1908 VFL premiership season | |
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Date | 2 May—26 September 1908 |
Teams | 10 |
Premiers | Carlton 3rd premiership |
Minor premiers | Carlton 3rd minor premiership |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Dick Lee (Collingwood) 54 goals |
Matches played | 93 |
The 1908 VFL season was the twelfth season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured ten clubs and ran from 2 May to 26 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a three-week finals series featuring the top four clubs. Victorian Football Association (VFA) club Richmond and Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) club University featured for the first time in 1908.
Carlton won the premiership, defeating Essendon by nine points in the 1908 VFL grand final; it was Carlton's third (consecutive and overall) VFL premiership, marking the first time a club won three consecutive VFL premierships. Carlton also won its third consecutive minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 17–1 win–loss record. Collingwood's Dick Lee won his second consecutive leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.