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1894 VFA season

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Field	Value
competition	VFA Premiership season
year	1894
image	Essendon fc 1894.jpg
imagesize	250px
caption	Essendon FC team
teams	13
premiers
count	4
prevseason	1893
nextseason	1895

| pre-season name = | pre-season cup = The 1894 Victorian Football Association season was the 18th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club by a margin of fourteen points, finishing with a record of 16 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss from 18 matches. It was Essendon's fourth consecutive premiership.

Ladder

For the first time, fixtures were standardised under the control of a central committee, with all teams playing 18 premiership matches (i.e. playing half of the other 12 clubs twice and the other half once): thus, the 1888-1893 proportional points system was no longer required.

Prior to 1894, teams had played differing numbers of matches, meaning their final records would be adjusted to allow them to be ranked on an equivalent basis.

Notable events

Essendon's Albert Thurgood was the dominant goalkicker for the season, kicking 63 goals. His nearest rival, A. Burns of South Melbourne, kicked only 31 goals.
St Kilda's win over Port Melbourne in Round 6 was its last away win in either the VFA or the VFL until beating South Melbourne in Round 3 of 1903; in that time, St Kilda played a total of 77 away matches for three draws and 74 losses, including 62 consecutive away losses from 1896 to 1903.
Essendon's loss to Geelong in Round 19 ended an unbeaten streak of 47 matches.

References

Observer. (17 September 1894). "The Football Season". The Argus.

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