1875 Victorian football season explained

Competition:Victorian football season
Year:1875 Victorian football
Teams:7
Premiers: (4th premiership)
Prevseason:1874
Nextseason:1876

The 1875 Victorian football season was an Australian rules football competition played during the winter of 1875. The season consisted of matches between metropolitan and provincial football clubs in the colony of Victoria. The premier metropolitan club was, and the premier provincial club was .

1875 premiership

Seven metropolitan clubs participated in senior football during the 1875 season: Albert-park,, Carlton Imperial, East Melbourne,, and St Kilda cum University, a combined team from St Kilda and Melbourne University.

As had been the case for several years, Carlton and Melbourne were considered the dominant clubs in the city, so the premier club was decided based entirely on the head-to-head record between the clubs; in their four meetings, Carlton won three and Melbourne won one, so Carlton was recognised as the premier club for the season.[1]

Club senior records

The below table shows the results for senior clubs during the 1875 season. The list shows the club records across all matches, including senior, junior and odds matches.

The clubs are listed here in the order in which they were ranked in the Australasian newspaper: other than announcing the top three place-getters, there was no formal process by which the clubs were ranked, so the below order should be considered indicative only, particularly since the fixturing of matches was not standardised.

1875 Metropolitan Clubs' Results
No. TEAM P W L D GF GA
1 (P)171214365
2181233439
3Carlton Imperial115242012
North Melbourne11614196
East Melbourne145541812
Albert-park10073222
St Kilda cum University9063121
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, (P) = PremiersSource:[2] [3]

Notable events

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Notes and References

  1. News: The Australasian. 2 October 1875. Football notes. Free kick. 428. 496. XIX. Melbourne, VIC.
  2. News: The Australasian. 9 October 1875. Football notes. Free kick. 460. 497. XIX. Melbourne, VIC.
  3. News: The Australasian. 16 October 1875. The North Melbourne Football Club. Free kick. 492. 498. XIX. Melbourne, VIC.
  4. News: The Australasian. 428. Free Kick. Football notes. Melbourne, VIC. 2 October 1875. XIX. 496.
  5. News: The Age. Melbourne, VIC. Second Twenty Challenge Cup. 13 May 1875. 3.
  6. News: Leader. Melbourne, VIC. Football. 16 October 1875. 12.