1923 VFL Premiership season | |
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Essendon Football Club, Premiers | |
Teams | 9 |
Premiers | Essendon (5th premiership) |
Minor premiers | Essendon (3rd minor premiership) |
Matches played | 76 |
Highest attendance | 56,240 |
Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Greg Stockdale (Essendon) |
The 1923 VFL season was the 27th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured nine clubs, ran from 5 May until 20 October, and comprised a 16-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club for the fifth time, after it defeated Fitzroy by 17 points in the 1923 VFL Grand Final.
In 1923, the VFL competition had nine teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.
Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds (i.e., 16 matches and 2 byes).
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1923 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
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1 | Essendon (P) | 16 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1188 | 875 | 135.8 | 52 | Finals |
2 | Fitzroy | 16 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1120 | 968 | 115.7 | 44 | |
3 | South Melbourne | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1061 | 989 | 107.3 | 36 | |
4 | Geelong | 16 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1128 | 1085 | 104.0 | 36 | |
5 | Collingwood | 16 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1138 | 1043 | 109.1 | 34 | |
6 | St Kilda | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 947 | 959 | 98.7 | 32 | |
7 | Carlton | 16 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 1000 | 1191 | 84.0 | 26 | |
8 | Richmond | 16 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 906 | 1139 | 79.5 | 16 | |
9 | Melbourne | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 980 | 1219 | 80.4 | 12 |
Main article: 1923 VFL Grand Final |