1886 VFA season

10th season of the Victorian Football Association December 2017 December 2017 1886 1 May – 2 October 18861886 VFA Premiership Season https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfa/193/premiership%2Bseason/8/8/1886/advanced Australian Football 7 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250607012128/https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfa/193/premiership%2Bseason/8/8/1886/advanced 7 June 2025 15 7 Phil McShane( − 51 goals) white 1885 VFA season 1885 white 1887 VFA season 1887 The 1886 VFA season was the tenth season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. won the premiership for the seventh time. It was the club's last VFA premiership won by its senior team.Collings Tom Geelong's Premiership History https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/241594/geelongs-premiership-history Geelong Football Club 7 June 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250603153250/https://www.geelongcats.com.au/news/241594/geelongs-premiership-history 3 June 2025 15 July 2019 Association membership The senior membership of the Association increased substantially in 1886, from ten clubs in 1885 to a record-high fifteen clubs in 1886. Four clubs were elevated from junior to senior status: Port Melbourne (maroon and navy blue), (red, white and blue), StK (red and black) and Prahran (light blue and dark blue). The fifth new club was the newly established South Williamstown Football Club (light blue and white), which came into existence out of a dispute between the existing Williamstown Football Club and the Williamstown Cricket Club: the football club was unable to agree to terms with the cricket club for use of the Williamstown Cricket Ground, forcing the football club to play its matches without charging for admission at the unfenced Gardens Reserve; so the rival South Williamstown Football Club was established, and received permission to play its matches at the cricket ground.The Argus Melbourne, VIC 30 April 1886 The Football Season 6 At this time, five other provincial senior clubs were full Association members represented on the Board of Management: Ballarat, Ballarat Imperial, South Ballarat, Horsham Trades and Horsham Unions. 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 1886 season was dominated by and , the clubs which had between them won all of the previous eight premierships. When the two clubs played their second match against each other for the season on 4 September, both clubs were still undefeated for the year – and, in fact, South Melbourne was undefeated since 1884 – and as such, assuming both clubs continued winning in the final month of the season, this match became seen as a de facto premiership deciding match for the season. The match generated unprecedented public interest, with 25,000–30,000 attending the South Melbourne Cricket Ground – despite the venue being suitable to accommodate around half that number – and the venue took more than £750 at the gate. Geelong comfortably outplayed South Melbourne in the match, and won by the score of 4.19 to 1.5.The Argus The Football Championship 6 September 1886 10 Melbourne, VIC Geelong went on to remain undefeated for the season and was awarded the premiership, its seventh in nine seasons; South Melbourne's loss to Geelong was its only for the season, and it finished as runners-up. finished third. Club records The below table details the playing records of the fifteen clubs in all matches during the 1886 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; this was more noticeably the case in the 1886 season than in other seasons, as the five new senior clubs played few matches against the stronger long-established clubs. South Williamstown, for example, finished with a positive record of 6–3–5 against senior clubs in its first season, but achieved it without playing any of the teams ranked in the top five by the Sportsman. 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) 17 15 0 2 128 23 25 23 0 2 199 51 2 20 17 1 2 97 46 22 19 1 2 119 51 3 20 13 6 1 112 77 22 15 6 1 125 80 19 10 8 1 65 59 24 13 10 1 79 75 23 11 10 2 78 83 25 13 10 2 88 84 21 10 9 2 73 66 23 10 11 2 77 73 19 9 6 4 65 44 23 12 7 4 82 57 14 6 3 5 53 39 19 10 3 6 70 46 20 7 7 6 62 70 21 8 7 6 68 78 17 6 9 2 51 96 21 6 11 4 60 109 18 6 11 1 55 79 22 7 13 2 61 86 21 5 15 1 47 87 23 5 17 1 52 96 13 3 8 2 32 62 18 6 8 4 57 78 16 2 9 5 29 50 18 3 9 6 34 56 20 0 18 2 28 88 21 1 18 2 34 91 Source:Goal Post The past football season https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227686876 Sportsman 6 June 2025 6 6 October 1886Football premiership list for 1886 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227686871 Sportsman 6 June 2025 6 6 October 1886Football premiership list for 1886 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227686871/23307304 Sportsman 6 June 2025 7 6 October 1886Follower The past season https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198356224/21376277 Leader 7 June 2025 20 9 October 1886Follower The past season https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198356224/21376278 Leader 7 June 2025 21 9 October 1886Season 1886 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/142438008 The Australasian 7 June 2025 22 9 October 1886 (P) Premiers Awards Phil McShane () set an Association record by kicking 51 goals for the season (40 in senior matches); the record stood until 1892.The Argus 26 September 1892 Close of the Football Season 6 Melbourne, VIC The second twenty (reserves) premiership was won by .THE JUNIOR PREMIERSHIP https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66156370 North Melbourne Advertiser 7 June 2025 3 1 October 1886 also claimed the premiership. Intercolonial matches A New South Wales representative team toured Victoria during May, playing one fully representative match intercolonial match against an Association representative team. 1886 Intercolonial Matches Saturday, 22 May Victoria 8.20 H New South Wales 3.3 Melbourne Cricket Ground 12,000 The Argus Melbourne, VIC 3 24 May 1886 The Intercolonial Football Match Notable events From 1886, Association matches were played in four quarters instead of two halves. This was primarily done to allow more frequent changes of end, to ensure that changing wind and sunlight conditions were more evenly shared between the teams.Seagulls over Williamstown Fiddian Marc 2003 Williamstown Football Club Williamstown, VIC 11 The Laws of the Game were first amended to allow for a game to be patrolled by up to four boundary umpires, at the agreement of the captains, to execute boundary throw-ins instead of the field umpire.The Sportsman Melbourne, VIC Football - Victorian Football Association 2 December 1885 6 They were used on no more than a couple of occasions during the season,The Sportsman Melbourne, VIC The Laws of Football 1 November 1886 4 and the provision was removed from the laws again at the end of the season.Adelaide Observer Adelaide, SA Intercolonial Football Conference 13 November 1886 16 See also 1886 Victorian football season References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA