1975 VFL season
| 1975 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
North Melbourne (1st premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Hawthorn (4th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 138 |
| Attendance | 3,206,016 (23,232 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 77,770 (regular season) 110,551 (finals) |
| Coleman Medallist | Leigh Matthews (Hawthorn) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Gary Dempsey (Footscray) |
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The 1975 Victorian Football League season was the 79th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1975, 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 (except that rounds 14 and 15 were the reverse of 4 and 3 respectively).
Once the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1975 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "McIntyre Final Five system".
North Melbourne defeated Hawthorn 19.8 (122) to 9.13 (67), in front of a crowd of 110551 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).
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