The 2006

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 ...

(VFL) is a semi-professional

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competition featuring 12 teams from

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and one team from

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. It was the 125th 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.

League affiliations

Prior to the 2006 season, the VFL-AFL reserves affiliation which had existed for the previous three seasons between

North Melbourne North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. North Melbourne recorded a population of 14,953 at the ...

and

Port Melbourne Port Melbourne is an inner-city List of Melbourne suburbs, suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the Cities of ...

was terminated. In its place, North Melbourne arranged to be affiliated with both

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and

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, with half of its reserves players allocated to each team. Port Melbourne continued as a stand-alone senior team in the competition. As a result, the competition stayed constant at thirteen teams: ten VFL-AFL affiliations, one AFL reserves team () and two stand-alone VFL teams (Port Melbourne and Frankston). Prior to the season, Springvale came to an arrangement with the City of Casey to relocate to the new

Casey Fields Casey Fields is a $30 million, 70 hectare multi-sports complex in the City of Casey at Cranbourne East a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The complex is home to Australian rules football, cricket, netball, soccer, tennis, cycling, go ...

multi-sports complex in

Cranbourne East Cranbourne East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 45 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey local government area. Cranbourne East recorded a population of 24,679 at the . ...

. The club changed its name to the Casey Scorpions.

Ladder

Finals Series

Grand Final

Season Awards

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

Aaron Edwards Aaron Edwards (born 2 March 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles, North Melbourne Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Edwards also pla ...

( Frankston), who kicked 88 goals. *The J. J. Liston Trophy was also won by Aaron Edwards (Frankston), who polled 18 votes. Edwards finished ahead of Brett Johnson ( Williamstown), who was second with 17 votes, and

Daniel Harford Daniel Harford (born 19 March 1977) is the senior coach of the Carlton Football Club in the AFL Women's league and a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Footb ...

(

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 ...

), who was third with 14 votes. *The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by

Jason Davenport Jason Davenport (born 4 September 1985) is a former Australian Rules Footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Career A former basketballer and sprinter in ...

( Geelong reserves). * Box Hill won the reserves premiership. Box Hill 10.11 (71) defeated Williamstown 8.11 (59) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 24 September.

VFL Team of the Year

References

External links

AFL Victoria websiteTRUenergy VFL website
{{VFA/VFL seasons Victorian Football League seasons VFL