| 1892 VFA season | |
|---|---|
 Essendon – 1892 VFA premiers | |
| Overview | |
| Teams | 13 |
| Premiers | Essendon 2nd premiership |
The1892 VFA season was the 16th season of theVictorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level seniorAustralian rules football competition inVictoria.
The premiership was won by theEssendon Football Club, which finished with a record of 15 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses from 19 matches. It was Essendon's second consecutive premiership, out of a sequence of four consecutive premierships won from 1891 to 1894.
The size of the Association premiership increased to thirteen senior clubs in 1892, with the newly establishedCollingwood Football Club competing for the first time. The club was formed from the Britannia Football Club, which had been a leading junior club in the Collingwood area since the establishment of the VFA in 1877,[1] and had applied to enter the VFA since 1889.[2]
Teams did not play a uniform number of premiership matches during the season. As such, in the final standings, each team's premiership points were adjusted upwards proportionally to represent a 21-match season –e.g., Essendon played 19 matches, so its tally of premiership points was increased by a factor of 21/19. After this adjustment, there was no formal process for breaking a tie.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | GF | GA | Pts | Adj pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Essendon(P) | 19 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 131 | 53 | 66 | 72.95 |
| 2 | Fitzroy | 21 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 141 | 63 | 64 | 64.00 |
| 3 | Geelong | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 113 | 71 | 52 | 60.67 |
| 4 | Melbourne | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 103 | 79 | 46 | 53.67 |
| 5 | Carlton | 20 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 83 | 71 | 50 | 52.50 |
| 6 | South Melbourne | 21 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 91 | 85 | 44 | 44.00 |
| 7 | Port Melbourne | 20 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 76 | 77 | 38 | 39.90 |
| 8 | Richmond | 19 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 87 | 104 | 34 | 37.58 |
| 9 | St Kilda | 18 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 89 | 84 | 32 | 37.33 |
| 10 | Footscray | 20 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 59 | 107 | 26 | 27.30 |
| 11 | North Melbourne | 20 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 55 | 114 | 20 | 21.00 |
| 12 | Collingwood | 18 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 48 | 105 | 14 | 16.33 |
| 12 | Williamstown | 18 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 50 | 113 | 14 | 16.33 |