1925 VFL premiership season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 2 May—10 October 1925 |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Geelong 1st premiership |
Runners-up | Collingwood 8th runners-up result |
Minor premiers | Geelong 3rd minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Colin Watson (St Kilda) 9 votes |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Lloyd Hagger (Geelong) 70 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 106 |
Total attendance | 1,871,336 (17,654 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 38,000 (round 6, Richmond v Melbourne) |
Highest (finals) | 64,288 (grand final, Geelong v Collingwood) |
The 1925 VFL season was the 29th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 2 May to 10 October, comprising a 17-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs. Victorian Football Association (VFA) clubs Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne featured for the first time in 1925.
Geelong won the premiership, defeating Collingwood by ten points in the 1925 VFL grand final; it was Geelong's first VFL premiership. Geelong also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–2 win–loss record. St Kilda's Colin Watson won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Geelong's Lloyd Hagger won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.