1925 VFA season

1925 VFA premiership season
Teams	8
Premiers	Brunswick (2nd premiership)
Minor premiers	Brunswick (1st minor premiership)
Matches played	59
Attendance	465,500 (7,890 per match)
← 1924 1926 →

The 1925 Victorian Football Association season was the 47th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Brunswick Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne by 16 points in the Final on 31 August. It was the club's second VFA premiership.

During the 1924/25 offseason, the Victorian Football League looked towards the expansion of its numbers, as well as securing the new and strategically valuable Motordrome as a regular venue. While several Association clubs were keen to be admitted to the League, the 1923 agreement between the two bodies regarding player transfers effectively prevented any clubs from changing competition.

The Association received applications from Camberwell, Coburg, Yarraville, and Public Service for admission in 1925. In December 1924, it decided to admit Coburg and to provisionally admit Public Service if it could secure a suitable playing ground, which it ultimately could not. However, by admitting new clubs, the League contended that the Association was no longer the same body which signed the player transfers agreement in 1923; the League now considered the agreement broken, and admitted Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne to its senior ranks. The Association considered a legal challenge, but decided against it. The League also obtained the permission of the Minister for Lands to admit North Melbourne and allow it to use the North Melbourne Recreation Reserve, reversing a decision the Minister had made in 1921 that the venue should be reserved for Association use.

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