|- style="background:#fff;" | | 16.16 (112) | | 2.11 (23) | Victoria Park | 30 August 1902 |- style="background:#fff;" | | 6.10 (46) | | 7.8 (50) | Brunswick Street Oval | 30 August 1902 |- style="background:#fff;" | | 10.9 (69) | | 5.5 (35) | MCG | 30 August 1902 Ladder Semi finals First Semi Final |- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Date | Attendance |- style="background:#fff;" | | 9.7 (61) | | 7.9 (51) | Princes Park | 6 September 1902 | 8,000 |- style="background:#fff;" Second Semi Final |- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Date | Attendance |- style="background:#fff;" | | 6.12 (48) | | 9.10 (64) | MCG | 6 September 1902 | 13,000 |- style="background:#fff;" Preliminary final |- style="background:#ccf;" | Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Date | Attendance |- style="background:#fff;" | | 4.10 (34) | | 6.9 (45) | MCG | 13 September 1902 | 26,000 |- style="background:#fff;" Grand final Collingwood defeated Essendon 9.6 (60) to 3.9 (27). (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). Awards The 1902 VFL Premiership team was Collingwood. The VFL's leading goalkicker in the home-and-away season was Charlie Baker of St Kilda with 30 goals; St Kilda kicked only 64 goals for the year, of which Baker kicked 46.9%, and Baker's proportion of his team's goals is a VFL/AFL record. Including finals, Ted Rowell of Collingwood scored the most goals with 33. Notable events The VFL instituted the amended Argus system to determine the season's premiers. St Kilda finished last without a win, their sixth consecutive wooden spoon, and seven games behind second-last Geelong, both VFL/AFL records. In each of Rounds 8 and 10, while champion Albert Thurgood was serving a three-match suspension for striking, one of his team-mates took the field each week under the nom de guerre "Goodthur"; the name was used (in quote marks) in all news reports of the matches. Football historians Michael Maplestone and Stephen Rogers, through a process of elimination, determined that Goodthur was most likely Fred Mann, and official statistics reflect this. Collingwood's Charlie Pannam becomes the first VFL player to play 100 VFL games (at the end of the 1902 season, he had played