Why would we include them in VFL/AFL records? They won't. It is where the football seasons of the clubs that formed this league came from but this league is in it's 123rd season. The 27 seasons before it are just that, before it.eddie mcguire is right that if vfa 1870 to 1896 in included into the vfl/afl records, it would completely erase the vfa history from 1897 to 1995 off the history books
The VFA history of 1897 and afterwards essentially was the next best club comp in Victoria. That history is important too just like SAFA, WAFL and Tasmanian football was as other clubs played in are also historic for the game as competitions that run for over a century each.