1939 VFL season

1939 VFL Premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Melbourne (3rd premiership)
Minor premiers	Melbourne (1st minor premiership)
Matches played	112
Highest attendance	78,110
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	Ron Todd (Collingwood)
Brownlow Medallist	Marcus Whelan (Collingwood)
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The 1939 Victorian Football League season was the 43rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1939, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus one substitute player, known as the 19th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1939 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.

Melbourne defeated Collingwood 21.22 (148) to 14.11 (95), in front of a crowd of 78,110 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

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