1883 VFA season

7th season of the Victorian Football Association December 2017 December 2017 1883 21 April – 29 September 1883Pennings Mark A Golden Era Begins: Football in 'Marvellous Melbourne', 1877 to 1885 https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74662/16/46666_MARK%27S_ORIGINS_OF_AUSTRALIAN_RULES_FOOTY_-_LOW_RES.pdf QUT Origins of Australian Football (Volume II) 3 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250521235327/https://eprints.qut.edu.au/74662/16/46666_MARK%27S_ORIGINS_OF_AUSTRALIAN_RULES_FOOTY_-_LOW_RES.pdf 21 May 2025 28 May 2014 6 5 white 1882 VFA season 1882 white 1884 VFA season 1884 The 1883 VFA season was the seventh season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in the colony of Victoria. won the premiership for the fifth time, making it the club's fifth VFA premiership in just six seasons, and the second in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.Collings Tom Geelong's Premiership History https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/241594/geelongs-premiership-history Geelong Football Club 3 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20241206034152/https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/241594/geelongs-premiership-history 6 December 2024 15 July 2019Riley Michael The Evolution of 'the Premiership' 1870−1888 https://hiddenfootyhistories.org/article137-The-Evolution-of-the-Premiership-1870-1888 3 June 2025 Hidden Footy Histories 11 August 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20250603151201/https://hiddenfootyhistories.org/article137-The-Evolution-of-the-Premiership-1870-1888 3 June 2025 Association membership As the East Melbourne Football Club folded in August 1882, the senior metropolitan membership of the Association (including Geelong) was reduced from seven to six clubs in 1883: , , , Hotham, and . At this time, three other provincial senior clubs were full Association members represented on the Board of Management, for a total membership of nine: Ballarat, Albion Imperial and Horsham Unions.The Argus Melbourne, VIC Victorian Football Association 26 April 1884 5 Due to distance, these clubs played too few matches against the rest of the VFA to be considered relevant in the premiership. Premiership season The 1883 premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, captained by Chas Brownlow of Brownlow Medal fame. Geelong won fifteen and drew three of its twenty-one matches for the season. It was named premiers ahead of runners-up , whose record of eighteen wins and three draws from twenty-five matches was almost equally meritorious. finished third. Club records The below table details the playing records of the six clubs in all matches during the 1883 season. Two sets of results are given: Senior results: based only upon games played against other VFA senior clubs Total results: including senior games, and games against intercolonial, up-country and junior clubs. The clubs are listed in the order in which they were ranked in the Sportsman newspaper. The VFA had no formal process by which the clubs were ranked, so the below order should be considered indicative only, particularly since the fixturing of matches was not standardised; however, the top three placings were later acknowledged in publications including the Football Record and are considered official.Wilson Caroline History of the AFL could be turned on its head https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/history-of-the-afl-could-be-turned-on-its-head-20140620-zsglu.html The Age 12 April 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20230929215206/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/history-of-the-afl-could-be-turned-on-its-head-20140620-zsglu.html 29 September 2023 20 June 2014 + Pos Position on ladder Team Senior results Total results Pld Games played W Won L Lost D Drawn GF Goals for GA Goals against Pld Games played W Won L Lost D Drawn GF Goals for GA Goals against 1 (P) 13 8 3 2 56 41 21 15 3 3 97 54 2 15 8 4 3 46 34 25 18 4 3 58 22 3 16 7 8 1 46 46 24 14 8 2 91 52 14 5 6 3 41 41 21 9 9 3 70 57 17 7 9 1 39 48 24 12 10 2 67 59 15 2 7 6 31 49 21 6 7 8 53 50 Source:Goal Post FOOTBALL https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229814653 Sportsman 4 June 2025 4 10 October 1883 (P) Premiers See also 1883 Victorian football season References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA