1947 VFA season

1947 VFA premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Port Melbourne (6th premiership)
Minor premiers	Port Melbourne (2nd minor premiership)
Matches played	136
Attendance	570,750 (4,197 per match)
← 1946 1948 →

The 1947 Victorian Football Association season was the 66th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Sandringham by 31 points in the Grand Final on 4 October. It was the sixth premiership in the club's history.

The home-and-home season was played over twenty-two matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.

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