1964 VFA season
| 1964 VFA Premiership season | |
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| Division 1 | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Port Melbourne (8th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Williamstown (9th minor premiership) |
| Division 2 | |
| Teams | 8 |
| Premiers |
Geelong West (1st D2 premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Sunshine (1st D2 minor premiership) |
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The 1964 Victorian Football Association season was the 83rd season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the fourth season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Williamstown in the Grand Final on 26 September by 36 points; it was Port Melbourne's 8th VFA premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Geelong West, in only its second season in the VFA.
Less than a month before the 1964 season, the defending Division 1 premier club, Moorabbin, was suspended from the Association, in the aftermath of the Victorian Football League's St Kilda Football Club announcing its intention to move its playing and administrative base to Moorabbin Oval from 1965.
In the early 1960s, many Victorian Football League clubs were dissatisfied with their home grounds. In some cases, such as Hawthorn at Glenferrie Oval, the grounds were small and the surroundings prohibited expansion. In other cases, such as Fitzroy at Brunswick Street Oval, the local district cricket club, rather than the football club, had the controlling occupancy of the ground, leaving the football clubs with unsatisfactory lease arrangements and little control over how the ground was managed. Some Association grounds offered attractive solutions to the League clubs' problems: the grounds were often newer and larger than the older League grounds, they were not controlled by a strong traditional cricket club, and had the added benefit of being located in rapidly growing outer suburbs whence a League club could attract new fans.
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