1899 VFL season

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Win/Loss table

Ladder

Ladder progression

• No ladder for finals in 1899.

  Finals

Sectional Round 1

Sectional Round 2

Sectional Round 3

Section A Ladder

Section B Ladder

Grand final

Awards

• The 1899 VFL Premiership team was Fitzroy.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Eddy James of Geelong with 31 goals.
• The Argus newspaper's "Player of the Year" was Fitzroy's Pat Hickey.

  Notable events

• The VFL reduced the size of its teams from 20 to 18 on-the-field players, with no "reserves". In doing this, the number of followers was reduced from five to three.
• The third round, Queen's Birthday holiday match, between Collingwood and St Kilda at Victoria Park was held in the morning of Wednesday 24 May 1899.
• Norman "Hackenschmidt" Clark, a footballer with the North Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian Football Association, won the 1899, 130-yard Stawell Gift in eleven and four-fifths seconds, off a handicap of 14 and a half yards. Clark would later play 125 senior games for Carlton, captain-coach VFA team Brighton, and coach Carlton, Richmond, North Melbourne and St Kilda.
• At half-time of the Round 13 game between Fitzroy and Collingwood, Fitzroy captain Alec Sloan offers Collingwood captain Dick Condon the use of a fresh football, due to the old ball being greasy. Condon declines, and Colingwood win the game 5.7 to 3.7.
• The first seven kicks of the Round 14 game between Carlton and Fitzroy are free kicks awarded by the umpire.
• In the third sectional round, Geelong set records for the highest score in a game, scoring 23.24, and the highest winning margin of 161 points, against St Kilda. These records would both stand for twelve years and twenty years respectively.
• St Kilda's score of 0.1 in the same match set the record for the lowest score in a VFL/AFL game, which has neither been matched nor broken since. Notably, the solitary behind was actually the first score of the match.
• Geelong's Jim McShane kicked 11 goals in the same match against St Kilda, a VFL record that was not equalled until Collingwood's Dick Lee's 11 goals in 1914 and not broken until 1922; this is more impressive considering that McShane was usually a ruckman.
• Warwick Armstrong, later captain of the Australian Test Cricket team, played in the ruck for the South Melbourne team that lost the 1899 "Grand Final".