1949 VFL season
| 1949 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Essendon (9th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
North Melbourne (1st minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 118 |
| Highest attendance | 88,718 |
| Leading Goalkicker Medallist | John Coleman (Essendon) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Ron Clegg (South Melbourne) Col Austen (Hawthorn) |
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The 1949 Victorian Football League season was the 53rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1949, 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 1949 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
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