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1958 VFL season

1958 VFL Premiership season
Teams 12
Premiers Collingwood
(13th premiership)
Minor premiers Melbourne
(6th minor premiership)
Consolation series St Kilda
(1st Consolation series win)
Matches played 112
Highest attendance 99,256
Coleman Medallist Ian Brewer (Collingwood)
Brownlow Medallist Neil Roberts (St Kilda)
1957
1959

The 1958 Victorian Football League season was the 62nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1958, 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 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1958 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.

The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.

Final: St Kilda 16.13 (109) defeated Carlton 15.11 (101)


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