| 1928 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Overview | |
| Date | 21 April – 29 September 1928 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers | Collingwood 7th premiership |
| Runners-up | Richmond 4th runners-up result |
| Minor premiers | Collingwood 10th minor premiership |
| Brownlow Medallist | Ivor Warne-Smith (Melbourne) 8 votes |
| Leading goalkicker medallist | Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) 78 goals |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Total attendance | 2,053,432 (18,334 per match) |
| Highest (H&A) | 41,402 (round 15, Melbourne v Carlton) |
| Highest (finals) | 66,381 (semi-final, Richmond v Carlton) |
The 1928 VFL season was the 32nd 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 21 April to 29 September, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
Collingwood won the premiership, defeating Richmond by 33 points in the 1928 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's second consecutive premiership and seventh VFL premiership overall. Collingwood also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Melbourne's Ivor Warne-Smith won his second Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Collingwood's Gordon Coventry won his third consecutive leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.
In 1928, 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 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1928 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collingwood (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1540 | 1144 | 134.6 | 60 |
| 2 | Richmond | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1640 | 1228 | 133.6 | 56 |
| 3 | Melbourne | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1507 | 1233 | 122.2 | 56 |
| 4 | Carlton | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1598 | 1316 | 121.4 | 44 |
| 5 | Essendon | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1441 | 1275 | 113.0 | 44 |
| 6 | St Kilda | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1499 | 1470 | 102.0 | 44 |
| 7 | Footscray | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1465 | 1340 | 109.3 | 36 |
| 8 | Fitzroy | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1480 | 1675 | 88.4 | 28 |
| 9 | Geelong | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1336 | 1343 | 99.5 | 24 |
| 10 | South Melbourne | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1461 | 1709 | 85.5 | 20 |
| 11 | North Melbourne | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1058 | 1563 | 67.7 | 20 |
| 12 | Hawthorn | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1171 | 1900 | 61.6 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 79.6
Source: AFL Tables
All of the 1928 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and preliminary final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the preliminary final.