2000 VFL season

2000 VFL Premiership Season
Teams	18
Premiers	Sandringham (7th premiership)
Minor premiers	Sandringham (5th minor premiership)
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The 2000 Victorian Football League season was the 119th season of the Australian rules football competition.

The premiership was won by the Sandringham Football Club, after defeating North Ballarat by 31 points in the Grand Final on the 27th of August.

Premiership season

Ladder

2000 VFL Ladder
	TEAM	P	W	L	D	PF	PA	Pct	PTS
1	Sandringham (P)	19	16	3	0	2151	1460	147.33	64
2	North Ballarat	19	14	5	0	2079	1667	124.72	56
3	Carlton reserves	19	14	5	0	2079	1667	124.72	56
4	St Kilda reserves	19	13	6	0	2094	1520	137.76	52
5	Geelong reserves	19	13	6	0	2017	1723	117.06	52
6	Williamstown	19	13	6	0	2006	1746	114.89	52
7	Box Hill	18	13	6	0	1892	1647	114.88	52
8	Springvale	19	12	6	1	1648	1564	105.37	50
9	Werribee	19	10	8	1	2025	1839	110.11	42
10	Essendon reserves	19	10	9	0	1778	1783	99.72	40
11	Collingwood reserves	19	9	10	0	1731	1871	92.52	36
12	Frankston	19	8	10	1	1903	1911	99.58	34
13	Port Melbourne	19	6	13	0	1787	1858	96.18	24
14	Murray Kangaroos	19	6	13	0	1632	1850	88.22	24
15	Coburg	19	4	15	0	1483	1744	85.03	16
16	Northern Bullants	19	4	15	0	1495	2226	67.16	16
17	Richmond reserves	19	3	15	1	1501	2119	70.84	14
18	Bendigo	19	1	18	0	1316	2413	54.54	4
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points								Source

Finals Series

	Qualifying / Elimination finals					Semi-finals						Preliminary finals				Grand final
		QF1: August 7, Waverley Park
	1	Sandringham	9.14 (68)
	4	St Kilda	10.7 (67)			SF1: August 13, North Port Oval
						St Kilda	8.14 (62)
		EF1: August 6, North Port Oval				Geelong	9.13 (67)					PF1: August 20, North Port Oval
	5	Geelong	15.11 (101)									Sandringham	22.23 (155)
	8	Springvale	8.12 (60)									Carlton	12.9 (81)			GF: August 27, Waverley Park
																Sandringham	15.18 (108)
		EF2: August 5, North Port Oval										PF2: September 11, North Port Oval				North Ballarat	11.11 (77)
	6	Williamstown	22.17 (149)									Geelong	12.7 (79)
	7	Box Hill	15.14 (104)			SF2: August 12, North Port Oval						North Ballarat	20.13 (133)
						Carlton	19.11 (125)
		QF2: August 5, North Port Oval				Williamstown	7.9 (51)
	2	North Ballarat	17.24(126)
	3	Carlton	10.6 (66)

Grand Final

	2000 VFL Grand Final
Sunday 27 August (2:10 pm)	Sandringham	def.	North Ballarat	Waverley Park (Crowd: 8,652)
	4.6 (30) 8.10 (58) 11.14 (80) 15.18 (108)	Q1 Q2 Q3 Final	0.5 (5) 3.5 (23) 5.8 (38) 11.11 (77)	Norm Goss Memorial Medal: Richard Maloney (Sandringham)

Notable events

• Bendigo's six point win against Murray in Round 17 was its final ever win as a stand-alone VFL club. Its remaining 78 games as a stand-alone club (spanning seasons 2000–2002 and 2013–2014 and excluding the period of its reserves affiliation with Essendon) yielded one draw and 77 losses.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

See also

• List of VFA/VFL premiers
• Australian Rules Football
• Victorian Football League
• Australian Football League
• 2000 AFL season

References

1. "Victorian Football League (VFL), 2000". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
2. "Victorian Football League (VFL), 2001". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
3. "Victorian Football League (VFL), 2002". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
4. "Victorian Football League (VFL), 2013". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
5. "Victorian Football League (VFL), 2014". Australian Football.com. Retrieved 7 March 2015.