2006 VFL season

2006 VFL
Teams	13
Premiers	Sandringham Zebras (10th premiership)
Minor premiers	Northern Bullants (8th minor premiership)
Matches played	126
Leading goalkicker	Aaron Edwards, Frankston
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The 2006 Victorian Football League (VFL) is a semi-professional Australian Rules Football competition featuring 12 teams from Victoria and one team from Tasmania.

It was the 125th season of the Australian rules football competition.

League affiliations

Prior to the 2006 season, the VFL-AFL reserves affiliation which had existed for the previous three seasons between North Melbourne and Port Melbourne was terminated. In its place, North Melbourne arranged to be affiliated with both North Ballarat and Tasmania, with half of its reserves players allocated to each team. Port Melbourne continued as a stand-alone senior team in the competition.^[1]

As a result, the competition stayed constant at thirteen teams: ten VFL-AFL affiliations, one AFL reserves team (Geelong) and two stand-alone VFL teams (Port Melbourne and Frankston).

Prior to the season, Springvale came to an arrangement with the City of Casey to relocate to the new Casey Fields multi-sports complex in Cranbourne East. The club changed its name to the Casey Scorpions.^[2]

Ladder

2006 VFL Ladder

TEAM

Pct

PTS

Northern Bullants

1983

1113

178.17

Sandringham (P)

1926

1505

127.97

Geelong reserves

1784

1633

109.25

Williamstown

1690

1490

113.42

Frankston

1857

1575

117.90

Werribee

1900

1759

108.02

North Ballarat

1816

1757

103.46

Coburg

1623

1614

100.56

Tasmania

1754

1844

95.12

Box Hill

1609

2108

76.33

Casey Scorpions

1529

1862

82.12

Bendigo

1516

1991

72.14

Port Melbourne

1490

2226

66.94

Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points

Source

Finals Series

Qualifying / Elimination finals			Semi-finals		Preliminary finals		Grand final

	QF1: 2 September, AMF Oval
1	Northern Bullants	12.13 (85)
4	Williamstown	19.16 (130)	SF1: 9 September, TEAC Oval
			Northern Bullants	15.10 (100)
	EF1: 2 September, Frankston Oval		Frankston	11.15 (81)	PF1: 17 September, TEAC Oval
5	Frankston	20.13 (133)			Williamstown	12.16 (88)
8	Coburg	13.4 (82)			Geelong	17.13 (115)	GF: 24 September, Optus Oval
							Geelong	11.7 (73)
	EF2: 3 September, TEAC Oval				PF2: 16 September, TEAC Oval		Sandringham	13.13 (91)
6	Werribee	16.12 (108)			Sandringham	23.14 (152)
7	North Ballarat	28.16 (184)	SF2: 10 September, TEAC Oval		Northern Bullants	10.12 (72)
			Geelong	19.14 (128)
	QF2: 2 September, TEAC Oval		North Ballarat	19.8 (122)
2	Sandringham	20.16 (136)
3	Geelong	17.13 (115)

Grand Final


	2006 VFL Grand Final
Sunday 24 September (2:10 pm)	Sandringham	def.	Geelong	Optus Oval (Crowd: 6,000)	^[3]
	2.7 (19) 6.4 (40) 11.9 (75) 13.13 (91)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	4.3 (27) 4.3 (27) 6.5 (41) 11.7 (73)	Norm Goss Memorial Medal: Phillip Read (Sandringham)

Sautner 3, Biddlecombe 2, Motlop 2, Smith 2, Dunn, Gallagher, Liddell, Wheatley		Goals	Kingsley 4, Byrne 2, Ablett, Hunt, McCarthy, Slade

Season Awards

Awards

The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal was won by Aaron Edwards (Frankston), who kicked 88 goals.^[4]
The J. J. Liston Trophy 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 (Northern Bullants), who was third with 14 votes.^[5]
The Fothergill-Round Medal was won by Jason Davenport (Geelong reserves).^[6]
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.^[7]

VFL Team of the Year

2006 Victorian Team of the Year
B:	David Biagi (Casey)	Shaun Pollard (Frankston)	Andy Biddlecombe (Sandringham)
HB:	Daniel Harford (Northern Bullants)	Justin Crow (Northern Bullants)	Jordan Doering (Bendigo)
C:	David Gallagher (Sandringham)	James Byrne (Geelong) (Capt.)	Kyle Matthews (Casey)
HF:	Tim Hazell (Port Melbourne)	Digby Morrell (Northern Bullants)	Brett Geappen (Tasmania)
F:	James Podsiadly (Werribee)	Aaron Edwards (Frankston)	Salim Hassan (Werribee)
Foll:	Warren Carlyle (Port Melbourne)	Brett Johnson (Williamstown)	James Allen (Werribee)
Int:	Jacob King (Coburg)	Neil Winterton (Frankston)	Steven Greene (Williamstown)
	Matthew Sharkey (North Ballarat)
Coach:

References

↑ "History of the VFL 1877 - 2013". Fox Sports Pulse. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
↑ Ben Carbonaro (29 April 2006). "Good start out at Casey Fields". Retrieved 30 March 2014.
↑ "Sandy's hat trick". Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. 25 September 2006. p. 53.
↑ "Frosty Miller Medallists". Fox Sports Pulse. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
↑ "2006 Medallists across Australia". Footystats Diary. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
↑ "Fothergill-Round Medallists". Sportingpulse. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
↑ "2006 TRUEnergy VFL reserves". Fox Sports Pulse. Retrieved 30 June 2016.

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