Highest attendance 39,262 Start date 1918 Matches played 59 | Leading Goalkicker Medallist Ern Cowley (Carlton) Teams 8 | |
Premiers South Melbourne
(2nd premiership) Minor premiers South Melbourne
(3rd minor premiership) Similar 1923 VFL season, 1912 VFL season, 1904 VFL season, 1911 VFL season, 1924 VFL season | ||
The 1918 Victorian Football League season was the 22nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
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Premiership season
In 1918, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.
Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds.
Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1918 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
Finals
All of the 1918 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the Semi Finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.
Grand final
South Melbourne defeated Collingwood 9.8 (62) to 7.15 (57), in front of a crowd of 39,168 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).