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Sydney has taken the debate over whether to recognise pre-VFL premierships in the AFL competition a step further by commissioning premiership cup and flag replicas for their club headquarters.the Swans are now treating all 10 premierships won over the club’s history equally - the three in the VFL era, the two in the AFL era, plus five won by South Melbourne in the VFA.
Watch every game of every round this Toyota AFL Premiership Season LIVE with no ad-breaks during play on Kayo. New to Kayo?. All of its premierships were won by teams which split from the competition in 1896 to create the VFL, but the leagues then ran concurrently and often used different rules including the number of players on the ground.
The VFA did not enforce a strict set of rules, in terms of game rules nor deciding premierships. And technically Victorian football premierships have been awarded since 1870 - when Melbourne won the most games in a five-team senior competition also including Albert-park, Carlton, South Yarra and Hobson’s Bay Railway.
one of Carlton’s wins was in a game played under rugby union rules against Waratah, from the NSW colony
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