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1964 VFL season

1964 VFL Premiership season
Teams 12
Premiers Melbourne
(12th premiership)
Minor premiers Melbourne
(9th minor premiership)
Consolation series Footscray
(3rd Consolation series win)
Matches played 112
Highest attendance 102,471
Coleman Medallist John Peck (Hawthorn)
Brownlow Medallist Gordon Collis (Carlton)
1963
1965

The 1964 Victorian Football League season was the 68th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

In 1964, 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 1964 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: Footscray 11.12 (78) defeated St Kilda 11.7 (73).


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