1967 VFL premiership season
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
← 1966 1968 →

Premiership season

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.

Round 1

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Hawthorn 20.12 (132) South Melbourne 15.12 (102) Glenferrie Oval 18,294 15 April 1967 North Melbourne 8.14 (62) Melbourne 9.13 (67) Arden Street Oval 13,690 15 April 1967 St Kilda 22.13 (145) Footscray 9.10 (64) Moorabbin Oval 28,564 15 April 1967 Richmond 15.20 (110) Essendon 11.9 (75) MCG 56,387 15 April 1967 Geelong 13.13 (91) Collingwood 13.12 (90) Kardinia Park 35,151 15 April 1967 Fitzroy 5.6 (36) Carlton 18.22 (130) Princes Park 24,211 15 April 1967

Round 2

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Footscray 12.6 (78) Richmond 8.22 (70) Western Oval 19,286 22 April 1967 Essendon 7.11 (53) St Kilda 8.8 (56) Windy Hill 26,100 22 April 1967 Collingwood 16.17 (113) North Melbourne 7.8 (50) Victoria Park 23,576 22 April 1967 Carlton 12.16 (88) Hawthorn 6.8 (44) Princes Park 31,558 22 April 1967 Melbourne 9.8 (62) Geelong 14.11 (95) MCG 37,759 22 April 1967 South Melbourne 15.13 (103) Fitzroy 10.5 (65) Lake Oval 11,739 22 April 1967

Round 3

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Geelong 11.15 (81) Hawthorn 7.5 (47) Kardinia Park 17,227 29 April 1967 Footscray 6.5 (41) South Melbourne 11.13 (79) Western Oval 18,283 29 April 1967 Carlton 10.13 (73) North Melbourne 8.9 (57) Princes Park 19,041 29 April 1967 St Kilda 9.13 (67) Melbourne 10.9 (69) Moorabbin Oval 27,760 29 April 1967 Richmond 11.12 (78) Fitzroy 7.11 (53) MCG 20,938 29 April 1967 Essendon 8.6 (54) Collingwood 10.16 (76) Windy Hill 34,600 29 April 1967

Round 4

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date North Melbourne 10.8 (68) Richmond 11.22 (88) Arden Street Oval 12,750 6 May 1967 Hawthorn 10.6 (66) St Kilda 15.11 (101) Glenferrie Oval 20,352 6 May 1967 Fitzroy 9.10 (64) Geelong 22.13 (145) Princes Park 9,747 6 May 1967 Collingwood 13.17 (95) Footscray 5.7 (37) Victoria Park 21,855 6 May 1967 South Melbourne 18.19 (127) Essendon 13.10 (88) Lake Oval 18,756 6 May 1967 Melbourne 5.15 (45) Carlton 16.8 (104) MCG 48,513 6 May 1967

Round 5

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Footscray 12.11 (83) Melbourne 12.10 (82) Western Oval 15,818 13 May 1967 Fitzroy 9.6 (60) North Melbourne 13.13 (91) Princes Park 9,897 13 May 1967 Essendon 8.13 (61) Geelong 10.12 (72) Windy Hill 24,100 13 May 1967 Collingwood 13.25 (103) South Melbourne 7.15 (57) Victoria Park 33,714 13 May 1967 Richmond 16.22 (118) Hawthorn 5.13 (43) MCG 27,175 13 May 1967 St Kilda 11.9 (75) Carlton 11.14 (80) Moorabbin Oval 44,382 13 May 1967

Round 6

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Hawthorn 7.9 (51) North Melbourne 10.13 (73) Glenferrie Oval 10,136 20 May 1967 Geelong 16.12 (108) South Melbourne 13.11 (89) Kardinia Park 21,565 20 May 1967 Carlton 10.13 (73) Collingwood 9.13 (67) Princes Park 43,589 20 May 1967 St Kilda 9.4 (58) Richmond 14.15 (99) Moorabbin Oval 32,342 20 May 1967 Melbourne 13.15 (93) Fitzroy 7.9 (51) MCG 17,582 20 May 1967 Footscray 4.7 (31) Essendon 11.13 (79) Western Oval 21,278 20 May 1967

Round 7

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Fitzroy 9.12 (66) Hawthorn 16.14 (110) Princes Park 7,600 27 May 1967 Essendon 10.12 (72) Melbourne 6.10 (46) Windy Hill 17,684 27 May 1967 Collingwood 16.20 (116) St Kilda 14.14 (98) Victoria Park 31,877 27 May 1967 Richmond 18.11 (119) Geelong 12.9 (81) MCG 50,348 27 May 1967 North Melbourne 7.13 (55) Footscray 6.6 (42) Arden Street Oval 10,280 27 May 1967 South Melbourne 11.12 (78) Carlton 11.12 (78) Lake Oval 21,870 27 May 1967

Round 8

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Hawthorn 12.8 (80) Melbourne 18.17 (125) Glenferrie Oval 13,772 3 June 1967 Carlton 11.19 (85) Geelong 12.9 (81) Princes Park 30,481 3 June 1967 South Melbourne 20.18 (138) St Kilda 14.25 (109) Lake Oval 26,584 3 June 1967 Footscray 7.15 (57) Fitzroy 12.9 (81) Western Oval 11,727 3 June 1967 North Melbourne 12.16 (88) Essendon 13.10 (88) Arden Street Oval 16,120 3 June 1967 Richmond 13.5 (83) Collingwood 13.12 (90) MCG 71,946 3 June 1967

Round 9

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Essendon 21.16 (142) Hawthorn 6.15 (51) Windy Hill 13,277 10 June 1967 Collingwood 19.20 (134) Fitzroy 4.9 (33) Victoria Park 18,643 10 June 1967 St Kilda 9.17 (71) North Melbourne 8.13 (61) Moorabbin Oval 17,258 10 June 1967 Melbourne 19.14 (128) South Melbourne 12.17 (89) MCG 45,723 12 June 1967 Carlton 14.7 (91) Richmond 13.15 (93) Princes Park 37,384 12 June 1967 Geelong 15.12 (102) Footscray 9.8 (62) Kardinia Park 21,963 12 June 1967

Round 10

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date North Melbourne 16.11 (107) South Melbourne 14.7 (91) Arden Street Oval 11,967 24 June 1967 Collingwood 17.16 (118) Hawthorn 12.9 (81) Victoria Park 17,363 24 June 1967 Richmond 24.14 (158) Melbourne 12.9 (81) MCG 38,519 24 June 1967 St Kilda 18.14 (122) Geelong 10.10 (70) Moorabbin Oval 27,055 24 June 1967 Fitzroy 9.11 (65) Essendon 13.13 (91) Princes Park 12,076 24 June 1967 Footscray 7.12 (54) Carlton 11.4 (70) Western Oval 19,883 24 June 1967

Round 11

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Geelong 12.6 (78) North Melbourne 9.18 (72) Kardinia Park 14,415 1 July 1967 Fitzroy 9.9 (63) St Kilda 15.21 (111) Princes Park 9,851 1 July 1967 South Melbourne 8.9 (57) Richmond 14.25 (109) Lake Oval 15,520 1 July 1967 Hawthorn 8.11 (59) Footscray 14.12 (96) Glenferrie Oval 7,530 1 July 1967 Melbourne 9.11 (65) Collingwood 14.14 (98) MCG 30,848 1 July 1967 Essendon 9.16 (70) Carlton 12.7 (79) Windy Hill 23,906 1 July 1967

Round 12

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Essendon 13.15 (93) Richmond 10.12 (72) Windy Hill 24,600 8 July 1967 Collingwood 6.15 (51) Geelong 12.16 (88) Victoria Park 36,121 8 July 1967 South Melbourne 10.17 (77) Hawthorn 13.12 (90) Lake Oval 11,448 8 July 1967 Melbourne 8.7 (55) North Melbourne 5.22 (52) MCG 19,191 15 July 1967 Footscray 3.15 (33) St Kilda 11.12 (78) Western Oval 17,939 15 July 1967 Carlton 10.16 (76) Fitzroy 10.8 (68) Princes Park 16,370 15 July 1967

Round 13

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Geelong 13.12 (90) Melbourne 8.9 (57) Kardinia Park 18,780 22 July 1967 Fitzroy 19.21 (135) South Melbourne 12.10 (82) Princes Park 10,800 22 July 1967 Richmond 19.16 (130) Footscray 8.10 (58) MCG 20,827 22 July 1967 St Kilda 18.6 (114) Essendon 13.13 (91) Moorabbin Oval 31,972 22 July 1967 North Melbourne 9.8 (62) Collingwood 11.15 (81) Arden Street Oval 18,851 22 July 1967 Hawthorn 9.9 (63) Carlton 11.21 (87) Glenferrie Oval 17,552 22 July 1967

Round 14

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Melbourne 8.10 (58) St Kilda 12.19 (91) MCG 29,175 29 July 1967 Fitzroy 8.10 (58) Richmond 8.19 (67) Princes Park 13,864 29 July 1967 Collingwood 8.14 (62) Essendon 10.11 (71) Victoria Park 27,320 29 July 1967 Hawthorn 11.12 (78) Geelong 7.16 (58) Glenferrie Oval 12,087 29 July 1967 South Melbourne 10.11 (71) Footscray 5.10 (40) Lake Oval 8,635 29 July 1967 North Melbourne 8.9 (57) Carlton 6.8 (44) Arden Street Oval 14,582 29 July 1967

Round 15

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Essendon 14.15 (99) South Melbourne 7.16 (58) Windy Hill 15,800 5 August 1967 Carlton 7.10 (52) Melbourne 6.13 (49) Princes Park 20,138 5 August 1967 Richmond 14.21 (105) North Melbourne 13.7 (85) MCG 34,447 5 August 1967 St Kilda 17.17 (119) Hawthorn 8.8 (56) Moorabbin Oval 23,406 5 August 1967 Geelong 9.14 (68) Fitzroy 7.8 (50) Kardinia Park 16,443 5 August 1967 Footscray 14.9 (93) Collingwood 12.15 (87) Western Oval 16,867 5 August 1967

Round 16

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Hawthorn 7.12 (54) Richmond 23.30 (168) Glenferrie Oval 19,441 12 August 1967 Carlton 11.7 (73) St Kilda 9.8 (62) Princes Park 32,912 12 August 1967 Melbourne 7.12 (54) Footscray 7.9 (51) MCG 17,039 12 August 1967 North Melbourne 9.12 (66) Fitzroy 15.15 (105) Arden Street Oval 8,509 12 August 1967 Geelong 10.13 (73) Essendon 4.10 (34) Kardinia Park 25,956 12 August 1967 South Melbourne 5.6 (36) Collingwood 16.14 (110) Lake Oval 10,034 12 August 1967

Round 17

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Richmond 12.13 (85) St Kilda 7.11 (53) MCG 48,200 19 August 1967 Fitzroy 8.18 (66) Melbourne 9.8 (62) Princes Park 8,027 19 August 1967 Essendon 13.11 (89) Footscray 12.15 (87) Windy Hill 8,700 19 August 1967 North Melbourne 9.19 (73) Hawthorn 7.3 (45) Arden Street Oval 4,846 19 August 1967 South Melbourne 9.9 (63) Geelong 21.13 (139) Lake Oval 10,034 19 August 1967 Collingwood 12.13 (85) Carlton 8.12 (60) Victoria Park 34,784 19 August 1967

Round 18

Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Geelong 15.15 (105) Richmond 18.9 (117) Kardinia Park 34,616 26 August 1967 Footscray 7.11 (53) North Melbourne 8.7 (55) Western Oval 10,669 26 August 1967 Carlton 10.22 (82) South Melbourne 7.7 (49) Princes Park 15,609 26 August 1967 Hawthorn 13.13 (91) Fitzroy 10.14 (74) Glenferrie Oval 13,846 26 August 1967 Melbourne 8.12 (60) Essendon 7.14 (56) MCG 24,282 26 August 1967 St Kilda 14.16 (100) Collingwood 8.5 (53) Moorabbin Oval 28,862 26 August 1967

Ladder

1967 VFL ladder
Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	D	PF	PA	PP	Pts
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

Source: VFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Night Series Competition

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).

Finals series

Main article: 1967 VFL finals series

Week one


	First Semi-final
Saturday, 2 September (2:30 pm)	Geelong 16.12 (108)	def.	Collingwood 11.12 (78)	MCG (crowd: 91,715)	Report
Collingwood captain Des Tuddenham was reported for striking, found guilty and suspended for four matches. After slipping on the MCG's old practice-wicket area and copping a knee from Collingwood big man Ernie Hug^[1] in the first quarter, Sam Newman was taken by ambulance to St Vincent's Hospital for emergency treatment,^[2] which eventually resulted in him having a kidney removed.

Week two


	Second Semi-final
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

Richmond ruckman Neville Crowe was found guilty and suspended for four matches.

Preliminary Final


	Preliminary Final
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

Grand final

Main article: 1967 VFL Grand Final


	Grand final
Saturday, 23 September (2:30 pm)	Richmond 16.18 (114)	def.	Geelong 15.15 (105)	MCG (crowd: 109,396)	Report
Richmond won its sixth VFL premiership. Tom Hafey won his first Jock McHale Medal.

Awards

The 1967 VFL Premiership team was Richmond (its first since 1943).
The VFL's leading goalkicker was Doug Wade of Geelong who kicked 96 goals (including 17 goals in the final series).
The winner of the 1967 Brownlow Medal was Ross G. Smith of St Kilda with 24 votes.
Footscray took the "wooden spoon" in 1967.
The reserves premiership was won by North Melbourne. North Melbourne 15.13 (103) defeated Richmond 10.19 (79) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 September.^[3]

Notable events

As well as breaking a twenty-three year premiership drought, Richmond ended a twenty-year finals drought, making the finals for the first time since 1947.
Geelong beat Collingwood in Round 1 after a mark was awarded to Bill Ryan, at the top of the goal square just before the siren. As the siren sounded, without the umpires hearing it, the shot at goal was touched on the mark and went through for a behind. The umpire awarded another kick to Geelong for overstepping the mark, and this time Ryan kicked a goal to win by a point.
Former Carlton ruckman Graham Donaldson, now coaching in Morwell, Victoria, was also the manager of one of the district's State Savings Bank of Victoria (SSB) branches. He convinced the Bank's head office to sponsor a new competition involving children (under 12), representing their VFL club and playing in their club colours, to be played during the half-time break in the senior VFL game each Saturday. The SSB Mini League, which eventually evolved into the "Little League", conducted its first matches during the 1967 VFL season.
Fitzroy moved to Carlton's home ground, Princes Park, sharing the ground on alternate weeks.
Hawthorn, having instituted an exhaustive schedule of pre-season and regular in-season training developed by coach John Kennedy and former star centreman, now gymnasium owner, Brendan Edwards, as a consequence of them having undertaken this gruelling schedule in addition to their normal, on-going skills training, the Hawthorn players became known as "Kennedy's Commandos".
On Anzac Day, a representative match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between the Victorian team from the 1966 Hobart Carnival, and a team representing the rest of the league. The Carnival team wore Victoria's traditional Big V guernsey; the Rest team wore a red Guernsey with blue yoke and white collar. The Rest 18.13 (121) defeated the Carnival team 9.13 (67) in front of a crowd of 15,613.^[4]
In the Second Semi-Final between Richmond and Carlton Richmond's Neville Crowe and Carlton's John Nicholls were wrestling for the ball when Nicholls hit Crowe "in the guts", Crowe stepped back with the football grasped to his chest in his left hand and attempted to slap Nicholls with his open right hand. Crowe missed making any contact with Nicholls by about three inches. Nicholls immediately lifted his own left hand to his face, and pretended to have been badly affected, reeled away from Crowe. Despite Crowe's protests, he was reported for striking Nicholls. At the tribunal Crowe, received no assistance from Nicholls who was reluctant to admit that he was only acting. Crowe was suspended for four weeks; he missed the Grand Final, and never played VFL football again.
At the end of the season, Harry Beitzel's squad of players drawn mainly from the VFL, known as "The Galahs", played matches in Ireland, England, and the United States.