The 1911 VFL season was the 15th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.
1911 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 10 |
Premiers | Essendon 3rd premiership |
Minor premiers | Essendon 2nd minor premiership |
Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Harry Brereton (Melbourne) |
Matches played | 93 |
Highest | 43,905 |
The season featured ten clubs, ran from 29 April until 23 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The season was the beginning of the league's professional era, with clubs permitted for the first time to pay players beyond the reimbursement of expenses.
The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club for the third time, after it defeated Collingwood by six points in the 1911 VFL Grand Final.
In 1911, the VFL competition consisted of ten 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.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1911 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Essendon (P) | 18 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1207 | 677 | 178.3 | 62 |
2 | South Melbourne | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1143 | 814 | 140.4 | 54 |
3 | Carlton | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1150 | 810 | 142.0 | 52 |
4 | Collingwood | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1064 | 855 | 124.4 | 48 |
5 | Fitzroy | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 951 | 837 | 113.6 | 40 |
6 | Geelong | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 1025 | 1026 | 99.9 | 34 |
7 | Melbourne | 18 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 989 | 1003 | 98.6 | 30 |
8 | Richmond | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 931 | 1021 | 91.2 | 28 |
9 | St Kilda | 18 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 699 | 1454 | 48.1 | 8 |
10 | University | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 721 | 1383 | 52.1 | 4 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 54.9
Source: AFL Tables
All of the 1911 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Essendon | 2.4 | 3.9 | 3.11 | 5.11 (41) |
Collingwood | 1.1 | 1.5 | 3.8 | 4.11 (35) |