1932 VFL season

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1932 VFL premiership season
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Richmond 1932 VFL premiership team
Overview
Date30 April – 1 October 1932
Teams12
Premiers Richmond
3rd premiership
Runners-up Carlton
6th runners-up result
Minor premiers Carlton
8th minor premiership
Brownlow Medallist Haydn Bunton Sr. (Fitzroy)
23 votes
Leading goalkicker medallist George Moloney (Geelong)
109 goals
Attendance
Matches played112
Total attendance1,876,973 (16,759 per match)
Highest (H&A)41,000 (round 13, South Melbourne v Carlton)
Highest (finals)69,724 (grand final, Richmond v Carlton)
  1931
1933  

The 1932 VFL season was the 36th 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 four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.

Contents

Richmond won the premiership, defeating Carlton by nine points in the 1932 VFL grand final; it was Richmond's third VFL premiership. Carlton won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Fitzroy's Haydn Bunton Sr. won his second consecutive Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Geelong's George Moloney won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.

Background

In 1932, 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 1932 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.

Home-and-away season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Ladder

(P)Premiers
Qualified for finals
#TeamPWLDPFPA%Pts
1 Carlton 18153018031308137.860
2 Richmond (P)18143115261096139.258
3 Collingwood 18144016441473111.656
4 South Melbourne 18135015311297118.052
5 Geelong 18116118251306139.746
6 Essendon 18108014881444103.040
7 Footscray 1899012291188103.536
8 North Melbourne 1881001535158197.132
9 Melbourne 1841401281167576.516
10 Fitzroy 1831501361178676.212
11 St Kilda 1831501263175372.012
12 Hawthorn 1831501034161364.112

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 81.1
Source: AFL Tables

Finals series

Semi-finals

Preliminary final

Grand final

Season notes

Awards

References

  1. "League seconds". The Argus. Melbourne. 3 October 1932. p. 13.

Sources