List of Geelong Football Club reserves team seasons

This is a list of seasons competed by the Geelong Football Club reserves team in the Victorian Football League. Geelong's reserves team has competed in the VFL ^[a] since 2000, winning the league's premiership three times.

Table key

‡	Club finished regular season in first position (minor premiers)
†	Club finished regular season in last position (wooden spoon)
DNQ	Club did not qualify for finals
—	Field not applicable for that season

Season	Club	Home and away results				Finals results	Coach	Captain(s)
		Finish	Wins	Losses	Draws
2000	2000	5th	13	6	0	Lost Preliminary Final	Ron Watt [1]	Rotation [2]
2001	2001	13th	7	13	0	DNQ
2002	2002	1st‡	17	3	0	Premiers (1)		Tim McGrath
2003	2003	8th	8	10	0	Lost Elimination Final
2004	2004	9th	7	11	0	DNQ		James Byrne [3]
2005	2005	13th†	4	14	0	DNQ	Leigh Tudor
2006	2006	3rd	13	5	0	Runners-up (1)
2007	2007	2nd	14	4	0	Premiers (2)
2008	2008	10th	6	10	0	DNQ
2009	2009	8th	9	9	0	Lost Elimination Final	Dale Amos [4]	James Podsiadly
2010	2010	12th	5	13	0	DNQ		Matthew Firman James Podsiadly
2011	2011	9th	6	12	0	DNQ		Matthew Firman Troy Selwood
2012	2012	3rd	13	5	0	Premiers (3)	Matthew Knights [5]	Troy Selwood
2013	2013	1st‡	16	2	0	Runners-up (2)
2014	2014	9th	9	9	0	DNQ		Dominic Gleeson [6]
2015	2015	11th	7	11	0	DNQ	Paul Hood	Jack Hollmer Ben Raidme Jackson Sheringham Ryan Williams [7]
2016	2016	5th	11	7	0	Lost Elimination Final	Shane O'Bree	Rotation [2]
2017	2017	10th	8	10	0	DNQ		Tom Atkins Jake Edwards Ben Moloney
2018	2018	3rd	13	5	0	Lost Semi Final		Tom Atkins [8]
2019	2019	6th	11	7	0	Lost Elimination Final		Aaron Black James Tsitas [9]
2020	Season cancelled due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.							Aaron Black [10]
2021	2021	4th	7	2	0	Finals series not contested [11]
2022	2022	14th	8	10	0	DNQ		Matt Ling Jackson McLachlan [12]
2023	2023	13th	8	9	1		Mark Corrigan [13] [14]	Angus Byrne [15]
2024	2024	4th	12	5	1	Lost Semi-final		Dan Capiron
2025	2025	12th	9	9	0	DNQ

Notes

1. The current Victorian Football League (VFL) was renamed from the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1996. It is a separate competition from the Australian Football League (AFL), which was known as the Victorian Football League from 1897 to 1989.

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