1925 VFL season

1925 VFL Premiership season
Brownlow Medal winner Colin Watson
Teams	12
Premiers	Geelong (1st premiership)
Minor premiers	Geelong (3rd minor premiership)
Matches played	106
Highest attendance	64,288
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Lloyd Hagger (Geelong)
Brownlow Medallist	Colin Watson (St Kilda)
← 1924 1926 →

The 1925 Victorian Football League season was the 29th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club, after it defeated Collingwood by ten points in the Grand Final.

The 1925 season saw the admission of three new clubs – Footscray, Hawthorn and North Melbourne – all of which cross to the VFL from the Victorian Football Association after an off-field struggle which lasted for much of the summer.

In July 1924, the Public Service Football Club, a club whose players would consist entirely of state and federal public servants rather than being drawn from a geographical recruiting district, was established and applied to join the VFL. Melbourne Carnivals Ltd had offered to lease the Public Service club its newly developed venue, the Amateur Sports Ground, for football if it could gain entrance to the league. The venue was centrally located, between Batman Avenue and Swan Street, the site which later became Olympic Park, and was to have been expanded to a capacity of 100,000. The VFL was keen to have control over the venue, and equally keen to prevent the VFA or the local rugby league or soccer associations from controlling such a valuable asset.

Since the end of World War I, the VFL had contained nine clubs; and, while the League had taken applications several times for a tenth club, it had each time opted to remain at nine clubs. But, the availability of the Amateur Sports Ground was an important strategic opportunity, and in September 1924, the VFL formally resolved to "draw up a scheme for the inclusion of one or more clubs, and secure the Amateur Sports Ground for the League" before the 1925 season.