| 1977 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers | North Melbourne 2nd premiership |
| Minor premiers | Collingwood 17th minor premiership |
| Night series | Hawthorn 1st Night series win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Graham Teasdale (South Melbourne) |
| Coleman Medallist | Peter Hudson (Hawthorn) |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 139 |
| Total attendance | 3,304,221 (23,771 per match) |
| Highest | 108,224 |
The 1977 VFL season was the 81st season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 2 April until 1 October, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.
The premiership was won by the North Melbourne Football Club for the second time, after it defeated Collingwood by 27 points in the 1977 VFL Grand Final replay.
Hawthorn defeated Carlton 14.11 (95) to 11.5 (71) in the final.
| (P) | Premiers |
| Qualified for finals |
| # | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Collingwood | 22 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2560 | 1959 | 130.7 | 72 |
| 2 | Hawthorn | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 2618 | 1959 | 133.6 | 68 |
| 3 | North Melbourne (P) | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2124 | 1803 | 117.8 | 60 |
| 4 | Richmond | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 2370 | 2085 | 113.7 | 58 |
| 5 | South Melbourne | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 2148 | 1942 | 110.6 | 54 |
| 6 | Carlton | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2081 | 1859 | 111.9 | 52 |
| 7 | Footscray | 22 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 2170 | 2141 | 101.4 | 42 |
| 8 | Geelong | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 1930 | 2333 | 82.7 | 32 |
| 9 | Essendon | 22 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 2085 | 2518 | 82.8 | 30 |
| 10 | Fitzroy | 22 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 2072 | 2474 | 83.8 | 24 |
| 11 | Melbourne | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 2117 | 2492 | 85.0 | 20 |
| 12 | St Kilda | 22 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 1966 | 2676 | 73.5 | 16 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 99.4
Source: AFL Tables
| Elimination final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2:30pm | Richmond | def. | South Melbourne | VFL Park (crowd: 63,663) | |
| 5.4 (34) 7.6 (48) 11.8 (74) 13.10 (88) | Q1 Q2 Q3 Final | 2.3 (15) 6.7 (43) 6.10 (46) 7.12 (54) | Umpires: Deller, Smith Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
| Edwards, Monteath, Cloke, Dunne 2 Malthouse, Noonan, Bartlett, Raines, Roberts 1 | Goals | 2 Lambert 1 Goss, Browning, Teasdale, Daniher, Morrison | |||
| Bourke, Cloke, Bartlett, Malthouse, Monteath, Sheedy, Edwards | Best | Round, McLeish, Browning, Morrison, Rantall, O'Neill, Teasdale | |||