1970 VFL season

1970 VFL premiership season
Teams12
PremiersCarlton
10th premiership
Minor premiersCollingwood
15th minor premiership
Consolation seriesFootscray
4th Consolation series win
Brownlow MedallistPeter Bedford (South Melbourne)
Coleman MedallistPeter Hudson (Hawthorn)
Attendance
Matches played136
Total attendance3,321,925 (24,426 per match)
Highest121,696
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The 1970 VFL season was the 74th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.

The season featured twelve clubs, and ran from 4 April until 26 September. It was the first season to play comprise a 22-game home-and-away season, which became the standard for the following fifty years, and which was followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The season saw the opening of the league's privately owned stadium, VFL Park, in Mulgrave.

The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the tenth time, after it defeated Collingwood by ten points in the 1970 VFL Grand Final. A crowd of 121,696 attended the match, the all-time record for the highest Australian rules football crowd.


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