1926 VFL season

1926 VFL Premiership season
Brownlow Medal winner Ivor Warne-Smith
Teams	12
Premiers	Melbourne (2nd premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (8th minor premiership)
Matches played	112
Highest attendance	50,662
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Gordon Coventry (Collingwood)
Brownlow Medallist	Ivor Warne-Smith (Melbourne)
← 1925 1927 →

The 1926 Victorian Football League season was the 30th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1926, the VFL competition consisted of twelve 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.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 17 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 6, and match 18 the "home-and-away reverse" of match 9.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1926 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

All of the 1926 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.

Melbourne defeated Collingwood 17.17 (119) to 9.8 (62), in front of a crowd of 59,362 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).