1959 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Melbourne 10th premiership |
Minor premiers | Melbourne 7th minor premiership |
Consolation series | Fitzroy 1st Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Verdun Howell (St Kilda) Bob Skilton (South Melbourne) |
Coleman Medallist | Ron Evans (Essendon) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 112 |
Total attendance | 2,711,649 (24,211 per match) |
Highest | 103,506 |
The 1959 VFL season was the 63rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 18 April until 26 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Melbourne Football Club for the tenth time, after it defeated Essendon by 37 points in the 1959 VFL Grand Final.