1905 VFA season

1905 premiership season
1905 premiership season
	Richmond FC, premier team
Teams	10
Premiers	Richmond; 2nd premiership
Minor premiers	North Melbourne; 1st minor premiership
	← 1904 1906 →

The 1905 Victorian Football Association season was the 29th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club, after defeating minor premiers North Melbourne by 25 points in the challenge final on 7 October. It was Richmond's second VFA premiership.

Association membership

The Association membership was unchanged in 1905, but the Essendon Town Football Club changed its name to the Essendon Football Club at its annual general meeting in March, feeling entitled to do so as the only senior club playing its games in the town of Essendon at the time.^[1] As a consequence of this, there were two distinct senior Essendon Football Clubs with the same name playing in Melbourne from 1905 until 1921: one in the VFL, based in East Melbourne; and one in the VFA, based in Essendon.

At the time, the two Essendon clubs were typically known as Essendon (Association) and Essendon (League), Essendon (V.F.A.) and Essendon (V.F.L.), or Essendon (A.) and Essendon (L.) to distinguish them from each other where confusion was possible.

Premiership

The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1905 VFA ladder
Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	Pts
1	North Melbourne	18	15	3	895	515	60
2	Richmond (P)	18	14	4	1130	570	56
3	Williamstown	18	14	4	925	541	56
4	Port Melbourne	18	12	6	875	559	48
5	West Melbourne	18	12	6	792	605	48
6	Essendon	18	7	11	735	833	28
7	Brunswick	18	6	12	741	984	24
8	Footscray	18	6	12	574	833	24
9	Prahran	18	3	15	476	975	12
10	Preston	18	1	17	415	1149	4

Source: ^[2]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Semi-finals


	Semi Finals
Saturday, 16 September	North Melbourne 5.5 (35)	def.	Williamstown 3.8 (26)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 7,000)	^[3]
Saturday, 23 September	Richmond 11.8 (74)	def.	Port Melbourne 7.6 (48)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground	^[4]

Final


	Final
Saturday, 30 September	North Melbourne 3.10 (28)	def. by	Richmond 7.6 (48)	East Melbourne Cricket Ground	^[5]

Grand Final


	1905 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 7 October	North Melbourne	def. by	Richmond	East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 15,000 – 20,000)	^[6]^[7]
	0.2 (2) 3.3 (21) 3.3 (21) 5.6 (36)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	2.2 (14) 3.3 (21) 8.6 (54) 9.7 (61)	Umpires: Freame


Considine 2, Groves, C. Londerigan, M. Londerigan		Goals	Knell 3, Ricketts 2, Sykes 2, McDonald, Megson

References

^ "Club meetings". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 April 1905. p. 14.
^ Observer (11 September 1905). "Football". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 6.
^ Old Boy (18 September 1905). "Association Semi-Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 9.
^ Observer (25 September 1905). "Football – the Semi-Finals". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
^ Observer (2 October 1903). "Association Semi-Final". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
^ Observer (9 October 1905). "Football – Association premiership". The Argus. Melbourne. p. 7.
^ "Final Match – North Melbourne v. Richmond". North Melbourne Courier and West Melbourne Advertiser. Melbourne, Vic. p. 3.

v t e VFA/VFL seasons
Pre-VFA	1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876
VFA seasons	1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
VFA seasons (post-VFL formation)	1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
VFL seasons	1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024

v t e Australian rules football in Victoria
Representative side	Victoria
Governing bodies	AFL Victoria (metropolitan) AFL Victoria Country (regional)
Professional clubs	Carlton Collingwood Essendon Geelong Hawthorn Melbourne North Melbourne Richmond St Kilda Western Bulldogs
Statewide leagues	Victorian Football League Talent League (under-19) List of Australian rules football competitions in Victoria
Metropolitan leagues	Eastern Essendon District Northern Riddell District Southern VAFA Western
Regional leagues (major)	Ballarat Bellarine Bendigo Central Murray Geelong Gippsland Goulburn Valley Hampden Mornington Peninsula Nepean Murray North Central Outer East Ovens & Murray Sunraysia Wimmera
Regional leagues (district)	Central Highlands Colac East Gippsland Ellinbank Geelong & District Golden Rivers Heathcote Horsham Kyabram Loddon Valley Maryborough Castlemaine Mid Gippsland Millewa Mininera North Gippsland Omeo Ovens & King Picola South West Tallangatta Upper Murray Warrnambool West Gippsland
Women's leagues	AFL Victoria Youth Girls Competition Barwon North East Border Talent League Girls VFL Women's
Other leagues	Victorian Blind Football League Victorian FIDA Football League Yarra Junior Football League
Defunct leagues	Alberton (1945–2019) Ararat (1931-1999) Benalla (1946–2009) Benalla Tungamah/Central Goulburn (1938-2005) Central Goulburn Valley (1946-1952) Chiltern (1912-1956) Euroa District (1903-1949) Federal DFA (1897-1902) Federal FL (1909–1981) Goulburn Valley FA (1888-1931) Heytesbury Mount Noorat (1992-2002) Lexton Plains (1999–2010) Mallee (1997–2015) Mount Noorat (1932–1991) Northern & Echuca (1990–1996) Northern Mallee (1979–1996) Polwarth (1922-1970) Riviera (1986–2003) South East (2015–2018) South Eastern Women's (2017–2023) Southern Mallee (1932–1996) Tyrrell (1945–1978) VFL Development (1928-2017) VJFA (1883–1932) Victorian Womens' (1981–2016) Walhalla (1888-1913) West Wimmera (1923-1981) Western Plains (1920-1998) Yackandandah (1928-1954) Yarra Ranges (1966–2018) Yarra Valley (1909-1965) List of former Australian rules football competitions in Victoria
Principal venues	Melbourne Cricket Ground Docklands Stadium Princes Park Kardinia Park
Other articles	History (1859–1900) List of Australian rules football clubs in Victoria

1905 VFA season

Association membership

Premiership

Ladder

Finals

Semi-finals

Final

Grand Final

See also

References

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