1972 VFL season
| 1972 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Carlton (11th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Carlton (12th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 139 |
| Attendance | 3,526,848 (25,373 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 112,393 |
| Coleman Medallist | Peter McKenna (Collingwood) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Len Thompson (Collingwood) |
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The 1972 Victorian Football League season was the 76th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1972, 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 1972 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the McIntyre "Final Five" system.
Carlton defeated Richmond 28.9 (177) to 22.18 (150), in front of a crowd of 112393 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
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