The 1893 Victorian Football Association season was the 17th season of the Australian rules football competition.
1893 premiership season | |
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Essendon FC team
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Teams | 13 |
Premiers | Essendon 3rd premiership |
← 1892
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The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club, which was unbeaten during the season; Essendon finished with a record of 18 wins and 2 draws from 20 matches. It was also Essendon's third consecutive premiership out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.
The playing membership of the Association was unchanged from 1892. On the administrative side, the representation of the three Ballarat-based clubs – Ballarat, Ballarat Imperial and South Ballarat – was diminished, with each club now represented by only one delegate on the Board of Management instead of the two delegates to which each other club was entitled.[1] Efforts to reduce Ballarat representation had been occurring since as early as 1891, as Ballarat's control of almost 20% of Association delegates was seen to give excessive voting power to a city which played fewer games than and did not compete in the premiership with the metropolitan teams.[2] The Ballarat-based clubs remained affiliated to the Association with lesser representation, but also started up their own body, the Ballarat Football Association, this same year.
Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 21-match season – e.g., Essendon played 20 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 21/20. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | GF | GA | Pts | Adj pts |
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1 | Essendon (P) | 20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 146 | 64 | 76 | 79.80 |
2 | Melbourne | 21 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 118 | 62 | 68 | 68.00 |
3 | Geelong | 20 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 106 | 85 | 60 | 63.00 |
4 | South Melbourne | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 133 | 90 | 60 | 60.00 |
5 | Fitzroy | 21 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 114 | 84 | 48 | 48.00 |
6 | Port Melbourne | 20 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 75 | 81 | 38 | 39.90 |
6 | St Kilda | 20 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 79 | 98 | 38 | 39.90 |
8 | Footscray | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 73 | 75 | 36 | 37.80 |
9 | Collingwood | 19 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 64 | 68 | 32 | 35.37 |
10 | Williamstown | 20 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 77 | 96 | 22 | 23.10 |
11 | Carlton | 20 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 71 | 136 | 18 | 18.90 |
12 | Richmond | 20 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 83 | 131 | 16 | 16.80 |
13 | North Melbourne | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 47 | 116 | 12 | 12.60 |