1922 MAFA season
The 1922 MAFA season was the 27th season of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The season began on 6 May and concluded on 26 August, comprising a home-and-away season, followed by a three-week [|finals series].
For the first time, clubs were split into two divisions − [|A Section] and [|B Section]. No promotion and relegation system was in place, with the top four teams from each division playing in a combined finals series.
won the MAFA premiership for the second time and the second year in a row, defeating Collegians in the [|1922 MAFA Grand Final].
Association membership
South Yarra left the MJFA following the end of the 1921 season. Old Brightonians, which had failed to win a single game in 1921, also withdrew prior to the start of the 1922 season.Four new clubs − Black Rock, Elwood, Melbourne Shipping Company and Murrumbeena − entered the MJFA. Melbourne Shipping Company disbanded on 17 July 1922, and its remaining games were treated as walkovers.
Notable events
- An independent MAFA tribunal, as well as an Umpire's Association, were established in 1922.