1900 VFL premiership season | |
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Date | 5 May—22 September 1900 |
Teams | 8 |
Premiers | Melbourne 1st premiership |
Minor premiers | Fitzroy 2nd minor premiership |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Teddy Lockwood (Geelong) Albert Thurgood (Essendon) 24 goals |
Matches played | 70 |
The 1900 VFL season was the fourth season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs and ran from 5 May to 22 September, comprising a 14-round home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring all eight clubs.
Melbourne won the premiership, defeating Fitzroy by four points in the 1900 VFL grand final; it was Melbourne's first VFL premiership. Fitzroy won its second consecutive minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with an 11–3 win–loss record. Geelong's Teddy Lockwood and Essendon's Albert Thurgood tied for the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkickers.