The Western Bulldogs is a professional Australian rules football club based in the inner-west Melbourne suburb of Footscray, Victoria.The club was founded in 1877 and has competed in the Australian Football League (AFL) since 1925.
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is the major state-level Australian rules football league in Victoria and, starting from 2021, New South Wales and Queensland. The league evolved from the former Victorian Football Association (VFA), and has been known by its current name since 1996. For historical purposes, the present VFL is sometimes referred to as the VFA/VFL, to distinguish it from the present day Australian Football League, which was known until 1990 as the Victorian Football League and is sometimes referred to as the VFL/AFL.
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent and only fully professional men's competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the game. Originally known as the Victorian Football League (VFL), it was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition from the Victorian Football Association (VFA), with its inaugural season commencing the following year. The VFL, aiming to become a national competition, began expanding beyond Victoria to other Australian states in the 1980s, and changed its name to the AFL in 1990.
The 1914 Victorian Football League season was the 18th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
The 1918 Victorian Football League season was the 22nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Sydney William Reeves was an Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL between 1910 and 1919 for the Richmond Football Club.
The 1925 Victorian Football League season was the 29th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, after it defeated Collingwood by ten points in the Grand Final.
The 1940 Victorian Football League season was the 44th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
The 1949 Victorian Football League season was the 53rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
The 1981 Victorian Football League season was the 85th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Syd Dyer, also referred to as Sid Dyer, was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
The 2008 Victorian Football League (VFL) was a semi-professional Australian Rules Football competition featuring thirteen teams from Victoria and one team from Tasmania.
Doug Searl is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy and Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Sidney Christopher "Sid" Dockendorff was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Victorian Football League (VFL) for Richmond and Footscray in the 1930s.
Sidney E. Silk was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the early 1940s.
Alfred Sydney Meehl was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Alfred Ernest Catlin was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Sydney Vincent Conlon was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
VFL Women's (VFLW) is the major state-level women's Australian rules football league in Victoria. The league initially comprised the six premier division clubs and the top four division 1 clubs from the now-defunct Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL), and has since evolved into what is also the second primary competition for AFL Women's (AFLW) clubs in Victoria. The league often runs concurrently with the Victorian Football League (VFL).