The 1882 Victorian football season was the 13th senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria.
won the Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership for the fourth time, making it the club's fourth VFA premiership in just five seasons, and the first in a sequence of three consecutive premierships won from 1882 to 1884.
was the premier club in the junior competition. This was disputed, as South Yarra did not play other leading junior clubs â including , , and â during the season.
Peter Pindar, a football writer at The Australasian, wrote that "it would be just as absurd to call a club the premier which had never met , , , and , as it would be to style one the premier junior which had not met Hotham United, Northcote, South Park, or the Star of Carlton". In a letter to The Herald, South Park secretary W.M. Roy said that he "fail[ed] to see that we are not entitled to claim the Junior Premiership of 1882".
was the premier club in the Ballarat District competition. During the season, merged with to form the "Ballarat City Imperial Football Club", although it retained the colours of Ballarat Imperial and is considered a continuation of Ballarat Imperial. By this season, more than 100 clubs were based around the Ballarat region.
The 1882 SFA season was the second season of the Sandhurst Football Association (SFA). was the premier club. , , and also competed. The SFA also played a representative match against on 24 May 1882 at the Upper Reserve.