2014 VFL season
| 2014 VFL | |
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| Teams | 16 |
| Premiers |
Footscray reserves (1st premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Port Melbourne (20th minor premiership) |
| Leading goalkicker |
Daniel Connors (Port Melbourne) Sam Grimley (Box Hill Hawks) 38 goals each |
| J. J. Liston Trophy | Alex Woodward (Box Hill Hawks) |
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The 2014 Victorian Football League season is the 133rd season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Footscray Bulldogs, the reserves team of the Australian Football League's Western Bulldogs which was competing in its first season in the VFL, after it defeated Box Hill by 22 points in the Grand Final on 21 September; it was the first senior VFL premiership won by the Footscray reserves team, and it was the tenth senior VFA/VFL premiership won by the Footscray/Western Bulldogs Football Club overall.
The Association increased from fourteen teams to sixteen teams in 2014, following the end of two VFL-AFL affiliations:
The Development League was reduced from ten teams to nine, with North Ballarat withdrawing its team; this left only the nine metropolitan VFL clubs competing in the seconds competition, with all five AFL clubs and both regional VFL clubs (North Ballarat and Bendigo) absent.
The top two non-AFL teams from the 2013 VFL season – Box Hill and Williamstown – competed in the 2014 Foxtel Cup. Williamstown won the competition, defeating WAFL team West Perth in the Grand Final.
Features of the fixture included:
Source: VFL season 2014 Results and Fixtures (*Note that only at some games are attendances recorded)
The two highest ranked non-AFL exclusive teams from the 2013 season (premiers Box Hill and third placed Williamstown) were invited to compete in the Foxtel Cup knockout competition for 2014. Box Hill was eliminated in the first round of the tournament, and Williamstown recorded comfortable victories in all three fixtures, earning a second Foxtel Cup title in club history.
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