1974 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 9th premiership |
Minor premiers | Richmond 7th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Keith Greig (North Melbourne) |
Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (North Melbourne) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 138 |
Total attendance | 3,243,600 (23,504 per match) |
Highest | 113,839 |
The 1974 VFL season was the 78th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 6 April until 28 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.
The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the ninth time and second time consecutively, after it defeated North Melbourne by 41 points in the 1974 VFL Grand Final.