The 1917

Victorian Football Association The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ...

season was not played owing to

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, which was at its peak at the time.

Abandonment of the season

To support the war effort in

, the Association had curtailed its 1915 season by five weeks, and then cancelled its 1916 season entirely. With the war still ongoing, the Association voted on 5 February 1917 to cancel the 1917 season as well. 1917 was the last Association season cancelled during World War I, with a premiership season held in

1918 The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people wor ...

with a reduced number of clubs.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:1917 Vfa Season Victorian Football League seasons VFL Events cancelled due to World War I