1932 VFL premiership season | |
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Overview | |
Date | 30 April—1 October 1932 |
Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 3rd premiership |
Runners-up | Carlton 6th runners-up result |
Minor premiers | Carlton 8th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Haydn Bunton Sr. (Fitzroy) 23 votes |
Leading goalkicker medallist | George Moloney (Geelong) 109 goals |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 112 |
Total attendance | 1,876,973 (16,759 per match) |
Highest (H&A) | 41,000 (round 13, South Melbourne v Carlton) |
Highest (finals) | 69,724 (grand final, Richmond v Carlton) |
The 1932 VFL season was the 36th 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 30 April to 1 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a four-week finals series featuring the top four clubs.
Richmond won the premiership, defeating Carlton by nine points in the 1932 VFL grand final; it was Richmond's third VFL premiership. Carlton 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 his second consecutive Brownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and Geelong's George Moloney won the leading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.