| 1894 premiership season | |
|---|---|
 Essendon FC team | |
| Teams | 13 |
| Premiers | Essendon (4th premiership) |
The 1894 Victorian Football Association season was the 18th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club by a margin of fourteen points, finishing with a record of 16 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss from 18 matches. It was Essendon's fourth consecutive premiership.
For the first time, all teams played a fixed number of premiership matches in the season, meaning that the 1888-1893 proportional points system was abolished. Prior to 1894, teams had played different numbers of matches, meaning their final records were adjusted to allow them to be ranked on an equivalent basis. [1]
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Essendon (P) | 18 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 150 | 70 | 66 |
| 2 | Melbourne | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 97 | 72 | 52 |
| 3 | South Melbourne | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 106 | 74 | 48 |
| 4 | Fitzroy | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 75 | 60 | 44 |
| 4 | Footscray | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 78 | 66 | 44 |
| 4 | North Melbourne | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 72 | 67 | 44 |
| 7 | Geelong | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 99 | 80 | 40 |
| 8 | Collingwood | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 69 | 74 | 34 |
| 9 | Port Melbourne | 18 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 70 | 78 | 30 |
| 10 | Williamstown | 18 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 80 | 94 | 26 |
| 11 | Richmond | 18 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 77 | 125 | 18 |
| 12 | St Kilda | 18 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 59 | 119 | 14 |
| 13 | Carlton | 18 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 55 | 108 | 8 |
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