1892 VFA season

1892 premiership season
1892 premiership season
	Essendon FC players
Teams	13
Premiers	Essendon; 2nd premiership
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The 1892Victorian Football Association season was the 243rd season of the Australian rules football competition.

The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club, which finished with a record of 15 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses from 19 matches. It was Essendon's second consecutive premiership, out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.

Association membership

The size of the Association premiership increased to thirteen senior clubs in 1892, with the newly established Collingwood Football Club competing for the first time. The club was formed from the Britannia Football Club, which had been a leading junior club in the Collingwood area since the establishment of the VFA in 1877,^[1] and had applied to enter the VFA since 1889.^[2]

Ladder

Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 21-match season – e.g., Essendon played 19 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 21/19. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie.

1892 VFA ladder
Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	GF	GA	Pts	Adj pts
1	Essendon (P)	19	15	1	3	131	53	66	72.95
2	Fitzroy	21	15	4	2	141	63	64	64.00
3	Geelong	18	12	4	2	113	71	52	60.67
4	Melbourne	18	10	5	3	103	79	46	53.67
5	Carlton	20	12	7	1	83	71	50	52.50
6	South Melbourne	21	9	8	4	91	85	44	44.00
7	Port Melbourne	20	9	10	1	76	77	38	39.90
8	Richmond	19	8	10	1	87	104	34	37.58
9	St Kilda	18	7	9	2	89	84	32	37.33
10	Footscray	20	6	13	1	59	107	26	27.30
11	North Melbourne	20	4	14	2	55	114	20	21.00
12	Collingwood	18	3	14	1	48	105	14	16.33
12	Williamstown	18	3	14	1	50	113	14	16.33

Source: ^[3]
(P) Premiers

Notable events

Essendon's Albert Thurgood was leading goalkicker in premiership matches for the season, kicking 56 goals. He finished ahead of Fitzroy's Jim Grace (48 goals), Melbourne's Harry Graham (42 goals) and Port Melbourne's Bill Fraser (40 goals). Thurgood sealed the leading goalkicker title by kicking nine of Essendon's ten goals in the final round match against North Melbourne (Grace kicked three goals on the same day), and broke the season record of Phil McShane, who kicked 51 goals for Geelong in 1886.^[3]

References

^ "Victorian Football Association". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1891. p. 6.
^ "The Victorian Football Association". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 29 June 1889. p. 12.
^ ^a ^b "Close of the Football Season". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1892. p. 6.

[1] "Victorian Football Association". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1891. p. 6.

[2] "The Victorian Football Association". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 29 June 1889. p. 12.

[review-3] "Close of the Football Season". The Argus. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1892. p. 6.

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Association membership

Ladder

Notable events

See also

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