2015 VAFA season

The 2015 VAFA season was the 115th season of the Victorian Amateur Football Association, the largest senior community Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season began on 11 April and concluded on 20 September, with 70 teams participating across seven divisions under a promotion and relegation system.

Association membership

The Parkside Football Club returned to the VAFA after 12 years in the Northern Football League. Parkside had previously competed in the VAFA between 1938 and 2002, winning twelve senior premierships during that time.
After two seasons in the Club XVIII competition, Masala became a senior club, entering a senior and reserves side in [|Division 4]. Mt Lilydale, which had withdrawn from the VAFA senior competition at the end of the 2013 season as part of a club rebuild, returned to Division 4 after a year in Club XVIII.
On 5 August 2014, Banyule Football Club members voted to leave the VAFA at the end of the 2014 season and join the NFL, citing the loss of its players to competitions that allow player payments. The move was accepted after a vote of NFL clubs on 17 September 2014 and officially approved by AFL Victoria on 7 October 2014.
The Wyndham Suns announced in October 2014 that it would leave the VAFA to join the Western Region Football League, where its junior teams were already competing. The Suns had been competing in the Under-19s North Section and did not have a senior VAFA team.

Notable events

In round 18, University Blacks held a "Gay? That's OK!" match against Collegians in support of Blacks player Lachlan Beaton, who had come out as gay in a YouTube video. It was the first time that such a campaign had been held in the VAFA, and Blacks players wore jumpers featuring rainbow stripes to support the cause.

Premier

St Bernard's won the Premier Division premiership for the third time, defeating Old Trinity by eight points in the grand final.
Old Scotch and Beaumaris were relegated to [|Premier B] for the 2016 season. It was the first time since 1980 that Old Scotch had dropped down from A Section/Premier Division.