1927 VFL premiership season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 30 April—1 October 1927 |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Collingwood 6th premiership |
Runners-up | Richmond 3rd runners-up result |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 9th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Syd Coventry (Collingwood) 7 votes |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) 88 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 111 |
Total attendance | 1,862,068 (16,775 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 42,000 (round 6, Richmond v Carlton) |
Highest (finals) | 63,620 (semi-final, Richmond v Carlton) |
The 1927 VFL season was the 31st season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 30 April to 1 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a three-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
Collingwood won the premiership, defeating Richmond by twelve points in the 1927 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's sixth VFL premiership. Collingwood also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Collingwood's Syd Coventry won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and his brother and teammate Gordon Coventry won his second consecutive leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 17 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 6, and match 18 the "home-and-away reverse" of match 11.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1927 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Collingwood (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1559 | 1035 | 150.6 | 60 |
2 | Richmond | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1483 | 1102 | 134.6 | 56 |
3 | Geelong | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1594 | 1208 | 132.0 | 56 |
4 | Carlton | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1434 | 1178 | 121.7 | 52 |
5 | Melbourne | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1548 | 1169 | 132.4 | 48 |
6 | South Melbourne | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1373 | 1431 | 95.9 | 36 |
7 | St Kilda | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1178 | 1564 | 75.3 | 32 |
8 | Essendon | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 1198 | 1237 | 96.8 | 26 |
9 | Fitzroy | 18 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 1335 | 1558 | 85.7 | 26 |
10 | Footscray | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1131 | 1325 | 85.4 | 24 |
11 | North Melbourne | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1085 | 1476 | 73.5 | 12 |
12 | Hawthorn | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1087 | 1722 | 63.1 | 4 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 74.1
Source: AFL Tables
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