The current VFL is not the VFA. Its a new competition that the AFL setup that included some former VFA teams. Changing competitions as we've been continuously informed means you're no longer the same club and can't claim its history from another competition. Sorry, Port Melbourne are now just a couple of years old and haven't won anything.The current VFL claims the history of the VFA, which began in 1877. Port Melbourne was founded in 1874 and joined the VFA in 1886. There are only two clubs that still play in the VFL that competed in the VFA when it was the top league in Victoria, and we are one of them.
The club has won 17 Flags, 15 of which were prior to competition restructures in 1995 and 2000. We were the first VFL club to cancel an alignment with an AFL club, and the first stand alone to win a premiership since the AFL reserves merged with the VFL, which prior to 2000 was in an alignment with what was then the TAC Cup.
The club has never left the VFA/VFL competition, and has completed every season apart from when the competition was in recess during WWI and WWII. We are also the only club never to play a season in Division 2 in the years it existed.
I don't know where you heard that Port are only as old as the current VFL set up, or that we binned our history to join a competition we've already been in for almost 120 years, but you are wrong.
The real Port Melbourne ceased to be when it was abandoned for this new one.