1957 VFA season

1957 VFA premiership season
Teams	14
Premiers	Moorabbin (1st premiership)
Minor premiers	Williamstown (6th minor premiership)
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The 1957 Victorian Football Association season was the 76th season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Moorabbin Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne in the Grand Final on 5 October by forty points. It was Moorabbin's first VFA premiership, won in its seventh season of competition. For Port Melbourne, it was the last of eight consecutive Grand Final appearances between 1950 and 1957, of which only the 1953 premiership was won. Minor premiers Williamstown went through the home-and-home season undefeated, but lost both finals to finish third; it was the only premiership which the club did not win between 1954 and 1959.

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

The Association experimented with playing premiership matches at night during the 1957 season. Electric floodlighting had recently been installed at the South Melbourne Cricket Ground, and the Victorian Football League had run a successful post-season night premiership in 1956, so the Association secured the venue for its night premiership matches. Under the arrangement, the premier match of each round, as determined by the Association a couple of weeks in advance, was played at South Melbourne at 8pm on the Wednesday night prior to the main round. Thirteen of the fourteen clubs agreed to the arrangement, with only Preston dissenting. The first such match was held on 17 April, with Williamstown 12.10 (82) defeating Moorabbin 9.12 (66), and a large crowd of 14,000 saw Williamstown defeat Port Melbourne the following week.

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