2009 VFL season explained

Competition:vfl
Year:2009
Teams:13
Premiers:North Ballarat
Count:2
Minor Premiers:North Ballarat
Mpcount:1
Prevseason:2008
Nextseason:2010

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:

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

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. 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 .
  3. Web site: VFL Confirm Alignment Deal. 13 January 2009. 31 July 2016. Fox Sports Pulse.
  4. Web site: Sewell awarded 2009 JJ Liston Trophy. 15 September 2009. 11 July 2016.
  5. Web site: Fothergill-Round Medallists. 20 December 2014. 29 October 2014. Sportingpulse.
  6. News: Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. Sport. 68. 21 September 2009.
  7. Web site: Bendigo VFL match move. 2 Jun 2009. Fox Sports Pulse. 31 July 2016.
  8. News: VFL gets Power boost. 29 July 2009. 30 July 2016. Pakenham Gazette. Pakenham, VIC.