2005 VFL season

2005 VFL season
Teams	13
Premiers	Sandringham (9th premiership)
Minor premiers	Werribee (4th minor premiership)
Matches played	126
Leading goalkicker	James Podsiadly (Werribee)
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The 2005 Victorian Football League season was the 124th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Sandringham Football Club, after it defeated Werribee in the Grand Final on 18 September by nine points; it was Sandringham's ninth top-division premiership, and the second of three premierships won consecutively by the club between 2004 and 2006.

Ladder

2005 VFL season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
1	Werribee	18	15	3	0	2138	1590	134.5	60	Finals
2	Northern Bullants	18	13	4	1	1690	1343	125.8	54
3	Sandringham (P)	18	12	6	0	1793	1558	115.1	48
4	Bendigo	18	11	7	0	1816	1357	133.8	44
5	Port Melbourne	18	11	7	0	1747	1725	101.3	44
6	Tasmania	18	10	8	0	1724	1615	106.7	40
7	Frankston	18	8	9	1	1486	1440	103.2	34
8	Box Hill	18	7	11	0	1479	1632	90.6	28
9	Williamstown	18	7	11	0	1474	1713	86.0	28
10	North Ballarat	18	7	11	0	1434	1756	81.7	28
11	Springvale	18	6	12	0	1480	1565	94.6	24
12	Coburg	18	5	13	0	1404	1774	79.1	20
13	Geelong reserves	18	4	14	0	1478	2075	71.2	16

Source: ^[1]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals Series

	Qualifying and elimination finals					Semi-finals						Preliminary finals					Grand final
	26 August, Queen Elizabeth Oval
	1	Werribee	19.8 (122)
	4	Bendigo	15.14 (104)			3 September, TEAC Oval
						Bendigo		20.6 (126)
	28 August, TEAC Oval					Port Melbourne		13.10 (88)				10 September, TEAC Oval
	5	Port Melbourne	21.19 (145)									Werribee		15.15 (105)
	8	Box Hill	8.13 (61)									Northern Bullants		11.10 (76)			18 September, Optus Oval
																	Sandringham		11.17 (83)
	28 August, Bellerive Oval											11 September, TEAC Oval					Werribee		11.8 (74)
	6	Tasmania	17.19 (121)									Sandringham		17.19 (121)
	7	Frankston	11.9 (75)			4 September, Bellerive Oval						Bendigo		12.10 (82)
						Northern Bullants		18.9 (117)
	27 August, TEAC Oval					Tasmania		5.14 (44)
	2	Northern Bullants	3.11 (29)
	3	Sandringham	16.20 (116)

Grand Final

	2005 VFL Grand Final
Sunday 18 September (2:10 pm)	Sandringham	def.	Werribee	Optus Oval (crowd: 9,000)	[2]
	2.4 (16) 4.6 (30) 9.12 (66)  11.17 (83)	Q1 Q2 Q3  Final	3.1 (19) 4.6 (30) 5.7 (37)  11.8 (74)	Norm Goss Memorial Medal: Daniel Ward (Sandringham)
Armstrong 2, Motlop 2, Poyas 2, Gallagher, Heffernan, Johnson, Sautner, Williams		Goals	Podsiadly 3, Bandy 2, Birss 2, McCormack, O'Sullivan, Rawlings, Skipper

Awards

• The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal was won by James Podsiadly (Werribee), who kicked 66 goals. ^[3]
• The J. J. Liston Trophy was won jointly by Ian Callinan (Tasmania) and Paul Johnson (Sandringham), who each polled 16 votes. Callinan and Johnson finished ahead of Digby Morrell (Northern Bullants), who was third with 15 votes. ^[4]
• The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by Jackson Barling (Williamstown). ^[5]
• Williamstown won the reserves premiership. Williamstown 16.7 (103) defeated North Ballarat 12.9 (81) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 18 September. ^[2]

See also

• List of VFA/VFL premiers
• Australian rules football
• Victorian Football League
• Australian Football League
• 2005 AFL season

References

1. "2005 VFL Premiership Season". AustralianFootball.com. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
2. "Sport". Herald Sun. Melbourne. 19 September 2005. p. 67.
3. "Frosty Miller Medallists". Fox Sports Pulse. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
4. "2005 Medallists across Australia". Footystats Diary. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
5. "Fothergill-Round Medallists". Sportingpulse. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.

External links

• AFL Victoria website
• TRUenergy VFL website