1926 VFL season

1926 VFL premiership season
Melbourne 1926 VFL premiership team
Overview
Date1 May—9 October 1926
Teams12
PremiersMelbourne
2nd premiership
Runners-upCollingwood
9th runners-up result
Minor premiersCollingwood
8th minor premiership
Brownlow MedallistIvor Warne-Smith (Melbourne)
9 votes
Leading goalkicker medallistGordon Coventry (Collingwood)
78 goals
Attendance
Matches played112
Total attendance1,966,841 (17,561 per match)
Highest (H&A)32,475 (round 15, Melbourne v Collingwood)
Highest (finals)59,632 (grand final, Collingwood v Melbourne)
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The 1926 VFL season was the 30th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 1 May to 9 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.

Melbourne won the premiership, defeating Collingwood by 57 points in the 1926 VFL grand final; it was Melbourne's second VFL premiership. Collingwood won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Melbourne's Ivor Warne-Smith won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Collingwood's Gordon Coventry won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.