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2013 VFL season

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Teams
  
14

Premiers
  
Box Hill Hawks (2nd premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Geelong (2nd minor premiership)

Leading goalkicker
  
Dean Galea (Port Melbourne)

J. J. Liston Trophy
  
Mitch Hallahan (Box Hill Hawks) Jordan Schroder (Geelong) Steve Clifton (North Ballarat)

The 2013 Victorian Football League season was the 132nd season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by Box Hill Hawks who defeated Geelong by 21 points in the Grand Final.

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League membership and affiliations

Prior to the 2013 season, Essendon ended its ten-year reserves affiliation with the Bendigo Football Club. Essendon began fielding its own reserves team in the VFL, and Bendigo continued to contest the VFL as a stand-alone senior team.

Foxtel Cup

The top two non-AFL clubs from the 2012 VFL season – Port Melbourne and Werribee – competed in the 2013 Foxtel Cup. Werribee progressed the further of the two teams, losing its semi-final against WAFL club East Fremantle.

Premiership season

Source: VFL Season 2013 Results

Awards

  • The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Mitch Hallahan (Box Hill Hawks), Jordan Schroder (Geelong) and Steve Clifton (North Ballarat), who all polled 17 votes. It was Clifton's second Liston Trophy.
  • The Frosty Miller Medal was won by Dean Galea (Port Melbourne), who kicked 55 goals during the home-and-away season. Michael Lourey (Frankston) officially finished second with 54 goals; he actually kicked 55 goals, the same number as Galea, but one was annulled as a result of the headcount in Round 14. Including finals, the leading goalkicker for the season was Ben Warren (Werribee), who finished with 59 goals, one goal more than Galea.
  • The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by Kane Lambert (Northern Blues), who averaged 26 possessions a game and kicked 21 goals in season 2013.
  • The top two non-AFL clubs – Box Hill and Williamstown – qualified for the 2014 Foxtel Cup tournament.
  • The Development League premiership was won by Williamstown. In the Grand Final, played at North Port Oval on 14 September, Williamstown 11.19 (85) defeated Box Hill 12.12 (84) by one point; scores were level at 84 apiece when time expired, and Williamstown scored the winning behind after seven minutes of golden point extra time.

    • References

    2013 VFL season Wikipedia
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