The 1999

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season was the 118th season of the

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competition. The premiership was won by the

Springvale Football Club The Casey Football Club, nicknamed the "Demons" and formerly the "Scorpions", is an Australian rules football club based in Cranbourne East, Victoria. The club, which was known until 2005 as the Springvale Football Club and the Casey Scorpions ( ...

, after defeating

North Ballarat North Ballarat Football & Netball Club, nicknamed ''The Roosters'', is an Australian rules football and netball club based at Mars Stadium in Ballarat. The club currently fields senior, reserve and Under 19 sides in the Ballarat Football Lea ...

by 60 points in the Grand Final on 19 September. It was Springvale's fourth premiership in five seasons, and was North Ballarat's first Grand Final appearance.

Premiership season

Ladder

Finals

Grand Final

Awards

*The

Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal is awarded to the Victorian Football League player who kicks the most goals in home-and-away matches in that year. The is named in honour of Jim 'Frosty' Miller, who was the leading goalkicker of the Victorian Footba ...

was won by Nick Sautner (

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), who kicked 82 goals. *The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by

John Georgiou John Georgiou (born 5 October 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s. Georgiou, recruited from Parkmore, was just 16 years and 210 days old when he mad ...

( Frankston), who polled 21 votes. Georgiou tied on votes with Mark Brebner ( Box Hill), but Brebner was ineligible to share the award, having been twice suspended during the year. *The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by Mark Passador ( Springvale). *

won the reserves premiership for the second consecutive year. North Ballarat 9.6 (60) defeated Springvale 7.15 (57) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 19 September.

Notable events

*The

was struck as a new award for the leading goalkicker in the home-and-away season. The award was named after

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full-forward

Jim 'Frosty' Miller Jim or JIM may refer to: * Jim (given name), a given name * Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James * Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy * OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism * ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring * ''Jim ...

, who kicked 885 goals in a career spanning 1967–1977. *Cash-strapped Coburg entered a partnership with the

Fitzroy Football Club The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy, the club was a member of the Vi ...

during the season. Fitzroy, which had played in the VFA between 1884 and 1896, then in the VFL/AFL from 1897 until 1996, no longer operated a football team following the creation of the

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in late 1996, but it still had an administrative presence. Under what was effectively a sponsorship arrangement, Coburg became known as the Coburg-Fitzroy Lions, taking its new name at the beginning of August. The club retained navy blue and red as its main colours, but adopted Fitzroy's red, royal blue and gold colours as an alternative strip.

References

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