1884 Victorian football season

1884 Victorian football season
Date	3 May – 27 September 1884 [1]
←  1883 1885  →

The 1884 Victorian football season was the 15th senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria. ^[2]

Clubs

Founded

Club	League	Ref
Queenscliff	Geelong District	[3]

VFA

Main article: 1884 VFA season

Geelong won the Victorian Football Association (VFA) 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. ^{[4] [5]}

VJFA

1884 VJFA season
Date	3 May – 27 September 1884 [1]
Premiers	Star of Carlton 1st premiership
←  1883 1885  →

The 1884 VJFA season was the second season of the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA). ^[a] Star of Carlton was the premier club for the first time. ^[2] Sandridge changed its name to Port Melbourne during the season, in line with the renaming of the municipality. ^{[7] [8]}

Club records

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA
1	Star of Carlton (P)	20	14	1	5	51	11
2	Port Melbourne	19	13	2	4	46	10
3	Williamstown Juniors	17	14	2	1	34	19
	Britannia	16	10	1	5
	Brunswick	16	9	2	5	29	13
	South Yarra	16	9	4	3	40	22
	North Park	17	10	5	2	17	14
	South Melbourne Juniors	18	9	6	3	24	30
	St Kilda Royal	17	10	4	3	41	29
	Avenue	16	9	5	2	31	18
	Evansdale	17	5	8	4	29	52

Source: ^{[1] [9] [10] [11]}
(P) Premiers

Ballarat District

Ballarat Imperial was the premier club in the Ballarat District competition. ^[12] This was disputed by South Ballarat (which had renamed itself from Albion Imperial at the start of the season). ^{[13] [14]}

Club records

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA
1	Ballarat Imperial (P)	8	6	2	0	27	15
2	South Ballarat	13	8	5	0	43	33
	Ballarat	14	0	13	1	9	59

Source: ^[1]
(P) Premiers

Notes

1. At the time, the term "junior" was used to describe open age football of a lower standard than senior football, rather than under age football. ^[6]

References

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