1940 VFA season

1940 VFA Premiership season
Teams 12
Premiers Port Melbourne
(4th premiership)
Minor premiers Williamstown
(2nd minor premiership)
1939
1941

The 1940 Victorian Football Association season was the 62nd season of the Australian rules football competition. The premiership was won by the Port Melbourne Football Club, which defeated Prahran by 47 points in the Grand Final on 5 October. It was Port Melbourne's first VFA premiership since 1922, and its fourth overall.

Premiership

World War II had commenced in Europe in September 1939, and the Association opted to proceed with a full premiership season.[1] The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the Page–McIntyre system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

1940 VFA Ladder
TEAM P W L D PF PA Pct PTS
1 Williamstown 20 16 4 0 2400 1768 135.4 64
2 Port Melbourne (P) 20 14 6 0 2368 1952 121.3 56
3 Prahran 20 14 6 0 2246 1919 117.0 56
4 Preston 20 14 6 0 2106 1959 107.5 56
5 Brunswick 20 13 7 0 2101 1772 118.6 52
6 Coburg 20 12 7 1 1965 1720 114.2 50
7 Northcote 20 9 10 1 1967 2032 96.8 38
8 Camberwell 20 7 13 0 2250 2319 97.0 28
9 Brighton 20 7 13 0 1980 2118 93.5 28
10 Yarraville 20 7 13 0 2019 2548 79.2 28
11 Oakleigh 20 5 15 0 1888 2391 79.0 20
12 Sandringham 20 1 19 0 1753 2545 68.9 4
Key: P = Played, W = Won, L = Lost, D = Drawn, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pct = Percentage; (P) = Premiers, PTS = Premiership points Source[2]

Finals

Semi Finals
Saturday, 14 September Prahran 16.26 (122) def. Preston 17.11 (110) Toorak Park (crowd: 8,000) [3]
Saturday, 21 September Williamstown 13.14 (92) def. by Port Melbourne 24.14 (158) Toorak Park (crowd: 12,000) [4]
Preliminary Final
Saturday, 30 September Williamstown 11.16 (88) def. by Prahran 15.21 (111) Toorak Park (crowd: 8,000) [5]
1940 VFA Grand Final
Saturday, 5 October Port Melbourne def. Prahran Melbourne Cricket Ground (Crowd: 30,882) [6]
4.8 (32)
11.12 (78)
17.18 (120)
23.22 (160)
Q1
Q2
Q3
Final
2.5 (17)
9.7 (61)
12.8 (80)
17.11 (113)
Umpires: Hayes
Freyer 12, Hurley 5, Robertson 4, Castles, Lahiff Goals Lyons 9, Hawkins 3, O'Donnell 2, White 2, Gravell

Awards

Notable events

External links

References

  1. "Association to coninue (sic)". The Argus (Melbourne). 13 June 1940. p. 14.
  2. 1 2 3 "Statistics – Association". The Argus (Melbourne). 9 September 1940. p. 9.
  3. 1 2 Percy Taylor (16 September 1940). "Exciting V.F.A. semi-final". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 11.
  4. Percy Taylor (23 September 1940). "Williamstown routed". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 11.
  5. Percy Taylor (30 September 1940). "Association – Prahran wins pre-final". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 9.
  6. 1 2 3 "Football – Pt. Melbourne premiers". The Argus (Melbourne). 7 October 1940. p. 9.
  7. "Todd for V.F.A. – will play today". The Argus (Melbourne). 20 April 1940. p. 1.
  8. "Record crowd sees Todd". The Argus (Melbourne). 22 April 1940. p. 1.
  9. Rover (22 April 1940). "62,000 at V.F.A opening". The Argus (Melbourne). p. 13.
  10. "Coburg's vital match". The Argus (Melbourne). 9 August 1940. p. 14.
  11. "Northcote to protest". The Argus (Melbourne). 10 June 1940. p. 11.
  12. "Brunswick determined". The Argus (Melbourne). 22 July 1940. p. 9.
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