1909 VFL season

1909 VFL Premiership season
Premiership captain Charlie Ricketts
Teams	10
Premiers	South Melbourne (1st premiership)
Minor premiers	South Melbourne (1st minor premiership)
Matches played	94
Highest attendance	37,759
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Dick Lee (Collingwood)
← 1908 1910 →

The 1909 Victorian Football League season was the 13th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1909, the VFL competition consisted of ten 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 18 rounds.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1909 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

All of the 1909 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.

This was South Melbourne's first premiership after finishing runner up twice previously.