1969 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 7th premiership |
Minor premiers | Collingwood 14th minor premiership |
Consolation series | Hawthorn 2nd Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Kevin Murray (Fitzroy) |
Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (Geelong) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 124 |
Total attendance | 2,923,016 (23,573 per match) |
Highest | 119,165 |
The 1969 VFL season was the 73rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 5 April until 27 September, and comprised a 20-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.
The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeated Carlton by 25 points in the 1969 VFL Grand Final.