VFA Footy The Halcyon Days

VFA Footy The Halcyon Days In 2011 this VFA page was the first footy comp history page on FB to give tributes to a past league. Gezza1967. V.F.A Footy The Halcyon Days!

To all the V.F.A fans out there if you have any old V.F.A photo's, memorabilia, articles, videos, ect ? please feel free to upload, all are very welcome and appreciated, thanks. What team did you play with or who did you follow? Please feel free to add your memory.

What Association and League team did you follow growing up? (Or still do for that matter AFL/VFL)
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What Association and League team did you follow growing up? (Or still do for that matter AFL/VFL)

1960's-70's Yarraville often played home games that were telecast live on television. The ATV-0 trucks were parked on Wi...
13/06/2026

1960's-70's Yarraville often played home games that were telecast live on television. The ATV-0 trucks were parked on Williamstown Road and there were 3 cameras set up in the grandstand.
Photo courtesy of Yarraville VFA page

Remembering Vic Aanensen on the 1st anniversary of his passing. (16 January 1953 – 13 June 2025)Share your memories…
13/06/2026

Remembering Vic Aanensen on the 1st anniversary of his passing.
(16 January 1953 – 13 June 2025)
Share your memories…

Williamstown's Ron James and Brunswick's Steve McGhie on the front of the round 2 VFA recorder in 1986..
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Williamstown's Ron James and Brunswick's Steve McGhie on the front of the round 2 VFA recorder in 1986..

Coburg v Box Hill at the Coburg City Oval. Mustang Rob Daly about to mark with Lion Doug Hawkins running towards the con...
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Coburg v Box Hill at the Coburg City Oval. Mustang Rob Daly about to mark with Lion Doug Hawkins running towards the contest.
Photo courtesy of David Banfield.

Happy birthday Saade Ghazi.Ghazi wins the 1989 Liston Medal in his first year at 20 years of age. In the lead up to the ...
12/06/2026

Happy birthday Saade Ghazi.
Ghazi wins the 1989 Liston Medal in his first year at 20 years of age.
In the lead up to the 2022 Liston Medal VFL Rewind is doing some feature articles on greats who won the Liston Medal.

In 89 at just 20 years of age Saade Ghazi won the Liston medal. He is one of the youngest ever winners of the award at Just 20.

The Seagulls would go on to play in the 89 grand final going down to Coburg.
Saade was drafted by Western Bulldogs in the 1991 pre season draft. But headed back to Williamstown where he would play his career at state level.

In total Saade would play 204 games for Williamstown. Saade would win a couple of leading goal kicker awards and a best and fairest in 1997. Saade is in the Williamstown team of the century in the rover position.
He is one of only five players to play 200+ for the club.
2004 he coached the Port Melbourne Reserves to a premiership and in 2008 coached Williamstown to a Reserves premiership.
One of the well remembered Williamstown great players, he even had a song written about him by one of the premiership players he coached in Nick Georgiadis. Saade is still coaching local footy.

Well Done on a great Career so far as a
player/coach.

Happy birthday Rino Pretto.The former Fitzroy, Camberwell, Coburg, Oakleigh and Dandenong VFA legend played one more lea...
12/06/2026

Happy birthday Rino Pretto.
The former Fitzroy, Camberwell, Coburg, Oakleigh and Dandenong VFA legend played one more league game than most.
After serving his apprenticeship as a full-back in the Fitzroy under-19s and reserves, Pretto finally made his senior debut late in the 1978 VFL season. The game, which took place at VFL Park, was won by Carlton who was celebrating Rod Ashman's 100th game. Pretto kicked a goal with his only kick and found himself back in the reserves the following weekend, and for the entire 1979 season.
Pretto joined the VFA in 1980 and played initially at Camberwell. He was loaned to Coburg in 1981, then returned to Camberwell for the 1982 and 1983 seasons. He was still known as a full-back at this time, but his talent as a full-forward was discovered after he kicked eight goals when filling in for an injured full-forward at Camberwell.
In 1984, he transferred to Oakleigh, and was used as a regular full-forward there. Oakleigh played in the Second Division of the VFA and Pretto was the division's leading goal-kicker on four occasions (1985–88), with his highest total in 1985 when he kicked 170 goals. In the Grand Final that year he kicked 12 goals despite playing on the losing team. His best performance in a game was in 1986 when he kicked 20 against Mordialloc, despite feeling so ill during the game that he spent the next week in hospital with a diabetic condition.
In 1989 Pretto was full-forward for the VFA's representative team which won the NFL Shield. The VFA defeated the Australian Amateurs in the final and Pretto kicked 12 goals, which is still the record number of goals in a representative match by a VFA player.
Pretto started the 1992 season with Oakleigh, but transferred to Dandenong after two rounds. He played his final three seasons with Dandenong, and topped the Association's goal-kicking with 87 goals in 1994. At retirement, the VFA interstate football representative had kicked 1070 goals, a tally only bettered by Fred Cook.
Some sources list him as playing 223 games and kicking 1095 goals in the VFA (142 games and 874 goals at Oakleigh). Pretto kicked 12 goals against Sunshine in 1989 and 13 against Brunswick-Broadmeadows in 1991, but these matches were deleted from the VFA's records as both teams dropped out of the VFA and folded during the relevant season.
* Wikipedia

Happy birthday Greg Hutchison.Originally from Chelsea Football Club, Hutchison made his senior VFL debut in 1975 for the...
12/06/2026

Happy birthday Greg Hutchison.
Originally from Chelsea Football Club, Hutchison made his senior VFL debut in 1975 for the Melbourne Football Club and appeared sporadically for the Demons until the early 1980s. Much of his football was played in the reserves but he managed 96 senior games, as a utility.

From 1986 to 1989, Hutchison captain coached in the VFA with Prahran, steering them to the 1987 second division premiership.

In 1997, Hutchison was appointed caretaker senior coach of Melbourne Football Club after their senior coach Neil Balme was sacked mid-season. His side won three of the 13 games that he coached that year and he wasn't reappointed to the position the following season, with Neale Daniher appointed to the position of senior coach of Melbourne Football Club.

Hutchison then joined Richmond as an assistant coach. In 2008 he was announced as the coach of the Casey Scorpions. He held the position of Football Manager at the St Kilda Football Club under the Ross Lyon regime and was courted to join him at Fremantle Football Club before accepting his current role at the AFL Coaches Association. In 2015 he was announced as the coach of Old Brighton Football Club in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, leading them to premiership success in 2017 over Scotch Old Collegians Football Club.

* Wikipedia

Box Hill v Williamstown photo courtesy of David Banfield. What players do you recognise?
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Box Hill v Williamstown photo courtesy of David Banfield. What players do you recognise?

1988 VFA Recorder 1st Division Round 11 Port Melbourne v Box Hill team lists. Port got up by 10 goals and Dean Cooper bo...
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1988 VFA Recorder 1st Division Round 11 Port Melbourne v Box Hill team lists. Port got up by 10 goals and Dean Cooper booted 5 goals for the Borough.

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