1939 VFA season

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1939 VFA premiership season
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Williamstown FC team, premier
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Premiers Williamstown
3rd premiership
Minor premiers Prahran
2nd minor premiership
  1938
1940  

The 1939 Victorian Football Association season was the 61st season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, which came from fourth on the ladder to defeat Prahran by nine points in the Grand Final on 7 October. It was the club's third VFA premiership, and it was a strong revival after having won the wooden spoon in 1938.

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Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, a large increase from 1938 when sixteen matches were played, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season. This pushed the end of the season into October, the weekend after the Victorian Football League Grand Final. It became standard for the VFA Grand Final to be scheduled for the weekend after the VFL Grand Final until 1963.

Ladder

1939 VFA ladder
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1 Prahran 20155024271849131.360
2 Brunswick 20155022631751129.260
3 Northcote 20146019181549123.856
4 Williamstown (P)20146021731773122.556
5 Camberwell 20137023612045115.552
6 Brighton 20119020871987105.044
7 Coburg 201010020841958106.440
8 Preston 2091101810185497.636
9 Yarraville 2071301888246276.728
10 Sandringham 2061401995213193.624
11 Port Melbourne 2051501715229374.820
12 Oakleigh 2011901728279761.84
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership pointsSource [1]

Finals

Semifinals
Saturday, 16 September Northcote 10.14 (74)def. by Williamstown 11.14 (80) Toorak Park (crowd: 11,000) [2]
Saturday, 23 September Prahran 16.13 (109)def. by Brunswick 16.17 (113) Toorak Park (crowd: 10,000) [3]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 30 September Prahran 16.18 (114)def. by Williamstown 17.19 (121) Toorak Park (crowd: 14,000) [4]

Grand Final

1939 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 7 October Brunswick def. by Williamstown Melbourne Cricket Ground (crowd: 47,098) [5]
4.5 (29)
8.7 (55)
11.11 (77)
 14.11 (95)
Q1
Q2
Q3
 Final
3.2 (20)
4.9 (33)
12.15 (87)
 14.20 (104)
Crawford 4, McInnes 4, Jones 3, Dowling, McGrath, McKay Goals Vallence 5, Jamieson 2, Paterson 2, Thomas 2, McTaggart, Menzies, Quinn

Awards

Notable events

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