| Season: | 2016 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2016 Football Federation Victoria season was the third season under the new competition format for state-level football (soccer) in Victoria. The competition consisted of seven divisions across the state of Victoria.
| Competition: | NPL Victoria |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | South Melbourne |
| Premiers: | Bentleigh Greens |
| Relegated: | Richmond Northcote City Melbourne Victory Youth |
| League Topscorer: | Milos Lujic (27 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2016 National Premier Leagues Victoria season was played over 26 rounds. The overall premier of this division qualified for the 2016 National Premier Leagues finals series, and competed with the other state federation champions in a final knockout tournament to decide the National Premier Leagues champion for 2016.[1]
| Competition: | NPL Victoria 2 West |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Promoted: | St Albans Saints North Geelong Warriors |
| League Topscorer: | Atilla Ofli (32 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2016 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 West was played over 28 rounds, with each team playing the teams in their conference twice and the other conference once. The top team at the end of the season was promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria, and the second placed team entered the promotion play-off.
| Competition: | NPL Victoria 2 East |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | Kingston City |
| Promoted: | Kingston City |
| League Topscorer: | Brandon Barnes (41 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2015 National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 East was played over 28 rounds, with each team playing the teams in their conference twice and the other conference once. The top team at the end of the season was promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria, and the second placed team entered the promotion play-off.
The NPL2 Season concluded with a single match between the winners of the leagues in the West and East sections, to determine the NPL2 Champion.
| Competition: | Victorian State League 1 North-West |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | Altona Magic |
| Relegated: | Cairnlea Diamond Valley United |
| League Topscorer: | Diellon Memishi (19 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
| Competition: | Victorian State League 1 South-East |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | Mornington |
| Relegated: | Berwick City Frankston Pines |
| League Topscorer: | Caleb Nicholes (19 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
| Competition: | Victorian State League 2 North-West |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | Geelong |
| Promoted: | Geelong Essendon Royals |
| Relegated: | Heidelberg Stars Sunbury United FC |
| League Topscorer: | Verdan Stojanovic (29 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
| Competition: | Victorian State League 2 South-East |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | St Kilda SC |
| Promoted: | St Kilda SC Caulfield United Cobras |
| League Topscorer: | Antun Vulic (25 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
| Competition: | Victorian State League 3 North-West |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | Geelong Rangers |
| Promoted: | Geelong Rangers Westvale SC |
| Relegated: | Western Eagles Darebin United Lalor United |
| League Topscorer: | Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (20 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
| Competition: | Victorian State League 3 South-East |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Winners: | Mazenod United |
| Promoted: | Mazenod United Eltham Redbacks |
| Relegated: | Ashburton United Old Melburnians Croydon City Arrows |
| League Topscorer: | Andrew Mclean (18 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
| Season: | 2016 |
| League Topscorer: | Melina Ayres (22 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The highest tier domestic football competition in Victoria for women is known for sponsorship reasons as the PS4 Women's National Premier League. This was the inaugural season of the NPL Women's format, replacing the previous Women's Premier League format. Only 8 of the 22 applicants were granted licences for the 2016 season,[2] plus the Victorian women's team of the NTC. The 9 teams played a 24-round league competition.
See main article: 2016 Dockerty Cup.
Football Victoria soccer clubs competed in 2016 for the Dockerty Cup. The tournament doubled as the Victorian qualifiers for the 2016 FFA Cup, with the top four clubs progressing to the Round of 32. A total of 202 clubs entered the qualifying phase, with the clubs entering in a staggered format.
The Cup was won by Bentleigh Greens.
In addition to the two A-League clubs (Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City), the four semi-finalists (Bentleigh Greens, Green Gully, Hume City and Melbourne Knights) competed in the final rounds of the 2016 FFA Cup.