| 1942 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
 Essendon Football Club, premier team | |
| Teams | 11 |
| Premiers | Essendon 7th premiership |
| Minor premiers | Essendon 7th minor premiership |
| Brownlow Medallist | Not awarded |
| Leading goalkicker medallist | Lindsay White (South Melbourne) |
| Matches played | 84 |
| Highest | 49,000 |
The 1942 VFL season was the 46th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.
Played during the peak of World War II, only eleven of the league's twelve clubs competed, with Geelong withdrawing due to travel restrictions. The season ran from 9 May until 19 September, and comprised a home-and-away season in which each club played either 14 or 15 games, followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Essendon Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeated Richmond by 53 points in the 1942 VFL Grand Final.