State Jumpers - VFA-VFL (overview)

VFA-VFL REPRESENTATIVE UNIFORMS

The Victorian Football Association (VFA) has had a long and varied role in representative football and, together with the South Australian Football Association (forerunner of today's SANFL), in 1879 they played the very first intercolonial match of Australian football.

The VFA also served as the governing body of Victorian football from 1877 to 1896 yet many modern fans have been deluded into thinking top level football in Victoria started in 1897, when eight VFA clubs broke away to form the VFL.

Today, after well over 100 seasons of play the VFA (renamed the VFL in 1996) currently sits on the second tier of Australian football, acting as a feeder competition for the national league (AFL). Their representative team plays annual matches against the other major State Leagues from around Australia - the SANFL, the WAFL, the TSL and the NEAFL.

VFA-VFL REPRESENTATIVE UNIFORMS HISTORY

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TIMELINE

1877-1896 - INTERCOLONIAL ERA

1879-1881

1886-1887

1889 (May)

1889 (July)

1890-1892

1893 v SA & Tasmania

1893 v Port Adelaide

1894

Click here to see the state uniforms worn by the VFL-AFL 1897-2008

1897-1949 - POST-VFL BREAKAWAY

1897

1900

1902-1905

1906

1907-1908

1909-1920

1921

1923-1927

1931 (June)

1931 (Aug.)

1932

1934-1937

NOTE - due to the photographic development techniques used prior to the mid-1930s, the colours of many representative team uniforms were inverted in newspaper photos. Click here to read more about this phenomenon.