1913 VFA season explained

Competition:	VFA Premiership season
Year:	1913
Teams:	10
Count:	5
Mpcount:	3
Prevseason:	1912
Nextseason:	1914

The 1913 Victorian Football Association season was the 37th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Football Club, after it defeated by one point in the final on 6 September. It was the club's fifth VFA premiership.

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Finals

Notable events

• On June 9, Melbourne City lost to Port Melbourne despite having thirteen more scoring shots, by the score 4.24 (48) def. by 8.7 (55).^[1] The seven-point loss was the closest Melbourne City came to winning a match in its two years in the Association.^[2]

See also

• Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League history (1877–2008)
• List of VFA/VFL Premiers (1877–2007)

Notes and References

1. News: The Argus. Melbourne. 10 June 1913. Association games. 4. Old Boy.
2. Web site: Melbourne City. AustralianFootball.com. 10 June 2013.