1966 VFA season
| 1966 VFA Premiership season | |
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| Division 1 | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Port Melbourne (9th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Port Melbourne (8th minor premiership) |
| Division 2 | |
| Teams | 10 |
| Premiers |
Prahran (1st D2 premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Northcote (2nd D2 minor premiership) |
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The 1966 Victorian Football Association season was the 85th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the sixth season of its second division. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Waverley in the Grand Final on 25 September by 43 points; it was Port Melbourne's ninth premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Prahran.
In July 1965, the Frankston Football Club was admitted to Division 2 of the Association for the 1966 season. The Association had been in favour of admitting Frankston for 1965, but the club failed to get a clearance from the Mornington Peninsula Football League. It was not until its third appeal for a clearance that the MPFL allowed Frankston to transfer.
Frankston's admission brought the Association to a then-record twenty clubs. It was the end of a ten-year expansion plan which the Association had first announced in 1956 to increase the size of the competition from fourteen clubs to twenty. It was the last change to the Association membership until 1982.
The following ground changes occurred in 1966:
The Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system.
The Division 2 home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system. All finals were played on Sundays at Toorak Park.
The Association contested the 1966 Hobart Carnival during June. The team was coached by Perc Bushby (Coburg) and was captained by Keith Burns (Brunswick). The Association had a poor tournament, finishing last and losing all four matches by large margins; and, no Association players were selected in the All-Australian team.
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