1917 VFL season

1917 VFL Premiership season
Teams	6
Premiers	Collingwood (4th premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (5th minor premiership)
Matches played	49
Highest attendance	28,512
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Dick Lee (Collingwood)
← 1916 1918 →

The 1917 Victorian Football League season was the 21st season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1917, the VFL competition consisted of six teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Each of the six teams played each other three times in a 15 match home-and-away season (Geelong, Richmond, and South Melbourne each hosting eight games, while Carlton, Collingwood, and Fitzroy each hosted seven).

Once the 15 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1917 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

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