1926 VFA season
| 1926 VFA premiership season | |
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| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Coburg (1st premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Coburg (1st minor premiership) |
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1927 →
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The 1926 Victorian Football Association season was the 48th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Coburg Football Club, after it defeated Brighton by 16 points in the Final on 18 September. It was the club's first VFA premiership, achieved in only its second season of senior competition.
For the second time in six seasons, the Association was disrupted by the mid-season withdrawal of one of its clubs: Brunswick withdrawing after sixteen rounds in protest at suspensions given to two of its players.
After having been reduced from ten clubs to eight in 1925, the Association sought to admit two clubs into its senior ranks to return to ten. In January 1925, the Association decided to admit Camberwell from the Sub-district Association and Preston from the Victorian Junior Football Association. Camberwell had been one of the leading sub-district clubs for years, and had previously applied to join the Association on several occasions.
The town of Preston had previously been represented in the Association from 1903 until 1911 by a senior Preston Football Club, but this club had ceased to exist de jure, having amalgamated with Northcote prior to 1912. During the same time period, there was a separate junior-level Preston Football Club (once known as Preston Districts) competing in the Victorian Junior Football Association, and it was this Preston club which was now being admitted to the Association. However, when Northcote and the former Preston amalgamated, much of Preston's personnel and assets – including its trophies and pennants – were transferred to the junior club, providing a continuity between the two senior Preston clubs. As such, the Preston club admitted to the Association in 1926 is considered a de facto continuation of previous club.
Geelong was struggling off-field, and moved from its original home of Kardinia Park to the West Geelong ground to seek greater support. It had almost folded at the administrative level during the 1925 season, with the proposal at the time being that a new administration take over and continue to field the same team under a different identity, but this did not occur.
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