I recently asked if there were any rules and regulations requiring a certain number of VFL and AFL players in a selected VFL team.
Noone seemed to know the answer so I e-mailed the VFL.
This is the reply.
Noone seemed to know the answer so I e-mailed the VFL.
This is the reply.
Thank you for your query.
The VFL doesn’t have a rule which states how many VFL listed players must be selected in a VFL senior team each week.
On the basis that an AFL club has 38 Listed players and 6 Rookies (44 players) and 22 players are named in the AFL side each week, there are 22 remaining AFL players who are eligible to play in the VFL weekly. From these 22 AFL players remaining, exclude injured players, suspensions and players such as rookies who will play with the VFL reserves team, it is highly unlikely that 20 Richmond players would be in the Coburg senior team but as I mentioned before, there is no rule from preventing it if all players were available.
Last year we found, on average, that 12 VFL listed players and 10 AFL listed players played each week in the VFL senior sides.