1927 VFL season

1927 VFL Premiership season
Brownlow Medal winner Syd Coventry
Teams	12
Premiers	Collingwood (6th premiership)
Minor premiers	Collingwood (9th minor premiership)
Matches played	111
Highest attendance	63,620
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Gordon Coventry (Collingwood)
Brownlow Medallist	Syd Coventry (Collingwood)
← 1926 1928 →

The 1927 Victorian Football League season was the 31st season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1927, 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-away reverse" of matches 1 to 6, and match 18 the "home-and-away reverse" of match 11.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1927 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended "Argus system".

All of the 1927 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.

Collingwood defeated Richmond 2.13 (25) to 1.7 (13), in front of a crowd of 34,511 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).