1965 VFA season
| 1965 VFA Premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Division 1 | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Waverley (1st premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Dandenong (1st minor premiership) |
| Division 2 | |
| Teams | 9 |
| Premiers |
Preston (2nd D2 premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Preston (2nd D2 minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 170 |
| Attendance | 432,000 (2,541 per match) |
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The 1965 Victorian Football Association season was the 84th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the fifth season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Waverley Football Club, after it defeated Port Melbourne in the Grand Final on 26 September by twelve points; it was the first and only premiership ever won by Waverley in either division in its time in the Association, and it came in only its second season in Division 1. The Division 2 premiership was won by Preston; it was the club's second Division 2 premiership in three years, having competed in and been relegated from Division 1 in the intervening year.
In the early 1960s, several Victorian Football League clubs were interested in leaving their traditional home grounds, and many were looking at Association grounds as possible new homes. The first successful move occurred in 1964, when League club St Kilda brokered a deal with the Moorabbin Council to move its playing and training base to the Moorabbin Football Club's home ground, Moorabbin Oval; it had sought a new ground which it could manage free from the direction of a district cricket club and in a growing suburb whence it could attract new fans. The move was a success for St Kilda, but resulted in Moorabbin being suspended from the Association.
St Kilda's success motivated other League clubs to seek new grounds, and in 1965 there were two plays by League clubs for Association grounds: North Melbourne moved to Coburg Oval, a move which ultimately lasted less than one year, but nearly cost Coburg its place in the Association; and, Footscray attempted unsuccessfully to move to Skinner Reserve, Sunshine's newly developed ground.
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