1930 VFL premiership season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 3 May—11 October 1930 |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Collingwood 9th premiership |
Runners-up | Geelong 2nd runners-up result |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 12th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Harry Collier (Collingwood) Allan Hopkins (Footscray) Stan Judkins (Richmond) 4 votes |
Leading goalkicker medallist | Gordon Coventry (Collingwood) 105 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 112 |
Total attendance | 1,876,678 (16,756 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 40,000 (round 10, Carlton v Collingwood) |
Highest (finals) | 47,985 (grand final, Collingwood v Geelong) |
The 1930 VFL season was the 34th 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 3 May to 11 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
Collingwood won the premiership, defeating Geelong by 30 points in the 1930 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's fourth consecutive premiership, the only time in the league's history that a club has won four consecutive premierships, and ninth VFL premiership overall. Collingwood also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Collingwood's Harry Collier, Footscray's Allan Hopkins and Richmond's Stan Judkins tied for the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest players, and Collingwood's Gordon Coventry won his fifth consecutive leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker, becoming the first player to win the award five times consecutively.