| Competition: | VJFL |
| Year: | 1919 |
| Date: | 3 May – 11 October |
| Teams: | 9 |
| Count: | 1 |
| Mpcount: | 1 |
| Nextseason: | 1920 |
The 1919 VJFL season was the 1st season of the Victorian Junior Football League (VJFL), the Australian rules football competition operating as the second-tier competition to the Victorian Football League (VFL).
won the first grand final, finishing the season undefeated.[1]
The Victorian Junior Football League was established to bring a junior club affiliated with each of the VFL senior clubs into a single competition – at this time, junior was the term used for open age football of a lower standard than senior football, rather than for under age football. For the inaugural season, four existing junior clubs – the Fitzroy Juniors, Collingwood District (also known as Collingwood Juniors) and Leopold (affiliated with) and Caulfield (affiliated with) – initially crossed to the new league from the Metropolitan Amateur Association; West Melbourne was affiliated with ; and new junior clubs were formed in Carlton, Richmond and St Kilda., which had left the VFL senior competition after 1914, also entered a stand-alone junior team in the competition.[2]
Shortly before the season, Caulfield withdrew, and a second University team was quickly arranged to take its place for the 1919 season. The two University teams were known as University A and University B.[3]
As was the case in the seniors, once the home-and-away season had finished, the VJFL premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
A number of practice matches were held before the start of the season, including against several Victorian Football Association clubs.[4]
| Team | |||||||
| 1 | Collingwood District (P) | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 64 | |
| 2 | University A | 16 | 44 | ||||
| 3 | Leopold | 16 | 40 | ||||
| 4 | University B | 16 | 40 | ||||
| 5 | Fitzroy Juniors | 16 | 36 | ||||
| 6 | Carlton District | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 32 | |
| 7 | West Melbourne | 16 | 20 | ||||
| 8 | St Kilda District | 16 | 8 | ||||
| 9 | Richmond | 16 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 4 |