1962 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Essendon 11th premiership |
Minor premiers | Essendon 11th minor premiership |
Consolation series | Richmond 1st Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Alistair Lord (Geelong) |
Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (Geelong) |
Matches played | 113 |
Highest | 99,203 |
The 1962 VFL season was the 66th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 21 April until 29 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 Essendon Football Club for the eleventh time, after it defeated Carlton by 32 points in the 1962 VFL Grand Final.