1931 VFA season

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1931 VFA premiership season
Teams12
Premiers Oakleigh
2nd premiership
Minor premiers Oakleigh
2nd minor premiership
Attendance
Matches played113
Total attendance446,500 (3,951 per match)
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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.

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Premiership

After playing sectional games in 1930, the Association reverted to a simple season format, with each club playing eighteen home-and-home matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1931 VFA ladder
TEAMPWLDPFPAPctPTS
1 Oakleigh (P)1814401546104767.756
2 Port Melbourne 1814401502108972.556
3 Preston 1812511418127392.650
4 Northcote 1812601620117172.348
5 Yarraville 1811611386132895.846
6 Coburg 1811701371134297.944
7 Brunswick 189901386123689.236
8 Sandringham 18810016651796107.932
9 Prahran 18711012831492115.828
10 Williamstown 18513012091476122.120
11 Brighton 18216012371798145.48
12 Camberwell 18216011641734149.08
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [1]

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 5 September Port Melbourne 5.8 (38)def. by Northcote 9.11 (65)Brunswick Cricket Ground (crowd: 9,000) [2]
Saturday, 12 September Oakleigh 6.8 (44)def. by Preston 9.13 (67) Coburg Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,000) [3]
Final
Saturday, 19 September Preston 7.9 (51)def. by Northcote 11.22 (88) Coburg Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000) [4]
1931 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 26 September Oakleigh def. Northcote Port Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 10,000) [1]
2.3 (15)
3.7 (25)
7.11 (53)
 10.14 (74)		Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final		2.1 (13)
4.3 (27)
9.3 (57)
 11.5 (71)		Umpires: Stuart
Fraser 3, Rodwell 3, Maher 2, Crameri, DolanGoalsSimmonds 4, Seymour 3, Byrne 2, Corrigan, Ross
InjuriesHumphries (groin), Pruser (concussion)

Awards

Notable events

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Onlooker (28 September 1931). "Association – Premiership decided". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 11.
  2. 1 2 3 Onlooker (7 September 1931). "Association – first semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
  3. ↑ Onlooker (14 September 1931). "Association – second semi-final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.
  4. ↑ Onlooker (21 September 1931). "Association – Northcote wins". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 11.
  5. ↑ Fiddian, Marc (2003), Seagulls over Williamstown, Williamstown, VIC: Williamstown Football Club, p. 55
  6. ↑ Onlooker (30 July 1931). "Football – Association replay". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 10.
  7. ↑ Onlooker (23 June 1931). "Football – Association v. N.S.W.". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 13.
  8. ↑ "Association wins – match in Sydney". The Argus. Melbourne. 17 August 1931. p. 11.
  9. ↑ "Football – match in dispute". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 October 1931. p. 10.

Onlooker (5 September 1932). "Association – Northcote on top". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 12.

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