1947 VFL season
| 1947 VFL Premiership season | |
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Bert Deacon
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Carlton (8th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Carlton (11th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 118 |
| Highest attendance | 85,793 |
| Leading Goalkicker Medallist | Fred Fanning (Melbourne) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Bert Deacon (Carlton) |
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The 1947 Victorian Football League season was the 51st season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1947, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th 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 19 rounds; matches 12 to 19 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 8.
Once the 19 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1947 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
Carlton defeated Essendon 13.8 (86) to 11.19 (85) in front of a crowd of 85,793 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
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