The1927 VFL season was the 31st season of theVictorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level seniorAustralian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs and ran from 30 April to 1 October, comprising an 18-match home-and-away season followed by a three-weekfinals series featuring the top four clubs.

Collingwood won thepremiership, defeatingRichmond by twelve points in the1927 VFL grand final; it was Collingwood's sixth VFL premiership. Collingwood also won theminor premiership by finishing atop the home-and-away ladder with a 15–3 win–loss record. Collingwood'sSyd Coventry won theBrownlow Medal as the league's best and fairest player, and his brother and teammateGordon Coventry won his second consecutiveleading goalkicker medal as the league's leading goalkicker.

In 1927, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match.

Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 17 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 6, and match 18 the "home-and-away reverse" of match 11.

Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1927 VFLPremiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of theamended "Argus system".

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 74.1
Source:AFL Tables

All of the 1927 finals were played at theMCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final.

• In round 9, remembered as"Duncan's Match",Carlton's centre-halfbackAlex Duncan took at least 33 marks (some claim he took as many as 45) in a single match.
• South Melbourne Football Club introduced a popular innovation: selling reserved grandstand seats.
• After the round 10 match, the Secretary of theRichmond Football Club,Percy "Pip" Page of "Page–McIntyre system fame, had his jaw broken in a fight that erupted during a club dance.
• The Grand Final was played under atrocious weather conditions on aMelbourne Cricket Ground that resembled a swamp. The two teams scored a combined 38 points, and it was the lowest combined score of any VFL/AFL game (Grand Final or otherwise) played in the 20th century. Including the four seasons played in the 19th century (1897–1900), it was the equal 11th lowest-scoring game of all time.

• The 1927 VFL Premiership team wasCollingwood.
• TheVFL's leading goalkicker wasGordon Coventry ofCollingwood with 97 goals.
• The winner of the 1927Brownlow Medal wasSyd Coventry ofCollingwood with 7 votes.
• Hawthorn took the "wooden spoon" in 1927.
• The seconds premiership was won byCarlton for the second straight year. Carlton 12.22 (94) defeatedSouth Melbourne 11.9 (75) in the challenge Grand Final, played as a stand-alone game on 8 October at the Melbourne Cricket Ground before a crowd of 4,210.^[1]

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