1940 VFL season
| 1940 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Minor premiers |
Melbourne (2nd minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Highest attendance | 70,330 |
| Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Jack Titus (Richmond) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Des Fothergill (Collingwood) Herbie Matthews (South Melbourne) |
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The 1940 Victorian Football League season was the 44th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1940, 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 1940 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
Melbourne defeated Richmond 15.17 (107) to 10.8 (68), in front of a crowd of 69,061 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
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