1920 VFL season

1920 VFL Premiership season
Teams	9
Premiers	Richmond (1st premiership)
Minor premiers	Richmond (1st minor premiership)
Matches played	76
Highest attendance	62,220
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	George Bayliss (Richmond)
← 1919 1921 →

The 1920 Victorian Football League season was the 24th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1920, the VFL competition consisted of nine 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 team played each other twice in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds (i.e., 16 matches and 2 byes).

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1920 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

All of the 1920 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the Semi Finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

Richmond defeated Collingwood 7.10 (52) to 5.5 (35), in front of a crowd of 53,908 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

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