The2015 VFL season was the 134th season of theVictorian Football League, a second-tierAustralian rules football competition played in the state ofVictoria.

Fifteen teams competing in the league. The season commenced on Friday 17 April and concluded Sunday 27 September with the VFL Grand Final, won byWilliamstown, who defeatedBox Hill by 54 points atEtihad Stadium. It was Williamstown's 14th top division premiership.

The size of the league reduced from sixteen teams to fifteen for the 2015 season, following the withdrawal and disbanding of theBendigo Football Club. Bendigo had enjoyed stability from 2003 until 2012 in areserves affiliation with theAustralian Football League'sEssendon, but following Essendon's establishment of a stand-alone reserves team in 2013, Bendigo had struggled to remain competitive as a stand-alone club. In June 2014, half-way through what would finish as its second consecutive winless season, the club concluded that it was not financially viable in the long term and announced it would play out the 2014 season before folding.^[1]

Specific feature of the fixture included:^[2][3]

• A Grand Final replay betweenFootscray andBox Hill Hawks headlining the opening round of a twenty-round season.
• At least twoAFL curtain raiser games to be played, with theNorthern Blues to faceNorth Ballarat in Round 5 andFrankston in Round 11 as curtain raisers toCarlton matches.
• Four night matches will be a feature of the season.
• Two matches, each between two AFL reserves teams, will be played in Bendigo atQueen Elizabeth Oval.
• TheSeven Network to broadcast one match of the round live in Victoria, midday or 11.30am each weekend.

Source:VFL season 2015 Results and Fixtures

• TheFrosty Miller Medal was won jointly bySam Grimley (Box Hill),Jordan Lisle (Port Melbourne) andLiam McBean (Richmond), who each kicked 42 goals during the home-and-away season.^[5] It was Grimley's second consecutive joint Frosty Miller Medal, and the most players ever to tie for the award. Across the completed season including finals, Grimley was the leading goalkicker with 46.^[6]
• TheJ. J. Liston Trophy was won by Nick Rippon (North Ballarat), who polled 15 votes. Four players – Myles Sewell (North Ballarat),Clint Jones (Sandringham),Matt Thomas (Richmond) andSam Dunell (Williamstown) – finished equal second with 14 votes.^[7]
• TheFothergill–Round Medal was won byAdam Marcon (Williamstown).^[8]
• The Development League premiership was won byWilliamstown. In the Grand Final, played atNorth Port Oval on 19 September as a curtain-raiser to the senior first preliminary final, Williamstown 8.13 (61) defeatedBox Hill 8.12 (60) by one point; scores were level at 60 apiece when time expired, and Williamstown scored the winning behind after three minutes of golden point extra time. It was the third consecutive year that Williamstown defeated Box Hill in the Development League Grand Final, and the second time out of those three years that the final margin was one golden point.^[9]

• After having televised VFA/VFL matches weekly since the 1987 finals series, theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation ended its broadcasting arrangement with the VFL.^[11] A new broadcast deal covering the 2015 and 2016 seasons was signed with theSeven Network, which televised the match of the round live into Melbourne as a lead-in to its AFL coverage.^[12]

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