1919 VFL season

1919 VFL Premiership season
Teams	9
Premiers	Collingwood (5th premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (6th minor premiership)
Matches played	76
Highest attendance	51,798
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Dick Lee (Collingwood)
← 1918 1920 →

The 1919 Victorian Football League season was the 23rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1919, the VFL competition consisted of nine 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 (i.e., 16 matches and 2 byes).

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1919 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

All of the 1919 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.

Collingwood defeated Richmond 11.12 (78) to 7.11 (53), in front of a crowd of 45,413 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

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