The 1922 MAFA season was the 27th season of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association (MAFA), an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria. The season began on 6 May and concluded on 26 August, comprising a home-and-away season, followed by a three-week finals series.
For the first time, clubs were split into two divisions − A Section and B Section. No promotion and relegation system was in place, with the top four teams from each division playing in a combined finals series.
won the MAFA premiership for the second time and the second year in a row, defeating Collegians in the 1922 MAFA Grand Final.
Association membership South Yarra left the MJFA following the end of the 1921 season. Old Brightonians, which had failed to win a single game in 1921, also withdrew prior to the start of the 1922 season.
Four new clubs − Black Rock, Elwood, Melbourne Shipping Company and Murrumbeena − entered the MJFA. Melbourne Shipping Company disbanded on 17 July 1922, and its remaining games were treated as walkovers.
Ladder A Section + Team Qualification 1 48 Finals series 2 Collegians 48 3 Old Scotch 44 4 Old Melburnians 28 5 Old Caulfield Grammarians 22 6 Old Trinity 18 7 Murrumbeena 14 8 Melbourne Swimming Club 0 1 2
B Section + Team Qualification 1 Hampton 52 Finals series 2 48 3 Elsternwick 36 4 Black Rock 28 5 Teachers College 28 6 Sandringham 20 7 Elwood 8 8 Melbourne Shipping Company (W) 4
Finals First semi-finals
Second semi-finals
Grand Final
Notable events An independent MAFA tribunal, as well as an Umpire's Association, were established in 1922.
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