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(VFL) was a semi-professional
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competition featuring thirteen teams from
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and one team from
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. It was the 127th season of the
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competition. The premiership was won by the
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, who defeated
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by 45 points in the Grand Final on 26 September. It was the first VFL premiership in North Ballarat's history.


League membership and affiliations

Prior to the 2008 season, there were several changes to the VFL-AFL reserves affiliations: * ended its seven-year affiliation with Williamstown, and began fielding its own reserves team in the VFL, having previously done so in the 2000 season. * ended its eight-year affiliation with
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, and entered a new affiliation with Williamstown. * ended its two-year partial affiliation with
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. Unlike many other VFL/AFL affiliations, which had strengthed their VFL clubs, the North Melbourne–Tasmania alignment had been very unpopular amongst Tasmanian fans, and significantly harmed the VFL club's standing within the state.
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continued to contest the VFL as a stand-alone senior club, and and entered a new partial affiliation with
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 ...
. North Melbourne's other partial affiliation with
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 ...
was unchanged. As a result, the size of the VFL increased to fourteen teams: nine VFL-AFL affiliations, two AFL reserves teams and three stand-alone VFL clubs.


VFL-AFL alignments


VFL season


Ladder


Finals series


Season Awards


Best and Fairest

The VFL Best and Fairest is awarded the
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.


Leading Goalkickers

The VFL Leading Goalkicker at the end of the regular season is awarded the
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. The 2008 winner was
Nick Sautner Nicholas Sautner (born 19 June 1977) is an Australian rules footballer, best known for his Victorian Football League (VFL) football career with the Sandringham Zebras. He also played for Frankston in 2001 and 2002 and Preston in 2003. He wo ...
of the
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.


Other

*The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by
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(
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). * Williamstown won the reserves premiership. Williamstown 16.17 (113) defeated Box Hill 11.16 (82) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors First Preliminary Final on 20 September.


Notable events

*The timing of the Grand Final was shifted to the Friday night immediately before the AFL Grand Final, after many years of having been played on the preceding Sunday, and also moved to a new venue at
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. This shift in timing lasted only two seasons, before the game reverted to the Sunday before the AFL Grand Final. *Starting from this season, the
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Under 18s Grand Final was played as a
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to the VFL Grand Final. The VFL Reserves Grand Final was shifted to the previous week, and was thereafter played as a curtain-raiser to one of the senior preliminary finals.


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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2008 AFL season The 2008 AFL season was the 112th 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 si ...


References


External links


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