1931 VFL season

1931 VFL premiership season
Overview
Date2 May—10 October 1931
Teams12
PremiersGeelong
2nd premiership
Runners-upRichmond
6th runners-up result
Minor premiersGeelong
4th minor premiership
Brownlow MedallistHaydn Bunton Sr. (Fitzroy)
26 votes
Leading goalkicker medallistHarry Vallence (Carlton)
72 goals
Attendance
Matches played112
Total attendance1,785,275 (15,940 per match)
Highest (H&A)40,000 (round 4, Richmond v Collingwood)
Highest (finals)60,712 (grand final, Richmond v Geelong)
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The 1931 VFL season was the 35th 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 2 May to 10 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.

Geelong won the premiership, defeating Richmond by 20 points in the 1931 VFL grand final; it was Geelong's second VFL premiership. Geelong also won the minor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Fitzroy's Haydn Bunton Sr. won the Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Carlton's Harry Vallence won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.