Notable Events
- On 21 May 1898, playing against St Kilda Football Club, Geelong's Firth McCallum eluded 12 opponents to score a goal.
- A VFL representative team played two matches against a combined Ballarat Football League team. The VFL won their home match, and lost their away match.
- Essendon player Corrie Gardner, who also played for Melbourne Football Club from 1900 to 1903 and in 1905, and who represented Australia in the hurdles and the long jump at the 1904 Summer Olympics at St. Louis, Missouri in the USA, won the Australian Amateur Athletics hurdle championship in 1898.
- At the end of the home-and away season, Essendon had a VFL record percentage of 202.2%.
- 1898 was the first VFL season that the premiership had been decided in a "challenge" match.
- Two sets of brothers played for Fitzroy in the 1898 "Grand Final Match": Bill Dalton and Jack Dalton; and Jim Grace and Mick Grace.
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