The1967 VFL season was the 71st season of theVictorian Football League (VFL), the highest level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 15 April until 23 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs.

The premiership was won by theRichmond Football Club for the sixth time, after it defeatedGeelong by nine points in the1967 VFL Grand Final.

In 1967, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the19th man and the20th man. A player could be substituted for any reason; however, once substituted, a player could not return to the field of play under any circumstances.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1967 VFLPremiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of thePage–McIntyre system.

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 78.8
Source:AFL Tables

The night series were held under the floodlights at Lake Oval,South Melbourne, for the teams (5th to 12th on ladder) out of the finals at the end of the season.

Final:Footscray 15.11 (101) defeatedSouth Melbourne 8.8 (56).

• As well as breaking a twenty-three year premiership drought,Richmond ended a twenty-year finals drought, making the finals for the first time since1947.
• Geelong beatCollingwood in Round 1 after a mark was awarded toBill Ryan, at the top of the goal square just before the siren. As the siren sounded, without the umpires hearing it, the shot at goal was touched on the mark and went through for a behind. The umpire awarded another kick to Geelong for overstepping the mark, and this time Ryan kicked a goal to win by a point.
• FormerCarlton ruckmanGraham Donaldson, now coaching inMorwell, Victoria, was also the manager of one of the district'sState Savings Bank of Victoria (SSB) branches. He convinced the Bank's head office to sponsor a new competition involving children (under 12), representing their VFL club and playing in their club colours, to be played during the half-time break in the senior VFL game each Saturday. TheSSB Mini League, which eventually evolved into the "Little League", conducted its first matches during the 1967 VFL season.
• Fitzroy moved toCarlton's home ground,Princes Park, sharing the ground on alternate weeks.
• Hawthorn, having instituted an exhaustive schedule of pre-season and regular in-season training developed by coachJohn Kennedy and former star centreman, now gymnasium owner,Brendan Edwards, as a consequence of them having undertaken this gruelling schedule in addition to their normal, on-going skills training, the Hawthorn players became known as "Kennedy's Commandos".
• OnAnzac Day, a representative match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between theVictorian team from the1966 Hobart Carnival, and a team representing the rest of the league. The Carnival team wore Victoria's traditional Big V guernsey; the Rest team wore a red Guernsey with blue yoke and white collar. The Rest 18.13 (121) defeated the Carnival team 9.13 (67) in front of a crowd of 15,613.^[3]
• In the Second Semi-Final betweenRichmond andCarlton Richmond'sNeville Crowe and Carlton'sJohn Nicholls were wrestling for the ball when Nicholls hit Crowe "in the guts", Crowe stepped back with the football grasped to his chest in his left hand and attempted to slap Nicholls with his open right hand. Crowe missed making any contact with Nicholls by about three inches. Nicholls immediately lifted his own left hand to his face, and pretended to have been badly affected, reeled away from Crowe. Despite Crowe's protests, he was reported for striking Nicholls. At the tribunal Crowe, received no assistance from Nicholls who was reluctant to admit that he was only acting. Crowe was suspended for four weeks; he missed the Grand Final, and never played VFL football again.
• At the end of the season,Harry Beitzel's squad of players drawn mainly from the VFL, known as "The Galahs", played matches in Ireland, England, and the United States.

• The 1967 VFL Premiership team wasRichmond (its first since 1943).
• TheVFL's leading goalkicker wasDoug Wade ofGeelong who kicked 96 goals (including 17 goals in the final series).
• The winner of the 1967Brownlow Medal wasRoss G. Smith ofSt Kilda with 24 votes.
• Footscray took the "wooden spoon" in 1967.
• The reserves premiership was won byNorth Melbourne. North Melbourne 15.13 (103) defeatedRichmond 10.19 (79) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 23 September.^[4]

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