The1924Victorian Football Association season was the 46th season of theAustralian rules football competition. The premiership was won by theFootscray Football Club, after it defeatedWilliamstown by 45 points in the final on 20 September. It was the club's ninth and last VFA premiership before it, along withNorth Melbourne andHawthorn, joined theVictorian Football League the following year; this marked the end of a long period of dominance for Footscray, which had seen it win five minor premierships in a row and four major premierships in six years.
The home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds, with each club playing the others twice; then, the top four clubs contested a finals series under theamendedArgus system to determine the premiers for the season.
Prior to the season, the V.F.A. became affiliated with theVictorian Junior Football Association. Under the arrangement, each of the junior clubs which served as a seconds team for a V.F.A. club joined the V.J.F.A; and, the V.J.F.A expanded to eighteen clubs in two divisions.[6][7] The V.J.F.A. would end up becoming the V.F.A. seconds competition over the following few years.
George Gough (Northcote) kicked 25 goals and 7 behinds in Northcote's match againstPrahran in the final round of home-and-home matches on August 30.[1] Gough broke the Association record of 18 goals in a match, scored byDave McNamara (Essendon (A.)) in1912, and broke the national record of 23 goals in a top level senior match, set by Bos Daly (Norwood) in 1893 and matched byHugh Campbell (Western Australia) in1924.[9] Gough scored eleven goals in the final quarter.[1]
George Gough was the Association's leading goalscorer for the year, finishing with eighty goals in the home-and-home season.[1]
Two clubs completed extremely long home winning streaks during the season:Footscray left the Association at the end of the season, after being unbeaten at theWestern Oval in 47 consecutive matches; andPort Melbourne was beaten at thePort Melbourne Cricket Ground for the first time since 1920, ending a 33-match winning streak.[11]
