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1970 VFA season

1970 VFA Premiership season
Division 1
Teams 10
Premiers Prahran
(3rd premiership)
Minor premiers Prahran
(3rd minor premiership)
Division 2
Teams 10
Premiers Coburg
(1st D2 premiership)
Minor premiers Coburg
(1st D2 minor premiership)
1969
1971

The 1970 Victorian Football Association season was the 89th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the tenth season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Prahran Football Club, marking the club's third Division 1 premiership; it defeated Williamstown, which qualified for the Grand Final in its first season after promotion to Division 1, on 20 September by 50 points. The Division 2 premiership was won by Coburg, in its second season since being relegated from Division 1.

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 finals returned to the St Kilda Cricket Ground for the first time since 1966.


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.



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