optus Oval 11,500 The Age (Sports section) Melbourne, VIC Sport details 4 Gordon Oldham 24 September 2001 Davis, Grund, Quigley Norm Goss Memorial Medal John Baird (Box Hill) Mitchell 3, Bowden, Churchill, Contessa, McMahon O'Farrell 3, Passador 3, Pugsley 2, Rock 2, Lord, Picioane, Ries S. Smith, for wrestling with C. Bateman in the second quarter C. Bateman, for wrestling with S. Smith in the second quarter Awards The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal was won for the third consecutive year by Nick Sautner (Frankston), who kicked 73 goals.http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=1-118-0-0-0&sID=54554&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=4834469 Frosty Miller Medallists 4 August 2016 Fox Sports Pulse 25 May 2016 The J. J. Liston Trophy was jointly won by Brett Backwell (Carlton reserves) and Ezra Poyas (Coburg), who each polled 19 votes. Backwell and Poyas finished ahead of Simon Feast (Port Melbourne), who was third with 15 votes.http://www.sportingpulse.com/get_file.cgi?id=672381 Sporting Pulse 4 August 2016 The 2001 review The Fothergill–Round Medal was won by Kristian DePasquale (Coburg).http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=0-118-0-0-0&sID=54554&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=4834467 Fothergill–Round Medallists 20 December 2014 29 October 2014 Sportingpulse Werribee won the reserves premiership. Werribee 17.12 (114) defeated Williamstown 12.15 (87) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 23 September.The Age (Sport section) Melbourne, VIC 8 24 September 2001 Sport scoreboard Notable events In Round 12, 5.11 (41) trailed 13.14 (92) by 51 points at three-quarter time, before kicking ten goals to one to win the game by five points, 15.13 (103) d. 14.14 (98). It was the largest three-quarter time deficit overcome in a VFA/VFL game since 1949.https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfl/126/premiership%2Bseason/9/9/2001 2001 VFL Premiership Season 6 June 2022 AustralianFootball.comhttps://www.afl.com.au/news/758021/vfl-rd7-dolphins-produce-a-saturday-night-stunner VFL Rd7: Dolphins produce a Saturday night stunner 8 May 2022 6 June 2022 Australian Football League Brendan Rhodes See also List of VFA/VFL premiers Australian rules football Victorian Football League Australian Football League 2001 AFL season References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFL