North continued on in the depleted VFA, emerging as a powerhouse, finishing 2nd in 1897, 1898 and 1899.

The VFA continued to list its teams as being of either Senior or Junior status.

He retired from VFL football at the end of 1978 but continued to play in the lower-level VFA in 1980 and 1981 with Sandringham.

The 1924 premiership would be Footscray's last in the VFA.

In 1862 it competed in what may be the earliest challenge trophy competition, was a foundation member of the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) ( 1877 ), one of two associations and governing bodies formed in the same year and in 1897 it became a foundation member of the Victorian Football League ( VFL ) competition which later became the national Australian Football League ( AFL ).

In the 1986 VFA grand final against Williamstown he was sensationally ordered off, only to be found not guilty at the tribunal.

The article states that any existing revenue-expenditure asymmetry between the two levels of a government should simply be called, what it is, that is, a Vertical Fiscal Asymmetry ( VFA ).

The kind of policy solution to be applied will depend on the nature of asymmetry ( VFA ).

Any existing revenue-expenditure asymmetry between the two levels of a government should simply be called, what it is, that is, a Vertical Fiscal Asymmetry ( VFA ).

In 1964, VFA was officially admitted to be affiliated member of FIFA and AFC.

The VFA was formed in 1877, immediately after the foundation of a similar body in South Australia and is the second-oldest Australian rules football league, replacing the loose affiliation of clubs that had been the hallmark of the early years of a game which was first played as early as 1850s.

From 1885 to 1888, University played in the VFA which at the time was the sport's major governing body.

The VFA, still in existence a century after the original schism, merged with the former VFL reserves competition in 1998.

The Essendon VFL club returned to Essendon, and the Essendon VFA club disbanded, with most of its players moving over to ( then VFA club ) North Melbourne.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

through the VFA and V / AFLFootball took a giant step forward in 1877, with the formation of the first colonial football league, the VFA.

North caused a sensation in 1907 after announcing an amalgamation with fellow VFA football club West Melbourne, which at the time had lost its home ground.

In 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the Victorian Football League ( VFL ).

The city was besotted with football and many clubs clamoured for admission to the VFA.

Richmond were now openly at odds with the VFA and matters failed to improve in the next few years.

Dyer walked out on the club and threatened to play in the VFA after his father, a committeeman who was involved with the anti-Bentley faction, lost his position at the board elections.

This was usually the club with the most wins, but there were some seasons where the VFA judged the leading team had had too many wins against junior clubs, and awarded the Premiership to the club with the second-highest number of wins.

Although its size was constant, its membership was not, with many new clubs lasting only a few years before leaving, and four clubs switching to the VFL: Richmond in 1908, and North Melbourne, Footscray and ( who joined the VFA in 1914 ) in 1925.

In 1963, he joined VFA club Prahran, and spent a year with the thirds.

The VFA refused to endorse his clearance due to a disagreement with the VFL.

The club won five premierships with the VFA up to 1890 and four more in the VFL in the first half of the 20th Century.

In the case of Todd, it led to him moving to the VFA because he was dissatisfied with the pay he could legally get with Collingwood, whilst Coleman and Gleeson could not afford surgery to continue their careers, that they would have been able to have on higher wages.

Coulthard commenced with the Carlton club in the ( then ) Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) in 1876.

In 1897, when eight teams broke away from the VFA to form the VFL, the concept of finals football was high on the agenda, with teams buoyed by the success and attendances of the 1896 Grand Final.

Geelong moved to Corio Oval for the 1878 season – the year the club won its first VFA premiership in only the second VFA season.

Footscray adapted relatively quickly to the standard of VFL football despite losing some of their VFA stars, and by 1928 were already a contender for the finals, missing only on percentage in 1931.

( Under VFA rules at the time, only goals were counted to the total team score ).

) In 1954 3AK began broadcasting VFA games, albeit only for a season or two.

The second-longest drought was that of the St Kilda Football Club, who did not win its first, and to date only, senior premiership until 1966, after 68 seasons in the VFL, an additional 13 seasons in the VFA prior to the VFL's inception, and 93 years after the club's foundation in 1873.

Teams which have taken part have included a combined Australian Amateurs team, Australian Capital Territory ( ACT ), New South Wales ( NSW ), NSW-ACT, New Zealand ( NZ ; 1908 carnival only ), Northern Territory, Queensland ( Qld ), Qld-NT, South Australia ( SA ), Tasmania ( Tas ), Victoria ( Vic ), the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and Western Australia ( WA ).

He coached the VFA representative side on five occasions without losing a game.

Cleary has been a part of the ABC's telecast of VFA / VFL football as a match-day commentator since 1987, juggling coaching and commentary duties for the first five seasons.

After struggling to find a permanent home venue during its time in the VFA, Carlton established Princes Park as its home venue when it joined the VFL in 1897.

Collingwood played its first game in the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) against on 7 May 1892.

The Field-Marshall and its tracked stable-mate ( Marshall-engined Fowler VF and VFA ), were distinctive because of the use of a single-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine ( of about 6-litre capacity ) coupled to a very large flywheel, whereas tractors such as the Fordson N used a multi-cylinder engine.

Fitzroy's season-by-season records throughout its thirteen seasons at VFA level are given below.

The Victorian Football League ( VFL ) which evolved from the former Victorian Football Association ( VFA ), taking its new name as from the 1996 season, is the premier Australian rules football league in Victoria ( not counting the Australian Football League.

* In 1903 the VFA introduced its first finals.

South Melbourne was formed in 1867, a foundation member of the first Australian rules competition the Victorian Football Association ( VFA ) and also its later replacement the Victorian Football League ( VFL ).