The calendar season also saw the commencement of the Dockerty Cup, in which Carlton United defeated St Kilda 2–1,[2] making United first club in the state's history to achieve both respective accolades in the same season.
[6] In the following season of 1910, a club named South Melbourne that would later be renamed to Albert Park (and later Glenroy), competed from 1910 through to 1934.
[9] When a second division was established in 1910, a team under the name of Albert Park competed but lasted only a solitary season.
While Carlton United, Fitzroy, Melbourne United, St Kilda and Williamstown all eventually folded, Prahran amalgamated with Brighton prior to the 1988 season, where the club's senior male squad presently competes in the Victorian State League Division 3, the sixth tier of Victorian soccer.
The first ever competitive league match recognized by Football Victoria took place on 8 May 1909 at the Gardens Reserve in Williamstown.