2009 VFL season explained
The 2009 Victorian Football League (VFL) was the 128th season of the Australian Rules Football competition. The premiership was won by the North Ballarat Football Club, which defeated the Northern Bullants by 23 points in the Grand Final on 25 September. It was North Ballarat's second consecutive premiership, and the second in the club's history.
League membership and affiliations
At the end of the 2008 season, the Tasmanian Devils Football Club withdrew from the VFL and disbanded. AFL Tasmania, which operated the club, was focussed on re-establishing the Tasmanian Football League as a statewide competition in 2009, after an eight-year hiatus since the original statewide league's collapse at the end of 2000, and having the Tasmanian VFL club competing for attention and players did not fit with this vision. As a result, the VFL was reduced to thirteen clubs.[1]
Additionally, two pairs of VFL-AFL reserves affiliations were altered:
- ended its nine-year affiliation with Sandringham and entered a new affiliation with the Casey Scorpions.[2]
- ended its eight-year affiliation with the Casey Scorpions and entered a new affiliation with Sandringham.[3]
As a result, the size of the VFL was reduced to thirteen teams: nine VFL-AFL affiliates, two AFL reserves team, and two stand-alone VFL teams.
Ladder
Finals series
Awards
Notable events
- The Bendigo Bombers could not play at their home ground Queen Elizabeth Oval after May because the surface was deemed unfit for VFL football. Bendigo's remaining home games were transferred to Windy Hill, the training ground of its AFL-affiliate .[7]
- The VFL introduced the "23rd man rule". Under the rule, the size of the playing squad was increased to twenty-three (still with eighteen players on the field, but increasing the size of the interchange bench from four to five), provided the 23rd player was a top-age player currently in the TAC Cup, or an undrafted player who had played in the TAC Cup during the previous year. The rule was designed to provide additional senior football opportunities to promising juniors, and improve the alignments between VFL clubs and their TAC Cup affiliates.[8]
See also
External links
Notes and References
- News: The Sunday Age. Brent Diamond. 14 September 2008. Melbourne, VIC. Tasmania kills off Devils in VFL. https://web.archive.org/web/20080915233149/http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/tasmania-kills-off-devils-in-vfl/2008/09/13/1220857908827.html. 15 September 2008. 31 July 2016.
- Web site: Read like a demon: football heroes promoting reading to primary school students . Cenza Fulco . Debbie Lee . 2010 . 30 March 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140204024946/http://conferences.alia.org.au/access2010/pdf/Paper_Fri_1100_Cezna_Fulco.pdf . 4 February 2014 .
- Web site: VFL Confirm Alignment Deal. 13 January 2009. 31 July 2016. Fox Sports Pulse.
- Web site: Sewell awarded 2009 JJ Liston Trophy. 15 September 2009. 11 July 2016.
- Web site: Fothergill-Round Medallists. 20 December 2014. 29 October 2014. Sportingpulse.
- News: Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. Sport. 68. 21 September 2009.
- Web site: Bendigo VFL match move. 2 Jun 2009. Fox Sports Pulse. 31 July 2016.
- News: VFL gets Power boost. 29 July 2009. 30 July 2016. Pakenham Gazette. Pakenham, VIC.
