1966 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | St Kilda 1st premiership |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 13th minor premiership |
Consolation series | North Melbourne 2nd Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Ian Stewart (St Kilda) |
Coleman Medallist | Ted Fordham (Essendon) |
Matches played | 112 |
Highest | 102,055 |
The 1966 VFL season was the 70th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 23 April until 24 September, 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 St Kilda Football Club, after it defeated Collingwood by one point in the VFL Grand Final. It was St Kilda's first premiership, making it the last of the eight foundation clubs to win a premiership.
In 1966, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th 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 1966 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Collingwood | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1687 | 1073 | 157.2 | 60 |
2 | St Kilda (P) | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1641 | 1149 | 142.8 | 56 |
3 | Geelong | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1599 | 1162 | 137.6 | 56 |
4 | Essendon | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 1457 | 1204 | 121.0 | 56 |
5 | Richmond | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 1626 | 1320 | 123.2 | 54 |
6 | Carlton | 18 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 1233 | 1143 | 107.9 | 40 |
7 | North Melbourne | 18 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1294 | 1381 | 93.7 | 30 |
8 | South Melbourne | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1486 | 1505 | 98.7 | 28 |
9 | Hawthorn | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1224 | 1650 | 74.2 | 20 |
10 | Footscray | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1004 | 1458 | 68.9 | 16 |
11 | Melbourne | 18 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 1235 | 1580 | 78.2 | 12 |
12 | Fitzroy | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1004 | 1865 | 53.8 | 4 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 76.3
Source: AFL Tables
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Geelong | 3.4 | 3.5 | 7.9 | 12.14 (86) |
Essendon | 6.1 | 10.5 | 13.6 | 15.6 (96) |
Attendance: 93,765 | ||||
Second Semi-final | |||||
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10 September 2:30pm | Collingwood | def. | St Kilda | MCG (crowd: 95,614) | |
5.2 (32) 6.3 (39) 10.5 (65) 15.9 (99) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 0.1 (1) 6.5 (41) 10.9 (69) 13.11 (89) | Umpires: L. Perkins Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
Tuddenham 7 Searl, Wallis, Graham 2 Richardson, Price 1 | Goals | 3 Payze 2 Smith, Baldock, Neale 1 Mynott, Oakley, Cooper, Breen | |||
Waters, Tuddenham, Wallis, Potter, K. Rose, Patterson, Clark, Montgomery, W. Richardson | Best | Murray, Morrow, Cooper, Breen, Smith, Payze, Griffiths, Synman | |||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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St Kilda | 4.1 | 10.2 | 10.2 | 15.4 (94) |
Essendon [1] | 2.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 7.10 (52) |
Attendance: 93,453 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Collingwood | 2.1 | 5.7 | 7.11 | 10.13 (73) |
St Kilda | 2.5 | 5.6 | 8.9 | 10.14 (74) |
Attendance: 102,055 | ||||
The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.
Final: North Melbourne 20.12 (132) defeated Hawthorn 12.7 (79).
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