1879 VFA season

1879 VFA season
Overview
Teams8
PremiersGeelong
2nd premiership
Leading goalkickerGeorge Coulthard
(Carlton − 21 goals)

The 1879 VFA season was the third season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), the highest-level Australian rules football competition in the colony of Victoria.

Geelong won the VFA premiership for the second time after completing a second consecutive unbeaten year. It was the club's second premiership in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1878 to 1880.