2004 VFL season explained

The 2004 Victorian Football League season was the 123rd season of the Australian rules football competition.

The premiership was won by the Sandringham Football Club, after defeating Port Melbourne by four points in the Grand Final on 19 September.

Ladder

The Jim 'Frosty' Miller Medal was won for the sixth consecutive year by Nick Sautner (Sandringham), who kicked 60 goals.^[1]
The J. J. Liston Trophy was won by Julian Field (North Ballarat), who polled 16 votes. Field finished ahead of Adam Fisher (Sandringham), who was second with 13 votes, and Jeremy Clayton (Port Melbourne), Daniel Harford (Northern Bullants) and Trent Bartlett (Tasmania), who were equal-third with 11 votes.^[2]
The Fothergill–Round Medal was won by Adam Fisher (Sandringham).^[3]
Port Melbourne won the reserves premiership. Port Melbourne 19.13 (127) defeated Williamstown 8.15 (63) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Seniors Grand Final on 19 September.^[4]

Early in the preseason, announced its intention to terminate its affiliation with the Northern Bullants after one season, intending to resume fielding its own reserves team in the VFL.^[5] However, after a couple of months of uncertainty, the clubs revived their affiliation, with Carlton assuming greater control over the Bullants' operation and installing a Carlton assistant coach, Barry Mitchell, as Bullants senior coach.^[6]

Web site: Frosty Miller Medallists. 4 August 2016. Fox Sports Pulse. 25 May 2016.
Web site: 2004 Medallists across Australia. 4 August 2016. Footystats Diary.
Web site: Fothergill–Round Medallists. 20 December 2014. 29 October 2014. Sportingpulse.
News: Herald Sun. Melbourne, VIC. 67. 20 September 2004. Sports details.
News: The Age. Melbourne, VIC. Blues in trouble for stomping on Bullants. Caroline Wilson. 29 August 2003. 31 July 2016.
Web site: 2004 review. 31 July 2016. Footystats. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233302/http://footystats.freeservers.com/Special/2004review.html. 3 March 2016. dead. dmy-all.