1922 VFL season

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Ladder

Finals

Semi finals

Preliminary Final

Grand final

Awards

• The 1922 VFL Premiership team was Fitzroy.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Horrie Clover of Carlton with 54 goals.
• South Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1922.
• The Victorian Junior League premiership, which is today recognised as the VFL reserves premiership, was won by 's team, Collingwood District. Collingwood District 8.10 defeated Essendon Juniors 1.9 in the challenge Grand Final, played as a curtain-raiser to the senior Grand Final on 14 October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

  Notable events

• Essendon began playing its home games at the Essendon Recreation Reserve from this season, after the closure of the East Melbourne Cricket Ground at the end of 1921.
• Boundary umpires became responsible for bringing the ball back to the centre after a goal has been scored.
• Angry Richmond fans invaded the field after Richmond's 10-point loss against Essendon in Round 5. Field umpire Arthur Norden, later received a letter threatening his life, and he retired.
• The first issue of the "pink paper", the Saturday evening newspaper, The Sporting Globe, was published on 22 July 1922.
• In the round 17 match against Geelong, St Kilda's centre half-forward Dave McNamara had 12 kicks for the match. From the twelve kicks he scored ten goals, nine of them with place-kicks, and tenth with a punt-kick. By contrast with that accurate kicking, on the following Saturday, in the round 18 match against Richmond, McNamara kicked 1.13.
• South Melbourne's percentage is the highest ever by the team finishing last.