1904 VFL premiership season | |
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![]() Fitzroy 1904 VFL premiership team | |
Date | 7 May—17 September 1904 |
Teams | 8 |
Premiers | Fitzroy 3rd premiership |
Minor premiers | Fitzroy 3rd minor premiership |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Vin Coutie (Melbourne) 39 goals |
Matches played | 71 |
The 1904 VFL season was the eighth season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs and ran from 7 May to 17 September, comprising a 17-round home-and-away season followed by a two-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
Fitzroy won the premiership, defeating Carlton by 24 points in the 1904 VFL grand final; it was Fitzroy's third VFL premiership. Fitzroy also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 12–5 win–loss record. Melbourne's Vin Coutie won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
In 1904, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.
Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.
Once the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1904 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
Section A | |
Section B |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Fitzroy | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 837 | 594 | 140.9 | 40 |
2 | Carlton | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 634 | 611 | 103.8 | 38 |
3 | South Melbourne | 14 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 727 | 647 | 112.4 | 36 |
4 | Collingwood | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 676 | 632 | 107.0 | 28 |
5 | Essendon | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 632 | 646 | 97.8 | 28 |
6 | Melbourne | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 771 | 754 | 102.3 | 24 |
7 | Geelong | 14 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 635 | 786 | 80.8 | 18 |
8 | St Kilda | 14 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 618 | 860 | 71.9 | 12 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Source: AFL Tables
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Fitzroy (P) | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 954 | 744 | 128.2 | 48 |
2 | Carlton | 17 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 804 | 762 | 105.5 | 42 |
3 | Collingwood | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 867 | 741 | 117.0 | 40 |
4 | Essendon | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 835 | 738 | 113.1 | 40 |
5 | South Melbourne | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 831 | 766 | 108.5 | 40 |
6 | Melbourne | 17 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 947 | 840 | 112.7 | 32 |
7 | Geelong | 17 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 726 | 940 | 77.2 | 18 |
8 | St Kilda | 17 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 708 | 1141 | 62.1 | 12 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 49.1
Source: AFL Tables
Grand final | |||||
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Saturday, 17 September (2:50 pm) | Fitzroy 9.7 (61) | def. | Carlton 5.7 (37) | Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 32,688) | |
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