The 1903 VFL season was the seventh season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured eight clubs, ran from 2 May until 12 September, and comprised a 17-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The premiership was won by the Collingwood Football Club for the second time and second time consecutively, after it defeated by two points in the 1903 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season In 1903, 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. Then, based on ladder positions after those 14 rounds, three further 'sectional rounds' were played, with the teams ranked 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th playing in one section and the teams ranked 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th playing in the other. Once the 17 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1903 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system". Round 1 |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Date |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 3.3 (21) | | 11.7 (73) | East Melbourne Cricket Ground | 2 May 1903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 9.4 (58) | | 5.7 (37) | Princes Park | 2 May 1903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 6.14 (50) | | 5.13 (43) | Lake Oval | 2 May 1903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 2.8 (20) | | 9.18 (72) | Junction Oval | 2 May 1903 Round 2 |- bgcolor="#CCCCFF" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Date |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 13.14 (92) | | 3.6 (24) | Victoria Park | 9 May 1903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 4.5 (29) | | 6.11 (47) | MCG | 9 May 1903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 3.12 (30) | | 4.6 (30) | Junction Oval | 9 May 1903 |- bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | | 8.7 (55) | | 6.9 (45) | SCG | 3 August 1903 The match between Geelong and Carlton, originally to have been played at