1925 VFL seconds season

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1925 VFL seconds season
Date2 May – 10 October
Teams12
Premiers Collingwood District
4th premiership
Minor premiers Collingwood District
5th minor premiership
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The 1925 VFL seconds season was the 7th season of the VFL seconds competition, the Australian rules football competition operating as the second-tier competition to the Victorian Football League (VFL). This was the first season under this name, having been renamed from the Victorian Junior Football League (VJFL) at the end of the previous season.

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Collingwood District won their fourth premiership, defeating Fitzroy by 24 points. The 18-round home-and-away season began on 2 May, with all teams having one bye. [1]

Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne all joined the competition, having all also been admitted into the VFL as senior clubs. Coburg and Leopold left the competition, with the latter replaced by a South Melbourne reserves team (known as South Melbourne Second Eighteen). [2] [3]

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPts
1 Collingwood District (P)17161064
2 South Melbourne 17134052
3 Fitzroy 17134052
4 Carlton 17134052
5 Richmond 17107040
6 Geelong 1788134
7 Essendon 1789032
8 St Kilda 17710028
9 Footscray 17512020
10 North Melbourne 17413016
11 Melbourne 1721508
12 Hawthorn 1711516

Finals series

Grand final

Grand final
Saturday, 10 October Collingwood District 13.16 (94)def. Fitzroy 11.4 (70) Melbourne Cricket Ground

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References

  1. ↑ "1925 Seconds scores". Tigerland Archive.
  2. ↑ "V.F.L. SECONDS". Trove. The Age.
  3. ↑ "Leopold". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. 18 March 1925. p. 18.
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