The 2013 Victorian Football League season was the 132nd season of the
Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by who defeated by 21 points in the Grand Final.
League membership and affiliations
Prior to the 2013 season, ended its ten-year
reserves affiliation with the
Bendigo Football Club
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. Essendon began fielding its own
reserves team in the VFL, and Bendigo continued to contest the VFL as a stand-alone senior team.
Foxtel Cup
The top two non-AFL clubs from the 2012 VFL season – Port Melbourne and Werribee – competed in the
2013 Foxtel Cup. Werribee progressed the further of the two teams, losing its semi-final against
WAFL club
East Fremantle
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Etymology
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.
Premiership season
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Source: VFL Season 2013 Results''
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
State Game
Report
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Ladder
Finals
Qualifying and Elimination Finals
Semi-finals
Preliminary Finals
Grand Final
Awards
*The
J. J. Liston Trophy was won by
Mitch Hallahan
Mitch Hallahan (born 23 August 1992) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Hawthorn Football Club and Gold Coast Suns in the Australian Football League (AFL).
AFL career
Hallahan was an all round junior sp ...
(),
Jordan Schroder
Jordan Schroder (born 5 December 1992) is an Australian rules footballer who played for in the Australian Football League (AFL).
Drafted from the Calder Cannons in the TAC Cup
The NAB League Boys (also referred to as simply the NAB Le ...
() and
Steve Clifton (), who all polled 17 votes. It was Clifton's second Liston Trophy.
*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 (
Port Melbourne
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), who kicked 55 goals during the home-and-away season. Michael Lourey (
Frankston) officially finished second with 54 goals; he actually kicked 55 goals, the same number as Galea, but one was annulled as a result of the headcount in
Round 14
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. Including finals, the leading goalkicker for the season was
Ben Warren (
Werribee
Werribee is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Wyndham local government area. Werribee recorded a population of 50,027 at the 2021 census.
Werribee i ...
), who finished with 59 goals, one goal more than Galea.
*The
Fothergill-Round Medal was won by
Kane Lambert
Kane Lambert (born 26 November 1991) is a former professional Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He went undrafted after a junior career with the Northern Knights ...
(
Northern Blues
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 O ...
), who averaged 26 possessions a game and kicked 21 goals in season 2013.
*The top two non-AFL clubs –
Box Hill and
Williamstown – qualified for the
2014 Foxtel Cup tournament.
*The Development League premiership was won by
Williamstown. In the Grand Final, played at
North Port Oval
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on 14 September, Williamstown 11.19 (85) defeated
Box Hill 12.12 (84) by one point; scores were level at 84 apiece when time expired, and Williamstown scored the winning behind after seven minutes of golden point extra time.
See also
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List of VFA/VFL premiers
This page is a complete chronological listing of the premiers of the Australian rules football competition known as the Victorian Football Association until 1995 and as the Victorian Football League since 1996. The Victorian Football Association ...
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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 ...
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Victorian Football League
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 ...
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Australian Football League
The Australian Football League (AFL) is the only fully professional competition of Australian rules football. Through the AFL Commission, the AFL also serves as the sport's governing body and is responsible for controlling the laws of the gam ...
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2013 AFL season
The 2013 AFL season was the 117th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eigh ...
References
External links
AFL Victoria websiteOfficial VFL website
{{VFA/VFL seasons
Victorian Football League seasons
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