1931 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Geelong 2nd premiership |
Minor premiers | Geelong 4th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Haydn Bunton, Sr. (Fitzroy) |
Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Harry Vallence (Carlton) |
Matches played | 112 |
Highest | 60,712 |
The 1931 VFL season was the 35th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 2 May until 10 October, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Geelong Football Club for the second time, after it defeated Richmond by 20 points in the 1931 VFL Grand Final.
In 1931, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.
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 1931 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system. This was the first season to feature the new finals format, with the winner of the 2nd Semi Final going direct through to the Grand Final, and the loser through to a Preliminary Final against the winner of the 1st Semi Final. The league predominantly used variations of the Argus Challenge System over the previous thirty seasons. [1]
Round 6 was a split round, but the two-halves of the round were unusually played almost three weeks apart. Three matches played on King's Birthday Monday (8 June), and the other three matches played Saturday 27 June – the Saturday between Rounds 8 and 9. This means that six teams played their Round 7 and 8 matches before their Round 6 match. [2]
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Geelong (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1572 | 1038 | 151.4 | 60 |
2 | Richmond | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1627 | 1153 | 141.1 | 60 |
3 | Carlton | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1613 | 1289 | 125.1 | 48 |
4 | Collingwood | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1589 | 1281 | 124.0 | 48 |
5 | Footscray | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1161 | 1054 | 110.2 | 48 |
6 | Essendon | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1416 | 1428 | 99.2 | 40 |
7 | South Melbourne | 18 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1393 | 1406 | 99.1 | 36 |
8 | Melbourne | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1286 | 1403 | 91.7 | 32 |
9 | St Kilda | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1323 | 1484 | 89.2 | 32 |
10 | Fitzroy | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1380 | 1605 | 86.0 | 16 |
11 | Hawthorn | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1145 | 1395 | 82.1 | 12 |
12 | North Melbourne | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1000 | 1969 | 50.8 | 0 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 76.4
Source: AFL Tables
All of the 1931 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; however, in the Grand Final, the home team was the team that won the preliminary final.
1st Semi Final | |||||
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Saturday, 19 September | Carlton 20.10 (130) | def. | Collingwood 5.12 (42) | MCG (crowd: 51,140) | |
2nd Semi Final | |||||
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Saturday, 26 September | Geelong 10.6 (66) | def. by | Richmond 15.9 (99) | MCG (crowd: 48,353) | |
Preliminary final | |||||
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Saturday, 3 October | Geelong 11.17 (83) | def. | Carlton 11.11 (77) | MCG (crowd: 36,653) | |
Grand final | |||||
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Saturday, 10 October (2:50 pm) | Geelong 9.14 (68) | def. | Richmond 7.6 (48) | MCG (crowd: 60,712) | |
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