1981 VFA season

1981 VFA Premiership Season
Teams20
Division 1
Teams10
PremiersPort Melbourne
(14th premiership)
Minor premiersPort Melbourne
(13th minor premiership)
Division 2
Teams10
PremiersCamberwell
(2nd D2 premiership)
Minor premiersCamberwell
(2nd D2 minor premiership)
1980
1982

The 1981 Victorian Football Association season was the 100th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 21st season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Preston in the Grand Final on 20 September by 113 points; it was Port Melbourne's 14th Division 1 premiership, the second of three premierships won in a row between 1980 and 1982, and the fifth of six premierships won in nine seasons from 1974 until 1982. The Division 2 premiership was won by Camberwell; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership, and it was the last premiership ever won by the club.