2006 VFL season
Teams13
PremiersSandringham Zebras
10th premiership
Minor premiersNorthern Bullants
8th minor premiership
Leading goalkickerAaron Edwards, Frankston
Matches played126

The 2006 Victorian Football League (VFL) is a semi-professional Australian Rules Football competition featuring 12 teams from Victoria and one team from Tasmania.

It was the 125th season of the Australian rules football competition.

League affiliations

Prior to the 2006 season, the VFL–AFL reserves affiliation which had existed for the previous three seasons between North Melbourne and Port Melbourne was terminated. In its place, North Melbourne arranged to be affiliated with both North Ballarat and Tasmania, with half of its reserves players allocated to each team. Port Melbourne continued as a stand-alone senior team in the competition.[1]

As a result, the competition stayed constant at thirteen teams: ten VFL–AFL affiliations, one AFL reserves team (Geelong) and two stand-alone VFL teams (Port Melbourne and Frankston).

Prior to the season, Springvale came to an arrangement with the City of Casey to relocate to the new Casey Fields multi-sports complex in Cranbourne East. The club changed its name to the Casey Scorpions.[2]

Ladder

2006 VFL season
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Northern Bullants 18 17 1 0 1983 1113 178.2 68 Finals
2 Sandringham (P) 18 13 5 0 1926 1505 128.0 52
3 Geelong reserves 18 13 5 0 1784 1633 109.2 52
4 Williamstown 18 11 7 0 1690 1490 113.4 44
5 Frankston 18 10 8 0 1857 1575 117.9 40
6 Werribee 18 10 8 0 1900 1759 108.0 40
7 North Ballarat 18 9 9 0 1816 1757 103.4 36
8 Coburg 18 9 9 0 1623 1614 100.6 36
9 Tasmania 18 7 11 0 1754 1844 95.1 28
10 Box Hill 18 6 12 0 1609 2108 76.3 24
11 Casey Scorpions 18 5 13 0 1529 1862 82.1 20
12 Bendigo 18 4 14 0 1516 1991 76.1 16
13 Port Melbourne 18 3 15 0 1490 2226 66.9 12
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals Series

Qualifying and elimination finalsSemi-finalsPreliminary finalsGrand Final
2 September, AMF Oval
1Northern Bullants12.13 (85)
4Williamstown19.16 (130)9 September, TEAC Oval
Northern Bullants15.10 (100)
2 September, Frankston OvalFrankston11.15 (81)17 September, TEAC Oval
5Frankston20.13 (133)Williamstown12.16 (88)
8Coburg13.4 (82)Geelong17.13 (115)24 September, Optus Oval
Geelong11.7 (73)
3 September, TEAC Oval16 September, TEAC OvalSandringham13.13 (91)
6Werribee16.12 (108)Sandringham23.14 (152)
7North Ballarat28.16 (184)10 September, TEAC OvalNorthern Bullants10.12 (72)
Geelong19.14 (128)
2 September, TEAC OvalNorth Ballarat19.8 (122)
2Sandringham20.16 (136)
3Geelong17.13 (115)

Grand Final

2006 VFL Grand Final
Sunday 24 September

(2:10 pm)

Sandringham def. Geelong Optus Oval (crowd: 6,000) [3]
2.7 (19)
6.4 (40)
11.9 (75)
 13.13 (91)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
4.3 (27)
4.3 (27)
6.5 (41)
 11.7 (73)
Norm Goss Memorial Medal: Phillip Read (Sandringham)
Sautner 3, Biddlecombe 2, Motlop 2, Smith 2, Dunn, Gallagher, Liddell, Wheatley Goals Kingsley 4, Byrne 2, Ablett, Hunt, McCarthy, Slade

Season Awards

Awards

VFL Team of the Year

2006 Victorian Team of the Year
B: David Biagi (Casey) Shaun Pollard (Frankston) Andy Biddlecombe (Sandringham)
HB: Daniel Harford (Northern Bullants) Justin Crow (Northern Bullants) Jordan Doering (Bendigo)
C: David Gallagher (Sandringham) James Byrne (Geelong) (Capt.) Kyle Matthews (Casey)
HF: Tim Hazell (Port Melbourne) Digby Morrell (Northern Bullants) Brett Geappen (Tasmania)
F: James Podsiadly (Werribee) Aaron Edwards (Frankston) Salim Hassan (Werribee)
Foll: Warren Carlyle (Port Melbourne) Brett Johnson (Williamstown) James Allen (Werribee)
Int: Jacob King (Coburg) Neil Winterton (Frankston) Steven Greene (Williamstown)
Matthew Sharkey (North Ballarat)
Coach:

Notable events

  • Commencing this season, a two year rule trial was conducted throughout the VFL premiership season on behalf of the AFL, under which a backwards kick to a team-mate which was caught in the defensive half of the ground would be called play-on instead of a mark; a line was painted across the centre of the field to accommodate.[8]

See also

References

  1. "History of the VFL 1877 - 2013". Fox Sports Pulse. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
  2. Ben Carbonaro (29 April 2006). "Good start out at Casey Fields". Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  3. "Sandy's hat trick". Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. 25 September 2006. p. 53.
  4. "Frosty Miller Medallists". Fox Sports Pulse. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  5. "2006 Medallists across Australia". Footystats Diary. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  6. "Fothergill-Round Medallists". Sportingpulse. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  7. "2006 TRUEnergy VFL reserves". Fox Sports Pulse. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  8. Caroline Wilson (8 February 2006). "Coaches shut out of rules decisions". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
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