1905 VFL premiership season
Fitzroy 1905 VFL premiership team
Date	6 May—30 September 1905
Teams	8
Premiers	Fitzroy 4th premiership
Minor premiers	Collingwood 3rd minor premiership
Leading goalkicker medallist	Charlie Pannam (Collingwood) 38 goals
Matches played	72
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The1905 VFL season was the ninth season of theVictorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs and ran from 6 May to 30 September, comprising a 17-match home-and-away season followed by a three-weekfinals series featuring the top four clubs.

Fitzroy won thepremiership, defeatingCollingwood by 13 points in the1905 VFL grand final; it was Fitzroy's second consecutive premiership and fourth VFL premiership overall. Collingwood won theminor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–2 win–loss record. Collingwood'sCharlie Pannam won theleading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.

In 1905, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other.

Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1905 VFLPremiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of theamended "Argus system".

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Source:AFL Tables

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 51.2
Source:AFL Tables

• Collingwood used only 24 players to play its nineteen games – the smallest number of players to represent one club in a VFL/AFL season.^[1]
• TheAustralasian Football Council was formed.
• VFL decides to pay field umpires 30 shillings per match, and boundary umpires seven shillings per match (approx $75.00 and $20.00 in 2008 buying power).

• The 1905 VFL Premiership team wasFitzroy.
• TheVFL's leading goalkicker wasCharlie Pannam ofCollingwood with 38 goals.
• Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1905.

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