1884 VFA season

8th season of the Victorian Football Association December 2017 December 2017 1884 3 May – 27 September 1884Pennings 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 Geelong fc 1884.jpg 260px Geelong – 1884 VFA premiers 8 6 white 1883 VFA season 1883 white 1885 VFA season 1885 The 1884 VFA season was the eighth 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 sixth VFA premiership in just seven seasons, and the third 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 thumb|upright|Poster showing star players of the 1884 season. Two players from each club surround the central portrait of Carlton's George Coulthard, the former champion who had died in 1883. The senior metropolitan membership of the Association (including Geelong) increased from six to eight clubs in 1884. The two new clubs were the Williamstown Football Club, which was elevated from junior status after merging with BatteryUnited, and the newly established Fitzroy Football Club.Q. B. Review of the Season https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/270757646 Williamstown Advertiser 7 June 2025 3 9 October 1886 By the amalgamation of the Battery United, then a promising junior club, the Williamstown were enabled to enter the senior ranks. At this time, three other provincial senior clubs were full Association members represented on the Board of Management: Ballarat, South Ballarat (formerly known as 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. 1884 VFA premiership The 1884 premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, which won twenty-two and drew one of its twenty-five matches. finished second with sixteen wins and two draws from twenty-four matches; Hotham finished third. Club records The below table details the playing records of the eight clubs in all matches during the 1884 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) 14 12 1 1 67 27 25 22 2 1 141 52 2 17 10 5 2 57 44 24 16 6 2 99 59 3 18 8 7 3 47 47 22 12 7 3 65 48 16 7 8 1 27 29 22 9 10 3 34 42 19 6 8 5 42 42 23 9 9 5 54 48 17 6 9 2 39 53 24 11 9 4 64 67 18 6 11 1 38 54 26 10 13 3 64 74 13 2 8 3 20 41 21 8 8 5 41 46 Source:Goal Post FOOTBALL GOSSIP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229814085 Sportsman 5 June 2025 2 1 October 1884TABLE OF SENIOR FOOTBALL MATCHES https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229814076 Sportsman 5 June 2025 2 1 October 1884Pindar Peter The football season of 1884 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138095916 The Australasian 5 June 2025 22 4 October 1884 (P) Premiers See also 1884 Victorian football season References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA