1973 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 8th premiership |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 16th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Keith Greig (North Melbourne) |
Coleman Medallist | Peter McKenna (Collingwood) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 138 |
Total attendance | 3,338,648 (24,193 per match) |
Highest | 116,956 |
The 1973 VFL season was the 77th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 7 April until 29 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.
The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the eighth time, after it defeated Carlton by 30 points in the 1973 VFL Grand Final.