The 2006 VFL season was the 125th season of the

Victorian Football League 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 ...

(VFL), a second-tier

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

competition played in the states of

Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Queen Victoria (1819–1901), Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India * Victoria (state), a state of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, a provincial capital * Victoria, Seychelles, the capi ...

and

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

League affiliations

Prior to the 2006 season, the VFL–AFL reserves affiliation which had existed for the previous three seasons between

North Melbourne North Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne Local government ar ...

and

Port Melbourne Port Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of the Melbourne central business district, located within the Cities of City of Melbourne, Melbourne and City of Port Phillip, Port Phillip Local government ...

was terminated. In its place, North Melbourne arranged to be affiliated with both North Ballarat and

, with half of its reserves players allocated to each team. Port Melbourne continued as a stand-alone senior team in the competition. As a result, the competition stayed constant at thirteen teams: ten VFL–AFL affiliations, one AFL reserves team () and two stand-alone VFL teams (Port Melbourne and Frankston). Prior to the season, Springvale came to an arrangement with the

City of Casey The City of Casey is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Casey is Victoria's most populous municipality, with a 2021 population of 365,239. It has an area of . The city is named afte ...

to relocate to the new

Casey Fields Casey Fields is a $30 million, 70 hectare multi-sports complex in the City of Casey at Cranbourne East, a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The complex is home to Australian rules football, cricket, netball, soccer, tennis, cycle spor ...

multi-sports complex in

Cranbourne East Cranbourne East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 45 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Casey local government area. Cranbourne East recorded a population of 24,679 at the . Fac ...

. The club changed its name to the Casey Scorpions.

Ladder

Finals Series

Grand Final

Season Awards

Awards

*The

Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal is awarded to the Victorian Football League player who kicks the most goals in home-and-away matches in that year. The is named in honour of Jim 'Frosty' Miller, who was the leading goalkicker of the Victorian Footbal ...

was won by

Aaron Edwards Aaron Edwards (born 2 March 1984) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the West Coast Eagles, North Melbourne Football Club and Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Edwards also played ...

( Frankston), who kicked 88 goals. *The

J. J. Liston Trophy The J. J. Liston Trophy is awarded annually to the best and fairest senior player in the Victorian Football League (VFL), which was formerly known as the Victorian Football Association (VFA). It is named after J. J. Liston, J.J. Liston, a busine ...

was also won by Aaron Edwards (Frankston), who polled 18 votes. Edwards finished ahead of Brett Johnson ( Williamstown), who was second with 17 votes, and

Daniel Harford Daniel Harford (born 19 March 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. Harford played for the Hawthorn Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and was senior coach of Carlton in the AFL Wom ...

(

Northern Bullants The Northern Bullants are a semi-professional Australian rules football club that currently competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The club, which is based in the Melbourne suburb of Preston, plays its home games at Preston City Ov ...

), who was third with 14 votes. *The Fothergill–Round Medal was won by

Jason Davenport Jason Davenport (born 4 September 1985) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Geelong Football Club and Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Career A former basketballer and sprinter in his ...

( Geelong reserves). * Box Hill won the reserves premiership. Box Hill 10.11 (71) defeated Williamstown 8.11 (59) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 24 September.

VFL Team of the Year

Notable events

*Commencing this season, a two year rule trial was conducted throughout the VFL premiership season on behalf of the AFL, under which a backwards kick to a team-mate which was caught in the defensive half of the ground would be called play-on instead of a mark; a line was painted across the centre of the field to accommodate.

References

External links

AFL Victoria websiteTRUenergy VFL website
{{VFA/VFL seasons Victorian Football League seasons VFL