| 1907 premiership season | |
|---|---|
 Williamstown FC, premiers | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers | Williamstown 1st premiership |
| Minor premiers | Williamstown 1st minor premiership |
The 1907 Victorian Football Association season was the 31st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, after it defeated West Melbourne in the final by eighteen points. It was the first premiership won by Williamstown, in its 24th season of senior competition.
The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Williamstown (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1046 | 653 | 60 |
| 2 | Richmond | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1387 | 773 | 56 |
| 3 | Footscray | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1006 | 708 | 48 |
| 4 | West Melbourne | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1048 | 813 | 48 |
| 5 | Essendon | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 900 | 760 | 44 |
| 6 | Brunswick | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1077 | 1007 | 36 |
| 7 | Port Melbourne | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 814 | 1007 | 36 |
| 8 | Prahran | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 806 | 1202 | 20 |
| 9 | North Melbourne | 18 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 618 | 1179 | 8 |
| 10 | Preston | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 586 | 1329 | 4 |
| Semi Finals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 14 September | Williamstown 5.11 (41) | def. | Footscray 3.9 (27) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 12,000) | [2] |
| Saturday, 21 September | Richmond 5.7 (37) | def. by | West Melbourne 8.13 (61) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,500) | [3] |
| 1907 VFA Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 28 September | Williamstown | def. | West Melbourne | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 25,000 [4] ) | [5] |
| 4.4 (28) 4.5 (29) 5.9 (39) 7.10 (52) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 0.2 (2) 2.6 (18) 2.9 (21) 3.16 (34) | Umpires: Hurley [6] | ||
| Briggs 3, Addison 2, Gibbs 2 | Goals | P. Johnson 2, Armstrong | |||
| |||||
The Association played two interstate games against the South Australia (represented by the SAFL) during the year. In the first, the Association team fought back from a late three goal deficit to score 3.5 (23) in a row and take a five point lead; but, in the final passage of play, a South Australian rebound led to a mark by Alby Bahr, who kicked a goal after the final bell to win the game for South Australia. The Association won the return game by eleven points.
| 1907 Interleague Matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday, 8 June | V.F.A. 13.14 (92) | def. by | S.A.F.L. 14.9 (93) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 11,000) | [7] |
| Saturday, 27 July | S.A.F.L. 6.11 (47) | def. by | V.F.A. 9.4 (58) | Adelaide Oval (crowd: 9,000) | [8] |
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in eastern states of Australia: Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including reserves teams for the eastern state AFL clubs. It succeeded and continues the competition of the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) which began in 1877. The name of the competition was changed to the Victorian Football League in 1996. Under its VFL brand, the AFL also operates a women's football competition known as VFL Women's, which was established in 2016.
The 1877 Victorian Football Association season was the first in which the Australian rules football competition in Victoria was run under a properly constituted administrative body. The Association was formed with the view to governing the sport via a collective body, made up of delegates representing the clubs. It was the second such body to have been formed, the South Australian Football Association having been formed 17 days prior to the VFA.
The 1886 Victorian Football Association season was the 10th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club. It was the club's seventh VFA premiership, and the last won by its senior team.
The 1888 Victorian Football Association season was the 12th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The 1892 Victorian Football Association season was the 16th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The 1900 Victorian Football Association season was the 24th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club; it was the third premiership in the club's history, and the third in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1898 to 1900.
The 1901 Victorian Football Association season was the 25th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club; it was the second premiership in the club's history.
The 1902 Victorian Football Association season was the 26th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club; it was the first premiership in the club's history.
The 1921 Victorian Football Association season was the 43rd season of the Australian rules football competition.
The 1924 Victorian Football Association season was the 46th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated Williamstown by 45 points in the final on 20 September. It was the club's ninth and last VFA premiership before it, along with North Melbourne and Hawthorn, joined the Victorian Football League the following year; this marked the end of a long period of dominance for Footscray, which had seen it win five minor premierships in a row and four major premierships in six years.
The 1924 match for Dame Nellie Melba's Appeal for Limbless Soldiers, informally known as the 1924 Championship of Victoria, was an Australian rules football exhibition match played on 4 October 1924 between the Essendon Football Club and the Footscray Football Club – who were that season's premiers of the Victorian Football League (VFL) and Victorian Football Association (VFA), respectively. Footscray recorded an upset victory against Essendon by 28 points, giving the VFA one of its most significant victories, on-field or off-field, against its stronger-rival competition. The match raised £2,800 for the fund.
The 1931 Victorian Football Association season was the 53rd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Oakleigh Football Club, after it defeated Northcote by three points in the Grand Final on 26 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, achieved in only its third season of senior competition, and it was Oakleigh's second premiership in a row.
The 1936 Victorian Football Association season was the 58th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Northcote Football Club, after it came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Prahran by 15 points in the Grand Final on 12 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership, all won between 1929 and 1936, and it was the last top division VFA premiership ever won by the club before it left the Association in 1987.
The 1939 Victorian Football Association season was the 61st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, which came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Prahran by nine points in the Grand Final on 7 October. It was the club's third VFA premiership, and it was a strong revival after having won the wooden spoon in 1938.
The 1947 Victorian Football Association season was the 66th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Sandringham by 31 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was the sixth premiership in the club's history.
The 1979 Victorian Football Association season was the 98th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 19th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Geelong West in the Grand Final on 23 September by eight points; it was Coburg's fourth Division 1 premiership, and its first since 1928, ending a 51-year Division 1 premiership drought. The Division 2 premiership was won by Camberwell; it was the first premiership in either division ever won by the club since its admission to the Association in 1926, 53 years earlier.
The 1980 Victorian Football Association season was the 99th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 20th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Coburg in the Grand Final on 21 September by eleven points; it was Port Melbourne's 13th Division 1 premiership, the first of three premierships won in a row between 1980 and 1982, and the fourth of six premierships won in nine seasons from 1974 until 1982. The Division 2 premiership was won by Brunswick; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership, and was won in its first season since relegation from Division 1.
The 1981 Victorian Football Association season was the 100th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 21st season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Preston in the Grand Final on 20 September by 113 points; it was Port Melbourne's 14th Division 1 premiership, the second of three premierships won in a row between 1980 and 1982, and the fifth of six premierships won in nine seasons from 1974 until 1982. The Division 2 premiership was won by Camberwell; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership, and it was the last premiership ever won by the club.
Mark Fotheringham is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Yarraville and Williamstown football clubs in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in the 1970s and 1980s.