1922 VFA season
| 1922 VFA premiership season | |
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| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Port Melbourne (3rd premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Footscray (6th minor premiership) |
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The 1922 Victorian Football Association season was the 44th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Footscray by two points on 23 September, in a controversial Grand Final which several of its players were offered money to throw. It was the club's third VFA premiership.
Following the closure of the East Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1921, the Essendon (Association) Football Club disbanded and left the Association, due to the Essendon (League) Football Club moving into its home ground. North Melbourne had disbanded mid-way through the 1921 season as it tried to capitalise on Essendon's (L.) move, but reformed at the end of the year and resumed its place in the Association, albeit missing many of its best players which had left the club when it disbanded.
To replace Essendon (A.), a new senior club based in Geelong was admitted to the Association. The new club was administered by the Geelong & District Junior Football Association, and was called the Geelong Football Club; it was typically called Geelong (Association) or Geelong (A.) when required to distinguish it from the Geelong Football Club affiliated with the Victorian Football League. The Geelong (A.) team played its matches at Kardinia Park (at the time, Geelong (L.) played at Corio Oval).
These changes were seen as a rare strategic victory for the Association over the League. The Association had managed to gain a slightly stronger foothold over inner city Melbourne by forcing Essendon (L.) into the outer suburbs; and it had then established a club in Geelong, which had been previously been served by only a League team, in the hope of attracting some Geelong-grown talent towards the Association. The victory would be short-lived, as North Melbourne was admitted to the League after three years and Geelong (A.) was out of the Association after six years.
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