1976 VFL season
| 1976 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Hawthorn (3rd premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Carlton (13th minor premiership) |
| Matches played | 138 |
| Attendance | 3,288,470 (23,829 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 110,143 |
| Coleman Medallist | Larry Donohue (Geelong) |
| Brownlow Medallist | Graham Moss (Essendon) |
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The 1976 Victorian Football League season was the 80th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
In 1976, 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 1976 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "McIntyre Final Five system".
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