The 1900 VFL season was the fourth season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 5 May until 22 September, and comprised a 14-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring all eight clubs. The premiership was won by the Melbourne Football Club for the first time, after it defeated by four points in the 1900 VFL Grand Final on 22 September. Premiership season In 1900, the VFL competition consisted of eight teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match. Each team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 14 rounds. Once the 14 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1900 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the 1898 VFL Premiership System. 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 3 (rescheduled) The postponed games from Round 3 were played on 18 August 1900 – results are included under Round 3 (above). Win/Loss Table Bold – Home game X – Bye Opponent for round listed above margin Ladder Ladder Progression No ladder for finals in 1900. Finals Sectional Round 1 Sectional Round 2 Sectional Round 3 Section A ladder Section B ladder Semi final Grand final Melbourne defeated Fitzroy 4.10 (34) to 3.12 (30). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). Awards The 1900 VFL Premiership team was Melbourne. The VFL's leading goalkicker was Albert Thurgood of Essendon with 25 goals. Notable events The Round 1 match between St Kilda and Melbourne ended in a draw, but the result was changed to a St Kilda victory on protest after it was noted that the umpire did not signal the end of the third quarter in the correct fashion after hearing the bell. This was St Kilda's first ever VFL win (after 48 losses), their first win since 1896 in the VFA (after 51 losses), and was the first of only two occasions that the score of a game has been changed on protest (the second was the 2006 AFL siren controversy between St