2019 VFL season

Last updated
2019 VFL season
VFL Grand Final 2019.jpg
Richmond and Williamstown line up for the national anthem at the 2019 VFL Grand Final
Teams15
Premiers Richmond reserves
1st premiership
Minor premiers Richmond reserves
2nd minor premiership
J. J. Liston Trophy Tom Gribble (Werribee)
(25 votes)
Frosty Miller Medallist Jordan Lisle (Port Melbourne)
(40 goals)
←  2018
2020  →

The 2019 VFL season was the 138th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The season ran from April 2019 until September 2019. [1] The premiership was won by the Richmond reserves, after it defeated Williamstown in the Grand Final on 22 September 2019 by 3 points. It was the Richmond reserves team's first VFL premiership since entering the competition in 2014; and, the club's third VFA/VFL premiership overall including the two premierships won by its senior team in the early 1900s.

Contents

Ladder

PosTeamPldWLDPFPAPPPtsQualification
1 Richmond (P)18162015501144135.564 Finals
2 Footscray 18143116511120147.458
3 Williamstown 18134114421183121.954
4 Essendon 18126016271222133.148
5 Werribee 18117015791236127.844
6 Geelong 18117014871215122.444
7 Port Melbourne 18107115521399110.942
8 Box Hill Hawks 1898114131268111.438
9 Casey Demons 1899012111183102.436
10 Northern Blues 1871101288150085.928
11 Collingwood 1871101090129884.028
12 Sandringham 1861201163148878.224
13 North Melbourne 1851301235177769.520
14 Coburg 1821601204171970.08
15 Frankston 1811701002174257.54
Source: SportsTG
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.

Finals

Qualifying and Elimination Finals

Qualifying Finals
Saturday 31 August (2:10 pm) Richmond 15.10 (100)def. Essendon 15.8 (98) Swinburne Centre
Saturday 31 August (1:00 pm) Footscray 9.10 (64)def. by Williamstown 11.11 (77) VU Whitten Oval
Elimination Finals
Sunday 1 September (2:10 pm) Werribee 12.9 (81)def. Box Hill 5.10 (40) Adcon Stadium
Saturday 31 August (2:10 pm) Geelong 6.5 (41)def. by Port Melbourne 11.11 (77) Adcon Stadium

Semi-finals

Semi-finals
SF1: September 8 (2:10 pm) Essendon 8.7 (55)def. Werribee 7.10 (52) Adcon Stadium
SF2: September 7 (11:40 am) Footscray 4.17 (41)def. by Port Melbourne 8.8 (56) Adcon Stadium

Preliminary Finals

Preliminary Finals
PF1: September 14 (2:10 pm) Richmond 14.15 (99)def. Port Melbourne 10.13 (73) Adcon Stadium
PF2: September 15 (2:10 pm) Williamstown 14.12 (96)def. Essendon 9.16 (70) Adcon Stadium

Grand Final

2019 VFL Grand Final
Sunday 22 September (2:10 pm) Richmond v Williamstown Ikon Park (crowd: 13,165) Report
4.4 (28)
4.8 (32)
5.10 (40)
8.10 (58)		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		0.0 (0)
2.4 (16)
3.8 (26)
7.13 (55)		Umpires: Pell, Rebeschini, Rodger, Porter
Norm Goss Memorial Medal: Marlion Pickett (Richmond)
Television broadcast: Seven Network
Townsend 2, Collier-Dawkins 2, Pickett, Ballard, Naish, MarkovGoalsMaster, Myers, Rodda, Pickess, Kennedy, Wheeler, Ottavi
Pickett, Morris, Eggmolesse-Smith, Collier-Dawkins, BaltaBestHibberd, Dorgan, Wheeler, Meese

Awards

Notable events

See also

References

  1. ↑ "2019 - Hard Yakka / Totally Workwear VFL - VFL". Archived from the original on 2019-03-22. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  2. 1 2 Paul Amy (10 September 2019). "Werribee midfielder Tom Gribble claims VFL Liston Trophy with runaway victory". Wyndham Leader. Werribee, VIC. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  3. ↑ "Scoring Summary" . Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  4. ↑ "Scoring Summary" . Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  5. ↑ "New naming rights for VFL fixture release". Victorian Football League. 19 December 2018.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.