1969 VFL season
| 1969 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Richmond (7th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Collingwood (14th minor premiership) |
| Consolation series |
Hawthorn (2nd Consolation series win) |
| Matches played | 124 |
| Attendance | 2,923,016 (23,573 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 119,165 |
| Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (Geelong) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Kevin Murray (Fitzroy) |
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The 1969 Victorian Football League season was the 73rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1969, 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 20 rounds; rounds 12 to 20 were the "home-and-away reverse" of rounds 1 to 11.
Once the 20 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1969 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page-McIntyre System.
The consolation 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 home and away rounds.
Final: Hawthorn 10.17 (77) defeated Melbourne 9.18 (72).
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