The 131st season of the Victorian Football League/Victorian Football Association was held in 2012. Geelong won the 2012 VFL Premiership, defeating

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in the Grand Final.

Season summary

For the 2012 VFL season, the Bendigo Football Club changed its name to the Bendigo Gold. The change came after it was announced that 2012 would be the final season Bendigo would be aligned with the Essendon Football Club, with the latter to be fielding its own reserves team in the VFL from the 2013 season. The

Northern Bullants The Preston Football Club, which trades and plays as the Northern Bullants, is a long-established Australian rules football club based in Preston that plays in the Victorian Football League (VFL). It plays its home games at the Preston City Ov ...

also changed their nickname, becoming the Northern Blues and adopting navy blue and white colours in the tenth year of its affiliation with the

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. The top three teams from the 2011 VFL season – Port Melbourne, Werribee and Williamstown – competed in the 2012 Foxtel Cup, with Werribee losing in the Grand Final to WAFL team Claremont.

Casey Scorpions 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 ...

finished on top of the ladder with fourteen wins, however lost both its finals matches to be knocked out of the finals series. Port Melbourne and Geelong progressed to the Grand Final at

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. Geelong won its third premiership as a stand-alone VFL team, with previous victories in 2002 and 2007.

Ladder

Finals

Qualifying and Elimination Finals

Semi Finals

Preliminary Finals

Grand Final

Awards

*The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by

Ben Ross Benjamin David "Ben" Ross (born 23 May 1980) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 2000s and 2010s. A Queensland State of Origin representative forward, he played in the National Rugby League for the S ...

(

Werribee Werribee is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Melbourne City Centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham Local government areas of Victoria, local government a ...

), who polled 20 votes. Ross finished ahead of Tom Couch (

), who was second with 19 votes, and John Baird (

), who was third with 18 votes. *The

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 Footbal ...

was won by

Dean Galea Dean Galea (born 11 January 1985) is an Australian Football player. He won the Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal as the leading goal-kicker in the Victorian Football League in 2012 and 2013, kicking 65 and 55 goals in the respective home and away seaso ...

(Port Melbourne), who kicked 76 goals for the season. *The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by Dean Towers ( North Ballarat) *The top two non-AFL clubs –

and

– qualified for the 2013 Foxtel Cup tournament. *The premiership in the reserves, which was renamed the Development League from 2012, was won by

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. Coburg 16.12 (108) defeated Box Hill 15.11 (101) in the Grand Final, played as a curtain-raiser to the seniors first preliminary final on 15 September at

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References

External links

AFL Victoria websiteOfficial VFL website
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