| 1975 VFA Premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Division 1 | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers | Geelong West (1st premiership) |
| Minor premiers | Geelong West (1st minor premiership) |
| Division 2 | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers | Brunswick (1st D2 premiership) |
| Minor premiers | Brunswick (1st D2 minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 188 |
| Attendance | 880,914 (4,686 per match) [1] |
The 1975 Victorian Football Association season was the 94th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 15th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Geelong West Football Club, after it defeated Dandenong in the Grand Final on 21 September by 28 points; it was the first and only Division 1 premiership won by Geelong West in its time in the Association. The Division 2 premiership was won by Brunswick; it was Brunswick's first premiership in either division since 1938.
The Division 1 home-and-away season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. The finals were played at the St Kilda Cricket Ground.
| 1975 VFA Division 1 Ladder | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | Pct | PTS | ||
| 1 | Geelong West (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2125 | 1596 | 133.1 | 60 | |
| 2 | Port Melbourne | 18 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2209 | 1680 | 131.4 | 56 | |
| 3 | Dandenong | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1893 | 1690 | 112.0 | 48 | |
| 4 | Coburg | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 2051 | 1765 | 116.2 | 44 | |
| 5 | Preston | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1831 | 1930 | 94.8 | 32 | |
| 6 | Prahran | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1776 | 2070 | 85.7 | 32 | |
| 7 | Oakleigh | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1795 | 2003 | 89.6 | 28 | |
| 8 | Caulfield | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 1919 | 2213 | 86.7 | 24 | |
| 9 | Sandringham | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1758 | 1889 | 94.0 | 20 | |
| 10 | Williamstown | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1599 | 2120 | 75.4 | 16 | |
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points | Source [2] | |||||||||
| Semi Finals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 31 August | Dandenong 18.16 (124) | def. | Coburg 17.18 (120) | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 11,264) | [3] |
| Sunday, 7 September | Geelong West 16.17 (113) | def. | Port Melbourne 11.15 (81) | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 16,928) | [4] |
| Preliminary Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 14 September | Port Melbourne 16.13 (109) | def. by | Dandenong 17.11 (113) | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 17,827) | [5] |
| 1975 VFA Division 1 Grand Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 21 September | Geelong West | def. | Dandenong | St Kilda Cricket Ground (crowd: 27,582) | [6] |
| 7.4 (46) 10.5 (65) 15.12 (102) 18.13 (121) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 1.2 (8) 6.7 (43) 7.7 (49) 14.9 (93) | Umpires: Rex Wenn | ||
| Radojevic 4, Wells 3, Bright 2, Lynch 2, Stephens 2, Yates 2, Gilmore, Hughes, Woolfe | Goals | Briese 3, Miller 3, Payze 2, Castricum, Flaherty, Hibbert, Moran, Orchard, Shinners | |||
| Reports | Walker, for striking Hughes in the second quarter Walker, for striking Lynch in the second quarter Shinners, for striking Manson in the second quarter Melai, for misconduct against Manson in the second quarter | ||||
The Division 2 home-and-away season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.
| 1975 VFA Division 2 Ladder | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | Pct | PTS | ||
| 1 | Brunswick (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 2264 | 1565 | 144.6 | 60 | |
| 2 | Camberwell | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2134 | 1622 | 131.5 | 54 | |
| 3 | Sunshine | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 2155 | 1679 | 128.3 | 52 | |
| 4 | Frankston | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2088 | 1758 | 118.6 | 48 | |
| 5 | Northcote | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 2068 | 1991 | 101.8 | 48 | |
| 6 | Mordialloc | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 1752 | 1771 | 98.9 | 34 | |
| 7 | Yarraville | 18 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 1937 | 2166 | 89.4 | 28 | |
| 8 | Waverley | 18 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 2073 | 2180 | 95.0 | 24 | |
| 9 | Werribee | 18 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 1429 | 2475 | 57.7 | 8 | |
| 10 | Box Hill | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 1578 | 2229 | 70.7 | 4 | |
| Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points | Source [8] | |||||||||
| Semi Finals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 17 August | Sunshine 17.15 (117) | def. | Frankston 13.15 (93) | Toorak Park | [9] |
| Sunday, 24 August | Brunswick 24.31 (175) | def. | Camberwell 14.14 (98) | Toorak Park (crowd: 11,268) | [2] |
| Preliminary Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 31 August | Camberwell 15.12 (102) | def. | Sunshine 15.9 (99) | Toorak Park (crowd: 5,000) | [3] |
| 1975 VFA Division 2 Grand Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 7 September | Brunswick | def. | Camberwell | Toorak Park (crowd: 9,000) | [4] |
| 6.8 (44) 9.14 (68) 14.21 (105) 18.22 (130) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 1.3 (9) 5.4 (34) 9.7 (61) 12.11 (83) | Umpires: Rex Wenn | ||
| Baird 5, Brigham 2, O'Connor 2, Valentine 2, Warden 2, Laker, Nunn, Orton, Rowe, Woodham | Goals | Hammond 4, Stone 3, Kennedy 2, Andrews, Sauerberg, Simpson | |||
| Nunn (shoulder) | Injuries | ||||
For the first time since 1968, and the first time since its expulsion from the Australian National Football Council, the Association played an interleague representative match. [10] The match was played in Wangaratta against the Ovens and Murray Football League. The match was played during the lean half of a split-round in the Association fixture, and selection in the team was controversially limited to players from the twelve clubs which were idle that weekend – which automatically excluded 40% of Association players from eligibility. Colin Hobbs (Coburg) captained the team.
| 1975 Interleague Matches | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 15 June | O&M 24.23 (167) | def. | V.F.A. 17.9 (111) | City Oval, Wangaratta | [11] |
Dandenong Football Club was an Australian rules football club which played in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Based in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong, the Redlegs wore navy blue and red as their club colours.
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