1969 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 7th premiership |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 14th minor premiership |
Consolation series | Hawthorn 2nd Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Kevin Murray (Fitzroy) |
Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (Geelong) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 124 |
Total attendance | 2,923,016 (23,573 per match) |
Highest | 119,165 |
The 1969 VFL season was the 73rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 5 April until 27 September, and comprised a 20-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeated Carlton by 25 points in the 1969 VFL Grand Final.
In 1969, 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 20 rounds; rounds 12 to 20 were the "home-and-away reverse" of rounds 1 to 9.
Once the 20 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1969 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 | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2129 | 1651 | 129.0 | 60 |
2 | Carlton | 20 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 2260 | 1875 | 120.5 | 60 |
3 | Geelong | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 2092 | 1745 | 119.9 | 54 |
4 | Richmond (P) | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 2060 | 1653 | 124.6 | 52 |
5 | Hawthorn | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 2025 | 2050 | 98.8 | 52 |
6 | Essendon | 20 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 1941 | 1893 | 102.5 | 42 |
7 | St Kilda | 20 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 1803 | 1747 | 103.2 | 36 |
8 | North Melbourne | 20 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 1859 | 2125 | 87.5 | 32 |
9 | South Melbourne | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 1803 | 2186 | 82.5 | 28 |
10 | Fitzroy | 20 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 1745 | 2118 | 82.4 | 28 |
11 | Footscray | 20 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 1778 | 2079 | 85.5 | 24 |
12 | Melbourne | 20 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 1838 | 2211 | 83.1 | 12 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 97.2
Source: AFL Tables
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Geelong | 2.1 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 7.7 (49) |
Richmond | 8.3 | 14.7 | 20.11 | 25.17 (167) |
Attendance: 101,233 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
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Collingwood | 2.4 | 5.5 | 6.6 | 10.11 (71) |
Carlton | 1.4 | 5.8 | 11.10 | 16.11 (107) |
Attendance: 108,544 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
---|---|---|---|---|
Collingwood | 4.2 | 7.6 | 8.8 | 12.9 (81) |
Richmond | 3.2 | 6.12 | 13.14 | 15.17 (107) |
Attendance: 107,279 | ||||
Team | 1 Qtr | 2 Qtr | 3 Qtr | Final |
---|---|---|---|---|
Carlton | 1.4 | 2.7 | 8.10 | 8.12 (60) |
Richmond | 2.2 | 6.5 | 8.6 | 12.13 (85) |
Attendance: 119,165 | ||||
The consolation 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 home and away rounds.
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