1940 VFL grand final explained

Year:1940
Competition:VFL
Home:
Home Score:15.17 (107)
Away:
Away Score:10.8 (68)
Home Abbr:MEL
Away Abbr:RIC
Home Qtr1:4.8 (32)
Home Qtr2:10.11 (71)
Home Qtr3:13.15 (93)
Home Qtr4:15.17 (107)
Away Qtr1:3.0 (18)
Away Qtr2:4.2 (26)
Away Qtr3:5.4 (34)
Away Qtr4:10.8 (68)
Date:28 September 1940
Attendance:70,330
Stadium:Melbourne Cricket Ground
Last:1939
Next:1941

The 1940 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 28 September 1940. It was the 42nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1940 VFL season. The match, attended by 70,330 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 39 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory.

This was Melbourne's second successive premiership, having defeated Collingwood in the 1939 VFL Grand Final.

Teams

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Statistics

Goalkickers

Melbourne:
  • N Smith 7
  • R Baggott 2
  • P Beames 2
  • J O'Keefe 2
  • F Fanning 1
  • K Truscott 1
Richmond:
  • D Harris 5
  • J Titus 3
  • R Bawden 1
  • J Crane 1

References

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