1967 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Richmond 6th premiership |
Minor premiers | Richmond 6th minor premiership |
Consolation series | Footscray 3rd Consolation series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Ross Smith (St Kilda) |
Coleman Medallist | Doug Wade (Geelong) |
Matches played | 112 |
Highest | 109,396 |
The 1967 VFL season was the 71st season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 15 April until 23 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 Richmond Football Club for the sixth time, after it defeated Geelong by nine points in the 1967 VFL Grand Final.
In 1967, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.
Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.
Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1967 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
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1 | Richmond (P) | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1869 | 1281 | 145.9 | 60 | Finals |
2 | Carlton | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1425 | 1133 | 125.8 | 58 | |
3 | Geelong | 18 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1625 | 1323 | 122.8 | 52 | |
4 | Collingwood | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1629 | 1232 | 132.2 | 48 | |
5 | St Kilda | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 1630 | 1328 | 122.7 | 44 | |
6 | Essendon | 18 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 1406 | 1327 | 106.0 | 34 | |
7 | Melbourne | 18 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 1258 | 1417 | 88.8 | 32 | |
8 | North Melbourne | 18 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1234 | 1310 | 94.2 | 30 | |
9 | South Melbourne | 18 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 1446 | 1763 | 82.0 | 22 | |
10 | Hawthorn | 18 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1241 | 1766 | 70.3 | 20 | |
11 | Fitzroy | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1193 | 1655 | 72.1 | 16 | |
12 | Footscray | 18 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1060 | 1481 | 71.6 | 16 |
The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.
Final: Footscray 15.11 (101) defeated South Melbourne 8.8 (56).
Main article: 1967 VFL finals series |
First Semi-final | |||||
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Saturday, 2 September (2:30 pm) | Geelong 16.12 (108) | def. | Collingwood 11.12 (78) | MCG (crowd: 91,715) | Report |
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Second Semi-final | |||||
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Saturday, 9 September 2:30pm | Richmond | def. | Carlton | MCG (crowd: 99,051) | |
5.8 (38) 10.13 (73) 14.16 (100) 20.21 (141) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
3.4 (22) 7.9 (51) 11.12 (78) 14.17 (101) |
Umpires: Sheales Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
Hart 6 Brown, Patterson 3 B. Richardson, Northey, Guinane 2 Barrot, Bartlett 1 |
Goals | 3 Munari, Nicholls 2 Kekovich, Barassi, Jesaulenko 1 Silvagni, Gallagher | |||
Barrot, Hart, Clay, Dean, Guinane, Burgin | Best | Nicholls, Goold, Munari, Barassi, Silvagni, Gallagher | |||
Crowe for striking Nicholls | Reports | ||||
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Preliminary Final | |||||
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Saturday, 16 September 2:30pm | Geelong | def. | Carlton | MCG (crowd: 95,542) | |
1.0 (6) 6.2 (38) 14.3 (87) 17.6 (108) |
Q1 Q2 Q3 Final |
5.2 (32) 10.5 (65) 11.7 (73) 11.13 (79) |
Umpires: Sheales Television broadcast: Seven Network | ||
Wade 5 Sharrock 4 Ryan, Mitchell, Andrews 2 Polinelli, Newland 1 |
Goals | 3 Gallagher 2 Jesaulenko 1 Collins, Stone, Nicholls, Barassi, Robertson, Auchettl | |||
Sharrock, Goggin, Farmer, Polinelli, Ryan, Closter, Mitchell, Walker | Best | Nicholls, Barassi, Collis, Hall, Gill, Goold, Gallagher, Collins | |||
Main article: 1967 VFL Grand Final |
Grand final | |||||
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Saturday, 23 September (2:30 pm) | Richmond 16.18 (114) | def. | Geelong 15.15 (105) | MCG (crowd: 109,396) | Report |
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