1992 VFA season

In the home-and-away season, each team played eighteen games; the top five then contested the finals under the McIntyre final five system. Finals were played at North Port Oval, and the grand final was played at Princes Park.

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Elimination final}}

{{AFLGame|Saturday, 29 August|Werribee|14.4 (88)|A|Box Hill|23.16 (154)|North Port Oval|1,850|{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Age (Sport Liftout)|publication-place=Melbourne|page=18|author=Ross Booth|date=30 August 1992|title=Revitalised Box Hill triumph}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Qualifying final}}

{{AFLGame|Sunday, 30 August|Williamstown|17.11 (113)|A|Prahran|18.10 (118){{ref|1|Note}}|North Port Oval|3,652|{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=28|author=Darrin Farrant|date=31 August 1992|title=Two Blues scrape through after extra time}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=First semi-final}}

{{AFLGame|Saturday, 5 September|Williamstown|9.12 (66)|H|Box Hill|3.16 (34)|North Port Oval|4,875|{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Age (Sport Liftout)|publication-place=Melbourne|page=19|author=Ross Booth|date=6 September 1992|title=Seagulls fly high in fiery clash}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Second semi-final}}

{{AFLGame|Sunday, 6 September|Sandringham|18.5 (113)|H|Prahran|13.7 (85)|North Port Oval|4,331|{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|pages=30, 32|author=Darrin Farrant|date=7 September 1992|title=Injury-hit Zebras through to Grand Final}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Preliminary Final}}

{{AFLGame|Sunday, 13 September|Prahran|5.7 (37)|A|Williamstown|7.16 (58)|North Port Oval|4,485|{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=29|author=Darrin Farrant|date=14 September 1992|title=Seagulls bury Prahran to set up tilt at flag}}}}

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{{AFLGameDetailed

|title = 1992 VFA Grand Final

|date = Sunday, 20 September

|home team = Sandringham

|home Q1= 6.3 (39)

|home Q2= 11.4 (70)

|home Q3= 15.13 (103)

|home final= 19.16 (130)

|home goals= F. Rugolo 6, Gorozidis 5, M. Williams 3, Angus, Bailey, Ford, C. Garrett, Krakouer

|home injuries =

|home reports =

|winner = H

|away team = Williamstown

|away Q1= 3.3 (21)

|away Q2= 4.3 (27)

|away Q3= 8.4 (52)

|away final= 13.8 (86)

|away goals= Dwyer 3, Ghazi 3, Mitchell 2, Rickman 2, Lloyd, O'Connor, Williams

|away injuries =

|away reports =

|venue = Princes Park

|crowd = 20,847

|report = {{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|author=Darrin Farrant|page=25|date=21 September 1992|title=Zebras win approval from the vanquished}}

|umpires = K. Callaghan, John Russo

|BOG award = Norm Goss Memorial Medal

|BOG winner = Joe Rugolo (Sandringham)

|broadcast =

|anthem =

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• The joint-leading goalkickers for the home-and-away season were Frank Rugolo (Sandringham) and Jamie Shaw, who each kicked 73 goals.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=27|author=Darrin Farrant|date=26 August 1992|title=Zebras' Tarpey the Liston favourite}} For the whole season including finals, the leading goalkicker was Ian Rickman (Williamstown), who kicked 82 goals.
• The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Joe Rugolo (Sandringham), who polled 19 votes. Rugolo finished ahead of Simon Clark (Springvale), Tom Snelton (Prahran) and Paul Williams (Frankston), who finished equal-second with sixteen votes apiece.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=28|author=Darrin Farrant|date=27 August 1992|title=Outsider Rugolo wins Liston}}
• The Fothergill–Round Medal was won by Julian Shanks (Williamstown).{{cite web|url=http://www.foxsportspulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?client=0-118-0-0-0&sID=54554&&news_task=DETAIL&articleID=4834467|title=Fothergill–Round Medallists|access-date=20 December 2014|date=29 October 2014|publisher=Sportingpulse}}
• Frankston won the seconds premiership. Frankston 19.10 (124) defeated Preston 12.13 (85) in the grand final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors grand final on 20 September.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=80|author=Darrin Farrant|date=21 September 1992|title=Zebras charge to victory}}

The Association played one interleague match, against the Victorian Country Football League, during the 1992 season. The match was played as a curtain-raiser to the state-of-origin match between Victoria and Western Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=31|author=Darrin Farrant|date=23 May 1992|title=Revitalised Mustangs have Vales covered}} Leon Harris (Werribee) was coach of the Association team and Tony Pastore (Williamstown) was captain; the VCFL was coached by Gerard FitzGerald, who two decades later became the all-time record holder for VFA/VFL premiership games coached.{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne|page=74|author=Peter Hanlon|date=25 May 1992|title=Harris aiming to be No. 1}}

{{AFLGameHeader|title=1992 Interleague matches}}

{{AFLGame|Tuesday, 26 May (4:45pm)|V.F.A.|32.7 (199)|H|V.C.F.L.|15.7 (97)|Melbourne Cricket Ground|32,152 (C-R)|{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne|author=Paul Gough|page=85|date=27 May 1992|title=VFA is king of Vic footy}}}}

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During March, Dandenong and Werribee contested the Premiers Cup, a new (but ultimately once-off) sixteen-team knock-out competition featuring 1991 grand finalists from the VFA and the Victorian Amateur Football Association, and the premiers from twelve other suburban and major country football leagues in Victoria. The two Association teams faced each other in their semi-final, with Werribee victorious. Werribee then defeated future VFL club North Ballarat in the grand final, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 28 March as a curtain-raiser to an Australian Football League match between {{AFL Mel}} and {{AFL Gee}}; notably, it was the first football game played in front of the ground's newly constructed Great Southern Stand.

The results of games featuring Association teams are given below.

{{AFLGameHeader|title=First round}}

{{AFLGame|Sunday, 8 March|Dandenong|13.15 (93)|H|Traralgon|11.8 (74)|||{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=25|date=9 March 1992|title=Football}}}}

{{AFLGame|Monday, 9 March|Werribee|17.17 (119)|H|South Bendigo|7.9 (51)|Kyneton{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne|page=39|date=8 March 1992|title=Dominator returns to Waverley}}||{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne|page=51|date=10 March 1992|title=Football}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Quarter finals}}

{{AFLGame|Saturday, 14 March|Dandenong|17.12 (114)|H|De La Salle|17.8 (110)|Frankston Park||{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=28|date=15 March 1992|title=Football}}}}

{{AFLGame|Sunday, 15 March|Werribee|21.19 (145)|H|Bell Park|7.5 (47)|||{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=29|date=16 March 1992|title=Football}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Semi finals}}

{{AFLGame|Sunday, 22 March|Werribee|22.13 (145)|H|Dandenong|10.5 (65)|Frankston Park||{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=35|date=23 March 1992|title=Football}}}}

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{{AFLGameHeader|title=Grand final}}

{{AFLGame|Saturday, 28 March|Werribee|30.20 (200)|H|North Ballarat|12.14 (86)|Melbourne Cricket Ground|38,646 (C-R)|{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Age (Sport Liftout)|publication-place=Melbourne|author=Ross Booth|page=2|date=29 March 1992|title=Werribee cruises to cup victory}}}}

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• After 33 years of fielding sixteen players per side, the Association returned to fielding the national standard eighteen players per side in senior and reserves games from 1992.{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Age (Sport Liftout)|publication-place=Melbourne|page=18|author=Phil Cleary|date=8 April 1992|title=VFA goes home to fans}}
• The Association abandoned the practice of playing the ABC's televised match-of-the-round at the central North Port Oval, which had been the case since 1988, in favour of playing at the home team's normal home venue, due to the low crowds drawn to North Port Oval matches not featuring Port Melbourne.
• On 26 April, Preston 22.5 (137) defeated Williamstown 20.14 (134) after Preston's Anthony Cardamone – who had been brought into the team as an emergency and had spent the first half of the game on the bench – kicked a goal from 25m after the final siren.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=25|author=Darrin Farrant|date=27 April 1992|title=Bullants rejoice at replacements last-gasp winner}}
• On 30 May, Sandringham 26.17 (173) defeated a remarkably accurate Preston 17.1 (103). Mark Sedgwick scored Preston's sole behind with a dribbled kick at the goals with ten seconds remaining in the final quarter.{{cite news|newspaper=The Sunday Age (Sport Liftout)|publication-place=Melbourne|page=19|author=Ross Booth|date=31 May 1992|title=Five in row for Zebras}}
• {{note|1}} In the qualifying final between Williamstown and Prahran, Williamstown recovered from a 31-point deficit in the final quarter to tie the scores at 16.10 (106) at the end of regulation time, resulting in ten minutes of extra time (in two five-minute halves) being played to decide the game. It was the first time extra time had been used in a VFA finals match, and many present, including Prahran coach Brian Taylor, were unaware that the provision to play extra time had recently been introduced to avoid the need to replay entire finals matches.
• Overuse and inclement weather during the finals turned North Port Oval into a mudheap. The Association moved as many minor grade finals away from the ground as it could (playing many at Chirnside Park) and unsuccessfully attempted to shift the senior preliminary final to an AFL ground.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|publication-place=Melbourne|page=26|author=David Saunders|date=10 September 1992|title=VFA fails to shift preliminary final}}

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