| Competition: | vfl |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Teams: | 21 |
| Count: | 6 |
| Minor Premiers: | Casey Demons |
| Mpcount: | 5 |
| Matches: | 198 |
| Top Goal Scorer: | Chris Burgess (– 52 goals) |
| Liston Trophy: | Tom Gribble (– 30 votes) |
| Prevseason: | 2021 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2022 Victorian Football League season was the 140th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League, a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the states of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The season commenced on 25 March and concluded with the Grand Final on 18 September.[1]
The premiership was won by Casey, after it defeated Southport in the Grand Final on 18 September 2022 by 32 points. It was Casey's sixth Division 1 premiership.
Following its sole season in the VFL, the Brisbane-based Aspley Football Club withdrew from the competition, after reviewing its strategy as a football club and electing to focus on its QAFL and QFA teams and junior pathways without the burden of competing in the state level competition. The club departed with the shortest tenure of any VFA/VFL club in history, playing only ten games in the pandemic-interrupted 2021 season.[2]
Aspley's departure left Southport as the league's sole stand-alone senior club based outside Victoria. A total of 21 clubs held licences to compete in the 2022 season.[3]
| Name | Club | Announced | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danny Younan | 9 September 2021 | |||
| Jacob Ballard | 4 May 2022 |
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| Peter McEvoy | 10 August 2022 |
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| Josh Newman | 17 August 2022 |
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| Kade Answerth | 18 August 2022 | [12] | ||
| Sam Dunell | 22 August 2022 |
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| Luke Bunker | [13] | |||
| Ryan Davis | ||||
| Mitchell Hibberd | ||||
| Liam Hunt | ||||
| Sam McLarty | ||||
| Mack Rivett | ||||
| Edyn Sibbald | ||||
| Tom Silvestro |
Five VFL-listed players were drafted to the AFL during the 2022 draft.[14]
| Name | Recruited from | New club | New VFL club | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitch Cox | Brisbane (AFL) | Pre-season supplemental selection | |||
| Charlie Dean | (AFL) | Rookie draft | |||
| Robbie McComb | (AFL) | Rookie draft | |||
| Garrett McDonagh | (AFL) | National draft | |||
| Paddy McCartin | (AFL) | Pre-season supplemental selection |
Five VFL-listed players were drafted to the AFL in the 2022 mid-season rookie draft on 1 June.[15]
| Name | Recruited from | New club | New VFL club | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Blanck | (AFL) | |||
| Massimo D'Ambrosio | (AFL) | |||
| Kallan Dawson | (AFL) | |||
| Oskar Faulkhead | (AFL) | |||
| Will Hayes | (AFL) |