The 1906
Victorian Football Association
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...
season was the 30th season of the
Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...
competition. The premiership was won by the
West Melbourne Football Club
West Melbourne Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Its senior side competed in the VFA from 1878 through 1908, its peak as a club coming after it won the 1906 premiershi ...
, after defeating in the close final by eleven points. It was the first and only premiership won by West Melbourne during its nine-season stint in the VFA.
Premiership
The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the
amended ''Argus'' system to determine the premiers for the season.
Ladder
Finals
Notable events
* Boundary umpires were introduced for Association matches for the first time in 1906.
Interleague matches
The VFA's second match against the S.A.F.A. was originally scheduled to be played on an otherwise vacant day in the Melbourne football calendar, with a bye week in both the League and Association, and the V.F.L. team playing in Ballarat. However, the VFL made a change by shifting two of its 4 August matches onto 11 August, much to the VFA's chagrin, severely affecting the crowd at the game.
External links
*
Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League History (1877-2008)
*
List of VFA/VFL Premiers (1877–2007)
References
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Victorian Football League seasons
VFL