| Year: | 1943 |
| League: | VFL |
| Teams: | 4 |
| Count: | 1st |
| Matches: | 3 |
The 1943 VFL Lightning Premiership was an Australian rules football knockout competition played entirely on Saturday 24, July. It was played during a week's break of the Victorian Football Leagues's 1943 VFL season between rounds 11 and 12, with all games being played at Princes Park. The competition was played as a wartime charities fundraiser between the league's top four clubs. This was the third time a lightning premiership had been contested in the VFL. Approximately 11,000 people attended the three match competition. Essendon won the competition by 8 points, defeating Fitzroy in the final.
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"| Home team| Home team score| Away team| Away team score| Ground| Date|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| Fitzroy| 5.4 (34)| Hawthorn| 3.6 (24)| Princes Park| Saturday, 24 July|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| Essendon| 2.6 (18)| Richmond| 1.2 (8)| Princes Park| Saturday, 24 July
|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"| Home team| Home team score| Away team| Away team score| Ground| Date|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| Fitzroy| 3.3 (21)| Essendon| 4.5 (29)| Princes Park| Saturday, 24 July