The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in eastern states of Australia: Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, including reserves teams for the eastern state AFL clubs. It succeeded and continues the competition of the former Victorian Football Association (VFA) which began in 1877. The name of the competition was changed to VFL in 1996. Under its VFL brand, the AFL also operates a women's football competition known as VFL Women's, which was established in 2016.
Melbourne University Football Club, often known simply as University, is an Australian rules football club based at the University of Melbourne. The club fields two teams, known as the "Blacks" and "Blues", who both compete in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) in the William Buck Premier Division.
The Victorian Women's Football League (VWFL) was the oldest and largest Australian rules football league for women in the world, consisting of 47 clubs from Victoria, Australia across seven divisions with a total of over 1,000 players.
NRL Victoria is responsible for administering the game of rugby league in the Australian state of Victoria. Victoria is an Affiliated State of the overall Australian governing body the National Rugby League. The VRL commenced in 1952 and has been running each year since.
Soccer in the Australian state of Victoria is organised by Football Victoria (FV). FV is a member of the national Football Australia.
The Southern Football Netball League is an Australian rules football league, based in the south and south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, for both seniors and juniors.
Australian rules football in Victoria is the most watched and second most participated code of football. Australian rules football originated in Melbourne in the late 1850s and grew quickly to dominate the sport, which it continues to. Victoria has more than double the number of players of any other state in Australia accounting for approximately 42% of all Australian players in 2023 and continues to grow strongly. Only Soccer in Victoria has more football participants, though the code's growth in Victoria has made up much ground lost to that code over previous decades such that they have now a similar number of players. The sport is governed by AFL Victoria based in Melbourne. The national governing body, the AFL Commission is also based in Melbourne.
The Vermont Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Vermont, Victoria. They play in Premier Division of the Eastern Football League.
Thomas "Chick" Taylor Drummond was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Ben Warren is an Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Jordan Gysberts is an Australian rules footballer who previously played for the Melbourne Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club in Australian Football League (AFL).
Aaron Mullett is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He also played for the North Melbourne Football Club from 2011 to 2017.
Paul McCormack is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Norwood Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Ben Speight is an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League. He was drafted with the 40th selection in the 2009 Rookie draft and was elevated to their senior list at the end of the 2010 season.
The Euroa Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football and netball club sited in the town of Euroa, in the north-east of Victoria.
The Australian Football League stages the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in the country.
Thomas Couch is a tennis trainer and former professional Australian rules football player. Couch played three games in two seasons for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) but was delisted at the end of the 2013 season.
The 131st season of the Victorian Football League/Victorian Football Association was held in 2012. Geelong won the 2012 VFL Premiership, defeating Port Melbourne in the Grand Final.
The Kilsyth Football Club, nicknamed the Cougars, is an Australian rules football club based in Kilsyth, Victoria, which plays in the Eastern Football League. The club is most notable for its three-year stint in the Victorian Football Association (VFA) second division in the 1980s.
The Mooroolbark Football Club is an Australian rules football club located in Mooroolbark, Victoria. They play in Division 2 of the Eastern Football Netball League.
