1974 VFL season
| 1974 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Richmond (9th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Richmond (7th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 138 |
| Attendance | 3,243,600 (23,504 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 113,839 |
| Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (North Melbourne) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Keith Greig (North Melbourne) |
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The 1974 Victorian Football League season was the 78th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1974, 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 1974 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "McIntyre Final Five system".
Richmond defeated North Melbourne 18.20 (128) to 13.9 (87), in front of a crowd of 113839 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
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