1975 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | North Melbourne 1st premiership |
Minor premiers | Hawthorn 4th minor premiership |
Brownlow Medallist | Gary Dempsey (Footscray) |
Coleman Medallist | Leigh Matthews (Hawthorn) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 138 |
Total attendance | 3,206,016 (23,232 per match) |
Highest | 77,770 (regular season) 110,551 (finals) |
The 1975 VFL season was the 79th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 5 April until 27 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 North Melbourne Football Club, after it defeated Hawthorn by 55 points in the VFL Grand Final. It was North Melbourne's first premiership, making it the last of the league's twelve clubs to win a premiership.