1921 VFA season
| 1921 VFA premiership season | |
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| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Williamstown (2nd premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Footscray (5th minor premiership) |
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The 1921 Victorian Football Association season was the 43rd season of the Australian rules football competition.
The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, after it came from fourth on the home-and-home ladder to defeat minor premiers Footscray by 18 points in the Grand Final, played very late in the year on 22 October. It was the club's second VFA premiership.
The season was disrupted when the North Melbourne Football Club abruptly disbanded at midseason, a consequence of wide-ranging off-field manoeuvres in both the VFA and the VFL, which stemmed from the closure the East Melbourne Cricket Ground.
In November 1920, the state Railways Commission announced that the East Melbourne Cricket Ground was to be closed at the end of 1921 to allow for the Flinders Street Railyard to be expanded. This meant that the Essendon (League) Football Club, which had played its home games at the venue since 1882, needed to find a new home ground. The club considered the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve and the Essendon Recreation Reserve, homes to the North Melbourne and Essendon (Association) Football Clubs respectively. Although simple sentiment might suggest that Essendon (L.) would automatically favour the venue in its namesake town, the reality of the time was that the club also had strong ties to the North Melbourne area; the neighbouring suburbs of North Melbourne, West Melbourne and Kensington had been one of the most fruitful regions of Essendon's (L.) recruiting district, and a vast majority of its members resided in those three suburbs, not in Essendon town. In late June 1921, the club announced that it would move to North Melbourne rather than Essendon. The higher gate available at the more centrally-located North Melbourne ground was a key contributing factor. Essendon-based members were angry that the club had not taken the opportunity to return to Essendon town.
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