1903 VFL season

1903 VFL Premiership season
Teams	8
Premiers	Collingwood (2nd premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (2nd minor premiership)
Matches played	71
Highest attendance	32,263
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Teddy Lockwood (Collingwood)
← 1902 1904 →

The 1903 Victorian Football League season was the seventh season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1903, 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 1903 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

The match between Geelong and Carlton, originally to have been played at Corio Oval, was postponed due to a railway strike. It was played between Rounds 13 and 14, and was opportunistically moved to the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Collingwood defeated Fitzroy 4.7 (31) to 3.11 (29). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

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