2001 VFL season explained
The 2001 Victorian Football League season was the 120th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The premiership was won by the Box Hill Football Club, after defeating Werribee by 37 points in the Grand Final on 23 September. It was the first top division premiership won by Box Hill in its 51 seasons in the VFA/VFL.
League membership and affiliations
In a continuation of the VFL's amalgamation with the AFL reserves, which had begun in 2000, there were several changes to the VFL-AFL reserves affiliations in 2001.[1]
- affiliated with Coburg-Fitzroy. Under the affiliation, the team's nickname was changed from Lions to Tigers to match Richmond's nickname, and the partnership with Fitzroy came to an end, resulting in the team becoming known as the Coburg Tigers. The financial stability brought by the affiliation saved Coburg from extinction, as the club had been in administration since July 2000 and would have been wound up if it had not entered an AFL affiliation.[2]
- , which had been jointly affiliated with Williamstown and Werribee, became fully affiliated with Werribee.
- affiliated with Williamstown
- affiliated with Springvale
In addition to these changes, a new team from Tasmania was admitted to the VFL; the admission was initially on a one-year trial basis, and a permanent licence was ultimately granted. Created and administered by Football Tasmania (later AFL Tasmania), the Tasmanian VFL club was designed to provide an opportunity for state level football in Tasmania to fill the void left by the collapse of the Tasmanian Statewide Football League at the end of the 2000 season.[3] The club came to be known as the Tasmanian Devils, and played its home games throughout Tasmania, with five games at York Park in Launceston, four games at North Hobart Oval in Hobart, and one game at Devonport Oval in Devonport in its first season.[4]
Consequently, there were sixteen teams in the VFL in 2001: eight clubs with VFL-AFL affiliations, three AFL reserves teams, and five stand-alone VFL clubs.
Ladder
Grand Final
Awards
Notable events
- In Round 12, 5.11 (41) trailed 13.14 (92) by 51 points at three-quarter time, before kicking ten goals to one to win the game by five points, 15.13 (103) d. 14.14 (98). It was the largest three-quarter time deficit overcome in a VFA/VFL game since 1949.[9] [10]
See also
Notes and References
- Fiddian, Marc (2004); The VFA; A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877-1995; p. 188
- Web site: 116th Annual Report: for the year ending 31st October 2000. Fitzroy Football Club.
- Web site: 2001 review. 31 July 2016. Footystats. https://web.archive.org/web/20150627082923/http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/2001review.html. 27 June 2015. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: 2001 VFL Premiership season. 13 July 2016. AustralianFootball.com.
- Web site: Frosty Miller Medallists. 4 August 2016. Fox Sports Pulse. 25 May 2016.
- Web site: The 2001 review. Sporting Pulse. 4 August 2016.
- Web site: Fothergill-Round Medallists. 20 December 2014. 29 October 2014. Sportingpulse.
- News: The Age (Sport section). Melbourne, VIC. 8. 24 September 2001. Sport scoreboard.
- Web site: 2001 VFL Premiership Season. 6 June 2022. AustralianFootball.com.
- Web site: VFL Rd7: Dolphins produce a Saturday night stunner. 8 May 2022. 6 June 2022. Australian Football League. Brendan Rhodes.
