1965 VFL season
| 1965 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Essendon (12th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
St Kilda (1st minor premiership) |
| Consolation series |
North Melbourne (1st Consolation series win) |
| Matches played | 112 |
| Highest attendance | 104,846 |
| Coleman Medallist | John Peck (Hawthorn) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Noel Teasdale (North Melbourne) |
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The 1965 Victorian Football League season was the 69th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1965, 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 1965 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
North Melbourne Football Club moved its playing and training base from the Arden Street Oval to Coburg City Oval. The move was intended to be permanent, with some initial negotiations seeking long-term leases for up to 40 years, but it was ultimately cancelled after only eight months, and North Melbourne returned to the Arden Street Oval in 1966.
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: North Melbourne 14.13 (97) defeated Carlton 9.3 (57).
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