2002 VFL season

The 2002 VFL season was the 121st season of the Victorian Football League, a second-tier Australian rules football competition played in the states of Victoria and Tasmania. The season featured 16 clubs and ran from 5 April to 22 September, comprising a 20-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week [|finals series] featuring the top eight clubs.
won the premiership for the first time, defeating by 22 points in the [|2002 VFL Grand Final].

Home-and-away season

The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal was won for the fourth consecutive year by Nick Sautner, who kicked 93 goals.
The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Sam Mitchell. In the most dominant Liston Trophy performance in history, Mitchell polled 31 votes in only eleven games, including ten best-on-ground performances. Dean Talbot was second with 19 votes, and Mark Bradley was third with 18 votes.
The Fothergill–Round Medal was won by Michael Firrito.
Williamstown won the reserves premiership. Williamstown 11.15 defeated Werribee 10.14 in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 22 September.

In Round 13, 11.5 trailed 18.14 by 51 points at three-quarter time, before kicking nine goals to no score in the final quarter to win the game by nine points, 20.11 d. 18.14.
The round 17 match between and had its start time moved from 2pm to 1:10pm to allow for an ABC television broadcast.