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In 1888, the VFA first took responsibility for the onfield competition, and introduced its first formal premiership system by adopting a system of premiership points;<ref name="premiership88" /> it also awarded for the first time a premiership cap in the Association's colours to players of the premier team.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Australasian|date=4 May 1889|author=Markwell|title=Football Notes|publication-place=Melbourne|page=931|volume=XLVI|issue=1205}}</ref> The Association's influence over the on-field competition grew, and from 1894, the Association assumed responsibility for centrally setting the fixtures and standardising the number of games played by each team.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|publication-place=Melbourne|title=The coming football season|page=6|date=20 March 1894}}</ref>
After the formal introduction of the premiership, the often-changeable collection of senior clubs in the VFA soon became settled at twelve premiership-eligible clubs: {{AFL Car}}, {{AFL Ess}}, [[Fitzroy Football Club|Fitzroy]], [[Footscray Football Club|Footscray]], {{AFL Gee}}, {{AFL Mel}}, {{AFL
==== Split (1897–1937) ====
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[[File:Northcote 1929.jpg|250px|left|thumb|Northcote's 1929 premiership side. Second from right, front row, is [[Doug Nicholls]].]]
Over the first thirty years of the VFA's independence, its relationship with the VFL was, in general, mutually antagonistic. At different times (1913–1918 and 1923–1925), the two competitions had permit reciprocity agreements in place to prevent one competition from poaching players from the other without a [[retain and transfer system|clearance]], but these were sporadic and remained in place only when convenient to both competitions.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Argus|date=20 January 1923|title=Football Control|page=20|publication-place=Melbourne}}</ref> At the same time, the strongest clubs in the VFA often sought to defect to the VFL, which the VFL was happy to encourage when it expanded, and there were ultimately four defections: {{AFL Ric}} in 1908; and {{AFL Foo}}, {{AFL
The loss of the VFA's strongest three clubs to the VFL in 1925 firmly cemented the VFA as the second-tier competition in the state. Between 1925 and 1929, the addition of outer suburban clubs in [[Coburg Football Club|Coburg]] (1925), [[Camberwell Football Club|Camberwell]] (1926), a new club from [[Northern Bullants|Preston]] (1926), [[Yarraville Football Club|Yarraville]] (1928), [[Oakleigh Football Club|Oakleigh]] (1929) and [[Sandringham Football Club|Sandringham]] (1929) expanded the VFA back to twelve teams. The relationship with the VFL improved, and a new permit reciprocity agreement was established in 1931.<ref>{{citation|title=Seagulls over Williamstown|last=Fiddian|first=Marc|year=2003|publisher=Williamstown Football Club|publication-place=Williamstown, VIC|page=55}}</ref>
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==== Merger with the AFL reserves (2000–2019) ====
{{See also|AFL reserves}}
[[File:Ivan Maric VFL092017.jpg|thumb|Action from the [[2017 VFL season|2017 VFL Grand Final]] at [[Docklands Stadium]].]]
From 1995 until 1999, the VSFL operated its two open-age competitions – the VFA/VFL and the [[AFL reserves|Victorian AFL Reserves competition]] – separately; however, its intention had always been to merge the two, and this took place following the 1999 season, after the agreement of the AFL clubs. Under the administration's new name ''Football Victoria'' (later [[AFL Victoria]]), those two competitions were merged into a single competition still known as the Victorian Football League. Since this time, the VFL has been contested by a mixture of three types of clubs:
*VFL clubs, operating on a stand-alone basis and maintaining a complete list of players
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