The 1886 Victorian football season was the 17th senior season of Australian rules football in the colony of Victoria.
won the Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership for the seventh time.
The 1886 VJFA season was the fourth season of the Victorian Junior Football Association (VJFA). won the premiership for the first time, beginning a sequence of five premierships won by the club between 1886 and 1890.
and were admitted into the VJFA on 27 May 1886.
was the premier club in the Ballarat District competition.