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West Melbourne FC, premiers
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| Premiers | West Melbourne 1st premiership |
| Minor premiers | West Melbourne 1st minor premiership |
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The 1906 Victorian Football Association season was the 30th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the West Melbourne Football Club, after defeating Footscray in the close final by eleven points. It was the first and only premiership won by West Melbourne during its nine-season stint in the VFA.
The home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended Argus system to determine the premiers for the season.
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| TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | PTS | |||||
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| 1 | West Melbourne (P) | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1162 | 595 | 58 | ||||
| 2 | Richmond | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1135 | 693 | 56 | ||||
| 3 | North Melbourne | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 853 | 624 | 52 | ||||
| 4 | Footscray | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 916 | 644 | 50 | ||||
| 5 | Williamstown | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1017 | 768 | 48 | ||||
| 6 | Brunswick | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 705 | 919 | 24 | ||||
| 7 | Port Melbourne | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 629 | 1068 | 24 | ||||
| 8 | Prahran | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 726 | 1095 | 24 | ||||
| 9 | Preston | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 796 | 953 | 20 | ||||
| 10 | Essendon | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 568 | 1245 | 4 | ||||
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points | Source[1] | |||||||||||
| Semi Finals | |||||
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| Saturday, 15 September | West Melbourne 9.18 (72) | def. | North Melbourne 4.4 (28) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground | [2] |
| Saturday, 22 September | Richmond 6.5 (41) | def. by | Footscray 6.14 (50) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 12,000) | [3] |
| 1906 VFA Final | |||||
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| Saturday, 29 September | West Melbourne | def. | Footscray | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 20,000) | [4][5] |
| 0.0 (0) 3.4 (22) 4.7 (31) 7.8 (50) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
3.2 (20) 3.5 (23) 5.8 (38) 5.9 (39) |
Umpires: Souter | ||
| Williamson 3, Armstrong 2, McCann 2 | Goals | Jacobson 2, Hedley, McCarthy, Hughes | |||
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| 1906 Interleague Matches | |||||
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| Saturday, 23 June | S.A.F.A. 7.9 (51) | def. by | V.F.A. 10.8 (68) | Adelaide Oval | [7] |
| Saturday, 11 August | V.F.A. 14.19 (103) | def. | S.A.F.A. 13.9 (87) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 5,000) | [8] |
| Wednesday, 29 August | Bendigo & Nth Dist. 3.12 (30) | def. | V.F.A. 3.10 (28) | Upper Reserve | [9] |
The VFA's second match against the S.A.F.A. was originally scheduled to be played on an otherwise vacant day in the Melbourne football calendar, with a bye week in both the League and Association, and the V.F.L. team playing in Ballarat. However, the VFL made a change by shifting two of its 4 August matches onto 11 August, much to the VFA's chagrin, severely affecting the crowd at the game.[10]
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