2025 Victoria Premier League 1

The 2025 Victoria Premier League 1 is the second season of the Victoria Premier League 1, the third-tier competition in Australian football and the second-tier in Victorian football.The season was won by Bentleigh Greens, who along with Caroline Springs George Cross, were promoted to National Premier Leagues Victoria for the 2026 season.
One team placed fourth to seventh will also be promoted through a play-off.
Eastern Lions, Kingston City, and Moreland City were relegated to the Victoria Premier League 2.
Western United's overall license was revoked on 8 August 2025. and appealed by the club, Subsequently, the club's owners WMG Holdings were placed in liquidation on 29 August, after a Federal Court order, which was also appealed by the club. They were withdrawn from the promotion playoffs.

Teams

14 teams competed in the 2025 Victoria Premier League 1 in 2025.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Bentleigh Greens	Cheltenham	Kingston Heath Soccer Complex	3,300
Brunswick City	Brunswick West	Dunstan Reserve	1,000
Bulleen Lions	Bulleen	David Barro Stadium	3,000
Caroline Springs George Cross	Fraser Rise	City Vista Recreation Reserve	3,000
Eastern Lions	Burwood	Gardiners Reserve	1,500
Kingston City	Clayton South	The Grange Reserve	2,000
Langwarrin	Langwarrin South	Lawton Park Reserve	5,000
Manningham United Blues	Templestowe	Pettys Reserve	1,000
Melbourne City Youth	Cranbourne East	City Football Academy	1,500
Melbourne Srbija	Burnley	Kevin Bartlett Reserve	2,500
Moreland City	Coburg	Campbell Reserve	1,000
Northcote City	Thornbury	John Cain Memorial Park	5,000
North Sunshine Eagles	St Albans	Larisa Reserve	500
Western United Youth	Tarneit	Wyndham Regional Football Facility	5,000

Teams played a full home-and-away schedule. At the end of the season the top two clubs were promoted to the National Premier Leagues Victoria. with the next four teams entering the Promotion play-offs. The bottom three teams were relegated to the Victoria Premier League 2.

Due to the removal of Western United Youth, teams placed third, fifth, sixth and seventh in the regular season compete in the play-offs. The winner will be promoted to the National Premier Leagues Victoria in 2026.

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Luke Jonathan Lofts scored the most goals.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals	Games
1	Luke Jonathan Lofts	Caroline Springs George Cross	16	25	0.62
2	Joshua Whiteley	Caroline Springs George Cross	14	23	0.61
2	Ndue Mujeci	North Sunshine Eagles	14	25	0.56
4	Nathan Stamatelos	Kingston City & Bulleen Lions	13	25	0.52
5	Kaan Elibol	North Sunshine Eagles	12	26	0.46

Melbourne City player Peter Antoniou and Kingston City player Jack Foden both had two red cards during the season.

Jack Foden had the highest number of yellow cards.