| 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, fixtures were standardised under the control of a central committee, with all teams playing 18 premiership matches (i.e. playing half of the other 12 clubs twice and the other half once): thus, the 1888-1893 proportional points system was no longer required.
Prior to 1894, teams had played differing numbers of matches, meaning their final records would be 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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