1923 VFL season

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Ladder

Finals

Semi Finals

Preliminary Final

Grand Final

Awards

• The 1923 VFL Premiership team was Essendon.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Greg Stockdale of Essendon with 68 goals.
• Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1923.
• The Victorian Junior League premiership, which is today recognised as the VFL reserves premiership, was won by. Geelong 9.12 defeated 5.10 in the challenge Grand Final, played as a curtain-raiser to the senior Grand Final on 20 October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

  Notable events

• New scoreboards are erected at each home ground by the VFL's publication, The Football Record. With the help of a key published in that Saturday afternoon's Record, spectators can decipher the coded quarter-by-quarter scores of the other three matches as they appear on these scoreboards throughout the afternoon.
• After the round 13 match against Essendon at Windy Hill, at an after-match function in the Essendon rooms, Carlton rover George Bolt and backman Jack Morrissey came to blows. The Carlton Committee met the next day and suspended both players indefinitely. Bolt never played for Carlton again ; Jack Morrissey played his next game for Carlton on 27 June 1925.
• The 1922 Victorian Interstate team captain, and Carlton star ruckman, Bert Boromeo was overheard being intensely critical of the Carlton captain-coach Horrie Clover at the same function. The Carlton Committee was upset at such behaviour occurring on the premises of another club, and suspended Boromeo immediately; eventually, in 1926, Carlton cleared Boromeo to Richmond for whom he played 14 games.
• The Essendon Premiership team was known as the "Mosquito Fleet", due to the number of small, very fast players in the side. Six were 5'6" or less: Charlie Hardy 5'1", who played his first VFL game at the age of 34, George Shorten 5'5", Jack Garden 5'5", Frank Maher 5'6", Vince Irwin 5'6", and Jimmy Sullivan 5'6".
• In Round 10 against St. Kilda, Essendon kicked the season's lowest score, but they still won the premiership. They became the first premier team to have also kicked the season's lowest score, an occurrence replicated in 1968, 1970, 1992 and 1995.
• The Challenge Final match had to be postponed for a week as the Melbourne Cricket Ground was under water due to intense rain. This meant that the Challenge Final was played on Saturday 20 October 1923, Caulfield Cup Day.