1961 VFL season
| 1961 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Hawthorn (1st premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Hawthorn (1st minor premiership) |
| Consolation series |
Geelong (1st Consolation series win) |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Highest attendance | 107,935 |
| Coleman Medallist | Tom Carroll (Carlton) |
| Brownlow Medallist | John James (Carlton) |
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The 1961 Victorian Football League season was the 65th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1961, 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 1961 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: Geelong 9.20 (74) defeated North Melbourne 9.8 (62)
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