1963 VFL season
| 1963 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Geelong (6th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Hawthorn (2nd minor premiership) |
| Consolation series |
Footscray (1st Consolation series win) |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Highest attendance | 101,209 |
| Coleman Medallist | John Peck (Hawthorn) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Bob Skilton (South Melbourne) |
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The 1963 Victorian Football League season was the 67th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1963, 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 1963 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
Persistent rain throughout the week and further heavy downpours on the Friday (12 July) caused the postponement of all Round 11 matches until the following Saturday (20 July). All remaining home-and-away and finals matches were played a week later than had been scheduled.
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: Footscray 10.9 (69) defeated Richmond 9.9 (63)
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