1914 MAFA season


The 1914 MAFA season was the 23rd season of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The season began on 26 April and concluded on 19 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season, followed by a three-week [|finals series].
South Yarra won the MAFA premiership for the third time, defeating by 22 points in the [|1914 MAFA Grand Final].

Association membership

At the end of the 1913 season, applied and was admitted into the Victorian Football Association, leaving the MAFA. They were replaced by Elsternwick, which had been competing in the Federal Football Association, keeping the size of the MAFA at 10 clubs.

Finals

At the time, the MAFA used the Argus finals system, which gave the club that finished first on the ladder at the end of the home-and-away season the right to challenge the winner of the finals series for the premiership.
Although they lost the semi-final to, South Yarra had the right to challenge. Thus, played Fitzroy Juniors in a preliminary final, with the winner of that match playing South Yarra in the grand final.

Notable events

  • A match in August between Beverley and had a delayed start after the central umpire appointed for the match was unable to attend. Beverley allowed "one of the Leopold men" to act as central umpire, assisted by two boundary umpires.
  • South Yarra full-forward Moyes kicked close to 70 goals for the 1914 season.