| 1899 premiership season | |
|---|---|
 Footscray FC, premier team | |
| Teams | 8 |
| Premiers | Footscray (2nd premiership) |
The 1899 Victorian Football Association season was the 23rd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the second premiership in the club's history, and the second in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.
The size of the association increased from six teams to eight in 1899, with two senior clubs joining the association: Prahran and West Melbourne. West Melbourne was invited to join the association as a senior club after having previously competed in the Victorian Junior Football Association; [1] it accepted the invitation, [2] but with no ground of suitable standard available in its district, West Melbourne shared tenancy of the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve as a venue for home matches. [3] Prahran was newly formed as a senior club in 1899; [4] it was the second time that Prahran had been represented by a senior club in the VFA, after a previous unrelated Prahran club had competed from 1886 to 1887 before merging with neighbouring St Kilda. [5] The new club played its matches at the Hawksburn Cricket Ground (Toorak Park) in Armadale. [6]
The premiership was decided on the basis of the best record across twenty-one rostered matches, with each club playing the others three times. For the first time, each team had a calculated 'average' (known today as 'percentage'), calculated as the ratio of points scored to points conceded; this was used to break ties in the final placings.
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | Avg | PTS | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Footscray (P) | 21 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 1078 | 448 | 2.31 | 72 | |||
| 2 | North Melbourne | 21 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1140 | 664 | 1.71 | 68 | |||
| 3 | Port Melbourne | 21 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 869 | 780 | 1.11 | 52 | |||
| 4 | Williamstown | 21 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 694 | 647 | 1.07 | 44 | |||
| 5 | Prahran | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 678 | 897 | 0.75 | 32 | |||
| 6 | Richmond | 21 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 655 | 909 | 0.71 | 32 | |||
| 7 | West Melbourne | 21 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 759 | 861 | 0.88 | 24 | |||
| 8 | Brunswick | 21 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 507 | 1174 | 0.43 | 12 | |||
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Avg = Average, (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points | Source [7] | |||||||||||
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