1952 VFL season

1952 VFL Premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Geelong (5th premiership)
Minor premiers	Geelong (7th minor premiership)
Matches played	118
Highest attendance	82,890
Leading Goalkicker Medallist	John Coleman (Essendon)
Brownlow Medallist	Bill Hutchison (Essendon) Roy Wright (Richmond)
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The 1952 Victorian Football League season was the 56th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1952, 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.

There was an extra round (round 8), in addition to 1951's 18 rounds, promoted as a "National Day Round", and held on the Saturday (14 June) of the Queen's Birthday weekend while the Victorian State side played against the West Australian State side at Melbourne Cricket Ground (also on 14 June).

The season was constructed as follows: in matches 1 to 7 and 9 to 12 the teams played each other. Round 8, the "National Day Round", was the reverse of round 11 (and the designated round 8 "home team" was the reverse of that in round 11). Rounds 13 to 19 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 19 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1952 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.

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