The 1891 Victorian Football Association season was the 15th season of the Australian rules football competition.
1891 premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Essendon 1st premiership |
The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club. It was the first premiership in the club's history, and it was its first premiership out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.
Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 22-match season; e.g., Essendon played 20 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 22/20. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | GF | GA | Pts | Adj pts |
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1 | Essendon (P) | 20 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 125 | 66 | 72 | 79.20 |
2 | Carlton | 21 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 113 | 55 | 62 | 64.95 |
3 | Fitzroy | 19 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 110 | 70 | 52 | 60.21 |
4 | South Melbourne | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 120 | 74 | 58 | 58.00 |
5 | Geelong | 19 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 90 | 74 | 48 | 55.58 |
6 | Melbourne | 19 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 88 | 84 | 42 | 48.63 |
7 | St Kilda | 20 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 92 | 97 | 34 | 37.40 |
8 | North Melbourne | 20 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 55 | 86 | 28 | 30.80 |
9 | Williamstown | 18 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 51 | 78 | 22 | 26.89 |
10 | Footscray | 18 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 58 | 95 | 18 | 22.00 |
11 | Port Melbourne | 19 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 61 | 103 | 18 | 20.84 |
12 | Richmond | 19 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 62 | 143 | 14 | 16.21 |