1886 Victorian football season

1886 Victorian football season
Date1 May – 2 October 1886[1]

The 1886 Victorian football season was the 17th senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria.[2]

Clubs

Founded

Club League Ref
Camberwell VJFA [3]
Hawthorn Juniors VJFA [4]
Koroit [5]
Prahran VFA [6]
South Williamstown VFA [7]
Williamstown CYMS [8]

Name changes

Former New League Ref
Cremone Richmond Juniors VJFA [9]

VFA

Main article: 1886 VFA season

Geelong won the Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership for the seventh time.[10]

VJFA

1886 VJFA season
PremiersNorth Park
1st premiership

The 1886 VJFA season was the fourth season of the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA).[a] North Park won the premiership for the first time, beginning a sequence of five premierships won by the club between 1886 and 1890.[12]

Elgin Union and Kilmore were admitted into the VJFA on 27 May 1886.[13]

Club records

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA
1 North Park (P) 18 16 0 2 57 9
2 Richmond Juniors
3 Elgin Union
4 South Melbourne Juniors
5 Britannia
6 Normanby
Brighton
Camberwell
Hawthorn Juniors
Kilmore
Lilydale
South St Kilda

Source: [14][15][16][17]
(P) Premiers

Ballarat District

South Ballarat was the premier club in the Ballarat District competition.[18]

Club records

Pos Team Pld W L D GF GA
1 South Ballarat (P) 18 13 4 1 88 43
2 Ballarat Imperial 12 3 7 2 42 59
Ballarat 17 2 12 3 33 71

Source: [19][20]
(P) Premiers

Notes

  1. ^ At the time, the term "junior" was used to describe open age football of a lower standard than senior football, rather than under age football.[11]

References

  1. ^ "1886 VFA Premiership Season". Australian Football. Archived from the original on 7 June 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  2. ^ Goal Post (6 October 1886). "The past football season". Sportsman. p. 6. Retrieved 6 June 2025.
  3. ^ "The battle to play sport in Camberwell on Sunday". sarahcraze.com. 20 October 2022. Archived from the original on 16 January 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  4. ^ "Hawthorn Juniors Football Club statistics 1886". Early History of the Hawthorn Football Club 1873–1935. 1998. Retrieved 16 August 2004.
  5. ^ "ABOUT THE CLUB". Koroit Football Netball Club. Archived from the original on 15 March 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  6. ^ "Prahran Football Club". Prahran Football Club. Archived from the original on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  7. ^ "South Williamstown Senior Football Club". Williamstown Advertiser. 3 April 1886. p. 2. Retrieved 12 June 2024.
  8. ^ "History of Williamstown CYMS" (PDF). Williamstown CYMS Football Club. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  9. ^ "1886 Chronology". Tigerland Archive. Archived from the original on 8 February 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  10. ^ Collings, Tom (15 July 2019). "Geelong's Premiership History". Geelong Football Club. Archived from the original on 3 June 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  11. ^ Gigacz, Andrew (5 June 2023). "Still snarling: 140 years on". Western Bulldogs. Archived from the original on 4 June 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
  12. ^ "JUNIOR PREMIERSHIP". The Australasian. 4 October 1890. p. 18. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  13. ^ "JUNIOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION". Sportsman. 2 June 1886. p. 6. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  14. ^ "Lilydale v. Camberwell". The Lilydale Express. 14 July 1886. p. 2. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  15. ^ "FOOTBALL". The Argus. 7 August 1886. p. 11. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  16. ^ Umpire (29 September 1886). "FOOTBALL CHAT". Sportsman. p. 6. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  17. ^ "Victorian Junior Football Association (Vic)". Footypedia. Archived from the original on 17 December 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  18. ^ "THE GRAND FINAL". The Ballarat Star. 26 September 1921. p. 6. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
  19. ^ Follower (9 October 1886). "The past season". Leader. p. 20. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  20. ^ Follower (9 October 1886). "The past season". Leader. p. 21. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
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