[1] In its final season in 1999, the competition was made up of the reserves teams of all the senior AFL clubs that were based in Victoria, plus that of the Sydney Swans.

[2] Since 2000, the Victorian Football League (VFL), formerly known as the Victorian Football Association (VFA), has operated as a hybrid second-tier senior competition and reserves competition for most of the AFL clubs.

[3] The league was intended to bring a junior club affiliated with each of the Victorian Football League (VFL) senior clubs into a single competition, and to adopt the same district eligibility scheme which the VFL had introduced in 1916.

The club left the competition at the end of the season, and were replaced by Essendon Juniors.

This changed over the following decades, with all of the seconds teams gradually being subsumed by their senior counterparts.

Shane Warne, considered to be one of the greatest bowlers in the history of cricket, played a single game for St Kilda in 1988: he was erroneously listed in the Record as Trevor Warne, and played in the Under-19s for the remainder of the season.

[20] Former St Kilda number one ticket holder John Moran also played for the reserves side.