1975 VFA season explained

Competition:VFA
Year:1975
Matches:188
Attendance:880,914
Attendance Footnote:[1]
Teams1:10
Premiers1:Geelong West
Count1:1
Minor Premiers1:Geelong West
Mpcount1:1
Teams2:10
Premiers2:Brunswick
Count2:1
Minor Premiers2:Brunswick
Mpcount2:1
Prevseason:1974
Nextseason:1976

The 1975 Victorian Football Association season was the 94th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 15th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Geelong West Football Club, after it defeated Dandenong in the Grand Final on 21 September by 28 points; it was the first and only Division 1 premiership won by Geelong West in its time in the Association. The Division 2 premiership was won by Brunswick; it was Brunswick's first premiership in either division since 1938.

Division 1

The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the St Kilda Cricket Ground.

Awards

Division 2

The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.

Ladder

1975 VFA Division 2 Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1Brunswick (P)18153022641565144.660
2Camberwell18134121341622131.554
3Sunshine18135021551679128.352
4Frankston18126020881758118.648
5Northcote18126020681991101.848
6Mordialloc188911752177198.934
7Yarraville1871101937216689.428
8Waverley1861202073218095.024
9Werribee1821601429247557.78
10Box Hill1811701578222970.74
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource[3]

Awards

Notable events

Interleague matches

For the first time since 1968, and the first time since its expulsion from the Australian National Football Council, the Association played an interleague representative match.[4] The match was played in Wangaratta against the Ovens and Murray Football League. The match was played during the lean half of a split-round in the Association fixture, and selection in the team was controversially limited to players from the twelve clubs which were idle that weekend – which automatically excluded 40% of Association players from eligibility. Colin Hobbs (Coburg) captained the team.

Other notable events

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: The Age. Melbourne. Marc Fiddian. 23. 25 June 1976. Crowds up at VFA.
  2. News: The Age. 28 August 1975. King Derek. 28, 26. Melbourne. Ken Piesse.
  3. News: The Age. 14. Ken Piesse. VFA stars 100 up. 11 August 1975. Melbourne.
  4. News: The Age. Melbourne. 21. Ken Piesse. 14 June 1975. Geelong West to gain revenge.
  5. News: The Age. Melbourne. 27. Ken Piesse. 19 May 1975. Cook gets 12 of Port's 30.17.
  6. News: The Age. Melbourne. 25. Ken Piesse. 27 July 1975. Waverley exercises right to Cruse.
  7. News: The Age. Melbourne. 23. Ken Piesse. 28 July 1975. Dandenong revives to beat Coburg.
  8. News: The Age. Melbourne. 31. Ken Piesse. 23 August 1975. Port to take flag rehearsal.