1926 VFL premiership season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 1 May—9 October 1926 |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Melbourne 2nd premiership |
Runners-up | Collingwood 9th runners-up result |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 8th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Ivor Warne-Smith (Melbourne) 9 votes |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) 78 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 112 |
Total attendance | 1,966,841 (17,561 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 32,475 (round 15, Melbourne v Collingwood) |
Highest (finals) | 59,632 (grand final, Collingwood v Melbourne) |
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.