2001 VFL season
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| 2001 VFL season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 16 |
| Premiers | Box Hill 1st premiership |
| Minor premiers | Werribee Tigers 3rd minor premiership |
The 2001 Victorian Football League season was the 120th season of the Australian rules football competition.
The premiership was won by the Box Hill Football Club, after defeating Werribee by 37 points in the Grand Final on 23 September. It was the first top division premiership won by Box Hill in its 51 seasons in the VFA/VFL.
League membership and affiliations
In a continuation of the VFL's amalgamation with the AFL reserves, which had begun in 2000, there were several changes to the VFL-AFL reserves affiliations in 2001.[1]
- Richmond affiliated with Coburg-Fitzroy. Under the affiliation, the team's nickname was changed from Lions to Tigers to match Richmond's nickname, and the partnership with Fitzroy came to an end, resulting in the team becoming known as the Coburg Tigers. The financial stability brought by the affiliation saved Coburg from extinction, as the club had been in administration since July 2000 and would have been wound up if it had not entered an AFL affiliation.[2][3]
- Western Bulldogs, which had been jointly affiliated with Williamstown and Werribee, became fully affiliated with Werribee.
- Collingwood affiliated with Williamstown
- St Kilda affiliated with Springvale
In addition to these changes, a new team from Tasmania was admitted to the VFL; the admission was initially on a one-year trial basis, and a permanent licence was ultimately granted. Created and administered by Football Tasmania (later AFL Tasmania), the Tasmanian VFL club was designed to provide an opportunity for state level football in Tasmania to fill the void left by the collapse of the Tasmanian Statewide Football League at the end of the 2000 season.[3] The club came to be known as the Tasmanian Devils, and played its home games throughout Tasmania, with five games at York Park in Launceston, four games at North Hobart Oval in Hobart, and one game at Devonport Oval in Devonport in its first season.[4]
Consequently, there were sixteen teams in the VFL in 2001: eight clubs with VFL-AFL affiliations, three AFL reserves teams, and five stand-alone VFL clubs.
Premiership season
Ladder
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Werribee | 20 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 2357 | 1360 | 173.3 | 72 | Finals |
| 2 | Box Hill (P) | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2240 | 1521 | 147.3 | 60 | |
| 3 | Springvale | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1921 | 1735 | 110.7 | 52 | |
| 4 | Murray Kangaroos | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1997 | 1854 | 107.7 | 52 | |
| 5 | Carlton reserves | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1844 | 1577 | 116.9 | 48 | |
| 6 | Frankston | 20 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 1794 | 1730 | 103.7 | 48 | |
| 7 | Coburg | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1857 | 1791 | 103.7 | 44 | |
| 8 | Essendon reserves | 20 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1797 | 1893 | 94.9 | 44 | |
| 9 | Williamstown | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1908 | 1882 | 101.4 | 40 | |
| 10 | Port Melbourne | 20 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1866 | 1883 | 99.1 | 40 | |
| 11 | Sandringham | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 1770 | 1679 | 105.4 | 36 | |
| 12 | North Ballarat | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 1615 | 1920 | 84.1 | 32 | |
| 13 | Geelong reserves | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 1617 | 1718 | 94.1 | 28 | |
| 14 | Northern Bullants | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 1805 | 1816 | 99.4 | 24 | |
| 15 | Tasmania | 20 | 5 | 15 | 0 | 1458 | 2180 | 66.9 | 20 | |
| 16 | Bendigo | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1320 | 2627 | 50.2 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Finals Series
Grand Final
| 2001 VFL Grand Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 23 September
(2:10 pm) |
Werribee | def. by | Box Hill | Optus Oval (crowd: 11,500) | [5] |
| 3.3 (21) 4.5 (29) 6.6 (42) 7.12 (54) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
6.4 (40) 10.7 (67) 11.10 (76) 13.13 (91) |
Umpires: Davis, Grund, Quigley Norm Goss Memorial Medal: John Baird (Box Hill) | ||
| Mitchell 3, Bowden, Churchill, Contessa, McMahon | Goals | O'Farrell 3, Passador 3, Pugsley 2, Rock 2, Lord, Picioane, Ries | |||
| S. Smith, for wrestling with C. Bateman in the second quarter | Reports | C. Bateman, for wrestling with S. Smith in the second quarter | |||
Awards
- The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal was won for the third consecutive year by Nick Sautner (Frankston), who kicked 73 goals.[6]
- The J. J. Liston Trophy was jointly won by Brett Backwell (Carlton reserves) and Ezra Poyas (Coburg), who each polled 19 votes. Backwell and Poyas finished ahead of Simon Feast (Port Melbourne), who was third with 15 votes.[7]
- The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by Kristian DePasquale (Coburg).[8]
- Werribee won the reserves premiership. Werribee 17.12 (114) defeated Williamstown 12.15 (87) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 23 September.[9]
See also
- List of VFA/VFL premiers
- Australian rules football
- Victorian Football League
- Australian Football League
- 2001 AFL season
References
- ^ Fiddian, Marc (2004); The VFA; A History of the Victorian Football Association 1877-1995; p. 188
- ^ "116th Annual Report: for the year ending 31st October 2000". Fitzroy Football Club.
- ^ a b "2001 review". Footystats. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
- ^ "2001 VFL Premiership season". AustralianFootball.com. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ Gordon Oldham (24 September 2001). "Sport details". The Age (Sports section). Melbourne, VIC. p. 4.
- ^ "Frosty Miller Medallists". Fox Sports Pulse. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ "The 2001 review". Sporting Pulse. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
- ^ "Fothergill-Round Medallists". Sportingpulse. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Sport scoreboard". The Age (Sport section). Melbourne, VIC. 24 September 2001. p. 8.