1981 VFA season

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1981 VFA Premiership Season
Teams20
Division 1
Teams10
Premiers Port Melbourne
(14th premiership)
Minor premiers Port Melbourne
(13th minor premiership)
Division 2
Teams10
Premiers Camberwell
(2nd D2 premiership)
Minor premiers Camberwell
(2nd D2 minor premiership)
1980
1982

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.

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Rule changes

After trialling it during the 1980 finals series, two field umpires were used during all Division 1 matches in 1981. Division 2 continued to be officiated by a single field umpire during the home-and-away season, and by two field umpires during finals. [1]

One consequence of this was that the Liston Trophy voting procedure changed. Previously, in both the Liston Trophy and Field Medal, the field umpire and each of the two goal umpires had independently awarded votes to the best two players on the ground on a 2–1 basis. This year in Division 1, each field umpire but neither of the goal umpires awarded Liston Trophy votes on the same 2–1 basis as before; in Division 2, Field Medal voting procedures were unchanged. [1]

Division 1

The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the Junction Oval.

Ladder

1981 VFA Division 1 Ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Port Melbourne (P)18162028331751161.864
2 Preston 18126023731804131.548
3 Sandringham 18108019541927101.440
4 Frankston 1810802005208996.040
5 Prahran 1810802032215994.140
6 Coburg 1899021721832118.636
7 Geelong West 1881001870220185.032
8 Dandenong 1871101878208590.128
9 Caulfield 1851302035245183.020
10 Brunswick 1831501607243066.112
Source: [2]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Semi Finals
Sunday, 30 August Sandringham 14.16 (100)def. Frankston 13.5 (83) Junction Oval (crowd: 7,785) [3]
Sunday, 6 September Port Melbourne 22.25 (157)def. Preston 12.14 (86) Junction Oval (crowd: 10,021) [4]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 13 September Preston 28.7 (175)def. Sandringham 26.12 (168) Junction Oval (crowd: 7,171) [5]
1981 VFA Division 1 Grand Final
Sunday, 20 September Port Melbourne def. Preston Junction Oval (crowd: 20,180) [6]
6.6 (42)
9.9 (63)
19.14 (128)
 32.19 (211)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
2.1 (13)
9.4 (58)
11.8 (74)
 15.8 (98)
Umpires: Roy Groom, Barry Fitzpatrick
Cook 8, Anderson 5, Jim Christou 4, O'Riley 4, Evans 3, Goss 3, Davies 2, Ebeyer 2, Swan GoalsHalas 5, Box 2, Boden, Brine, Cooper, Heard, McEwan, McGaw, Marks, Vann

Awards

Division 2

The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.

Ladder

1981 VFA Division 2 Ladder
PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPts
1 Camberwell (P)18144024171504160.756
2 Waverley 18135024441423171.752
3 Mordialloc 18135021391504142.252
4 Werribee 18125122091624136.050
5 Oakleigh 18117022711726131.644
6 Northcote 18117020401738117.444
7 Williamstown 1898121142030104.138
8 Yarraville 1841401688235971.616
9 Box Hill 1821601568277756.58
10 Sunshine 1801801136334134.00
Source: [7]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Semi Finals
Sunday, 16 August Mordialloc 16.20 (116)def. Werribee 13.8 (86) Toorak Park (crowd: 3,580) [8]
Sunday, 23 August Camberwell 30.15 (195)def. Waverley 13.13 (91) Toorak Park (crowd: 5,298) [2]
Preliminary Final
Sunday, 30 August Waverley 20.15 (135)def. Mordialloc 13.16 (94) Toorak Park (crowd: 2,700) [3]
1981 VFA Division 2 Grand Final
Sunday, 6 September Camberwell def. Waverley Toorak Park (crowd: 8,250) [4]
2.3 (15)
7.10 (52)
12.11 (83)
 15.16 (106)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
1.3 (9)
3.4 (22)
8.7 (55)
 11.8 (74)
Umpires: Bill Torney, Frank Vergona
Stevenson 5, Hammond 4, Cook, Chamberlain, Davidson, Hirst, Neilson, OliverGoalsAngelis 2, Davies 2, Styles 2, Venville 2, Beddoe, Brick, Plummer

Awards

Notable events

Interleague matches

For the first time, the Association named separate representative teams for Division 1 and Division 2. The Division 1 team played a match against the Greater Northern Football League, which was a short-lived amalgamation between the Launceston-based Northern Tasmanian Football Association and the north-west coastal North Western Football Union. Division 2 played against the South Australian Football Association, a second-tier senior competition which had been formed in Adelaide in 1978.

1981 Interleague Matches
Sunday, 7 June G.N.F.L. 15.20 (110)def. V.F.A. First Division 15.10 (100) Devonport Oval [9]
Sunday, 12 July S.A.F.A. 6.3 (39)def. by V.F.A. Second Division 6.8 (44) Thebarton Oval [10]

Other notable events

See also

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