1971 VFL season
| 1971 VFL Premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Hawthorn (2nd premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Hawthorn (3rd minor premiership) |
| Consolation series |
Melbourne (1st Consolation series win) |
| Matches played | 136 |
| Attendance | 3,326,436 (24,459 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 118,192 |
| Coleman Medallist | Peter Hudson (Hawthorn) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Ian Stewart (Richmond) |
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The 1971 Victorian Football League season was the 75th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1971, 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 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 11.
Once the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1971 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: Melbourne 12.7 (79) defeated Fitzroy 9.9 (63).
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