1970 VFA season
Prahran – Division 1 premiers
Division 1
Teams	10
Premiers	Prahran 3rd D1 premiership
Minor premiers	Prahran 3rd D1 minor premiership
Division 2
Teams	10
Premiers	Coburg 1st D2 premiership
Minor premiers	Coburg 1st D2 minor premiership
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The1970Victorian Football Association season was the 89th season of the top division of theAustralian rules football competition, and the tenth season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by thePrahran Football Club, marking the club's third Division 1 premiership; it defeatedWilliamstown, which qualified for the Grand Final in its first season after promotion to Division 1, on 20 September by 50 points. The Division 2 premiership was won byCoburg, in its second season since being relegated from Division 1.

The Division 1 home-and-home season was played over 18 rounds; the top four then contested the finals under thePage–McIntyre system. The finals returned to theSt Kilda Cricket Ground for the first time since 1966.

• The leading goalkicker for the third consecutive season wasJim Miller (Dandenong), who kicked 80 goals in the home-and-away season and did not participate in finals.^[1]
• TheJ. J. Liston Trophy was won byFred Cook (Yarraville). Cook, who later became the Association's all-time leading goalkicker, won the award as Yarraville's first choice ruckman and compared with the rest of his career kicked relatively few goals during the year; he polled 41 votes and won the award by a wide margin of 14 votes, despite Yarraville winning only one game for the season.Kevin Jackman (Williamstown) was second with 27 votes, andDerek King (Oakleigh) finished third with 22 votes.^[6]
• Port Melbourne won the seconds premiership. Port Melbourne 16.18 (114) defeatedPreston 14.9 (93) in the Grand Final,^[4] played as a stand-alone match on Saturday 12 September atToorak Park.^[3]

The Division 2 home-and-home season was played over eighteen rounds; the top four then contested the finals under the Page–McIntyre system; all finals were played on Sundays atToorak Park.

• The leading goalkicker for Division 2 wasGeorge Allen (Sunshine), who kicked 73 goals in the home-and-away season,^[7] and 80 goals overall.^[10]
• The J. J. Field Medal was won by Greg Smith (Mordialloc), who polled 39 votes. Smith finished ahead of Bob Kirkman (Coburg), who was second with 33 votes.^[12]
• Northcote won the seconds premiership. Northcote 15.19 (109) defeatedSunshine 13.14 (92) in the Grand Final, held as a stand-alone match on Saturday 29 August atSkinner Reserve.^[10]

• On 16 March, the Association was formally expelled from theAustralian National Football Council as punishment for itsrefusal to establish a clearance reciprocity agreement with the Victorian Football League during the previous season. The expulsion passed by a vote of 6–3, and brought an end to the Association's twenty-year affiliation with the national body. As a consequence of the expulsion, the League was now free under ANFC rules to field Association players without a permit; likewise the Association could field League players without a permit, but it had already been doing so against ANFC rules.^[13]
• Prior to the season, the Broadmeadows Football Club submitted an application to join the Association; but the application was rejected because Association was not interested in expanding beyond twenty teams.^[14]
• On 26 April,Prahran defeatedPreston to end Preston's 18-match winning streak.^[15]
• The final round in Division 1 saw one of the closest finishes to the home-and-away in Association history, with five teams –Sandringham,Port Melbourne,Dandenong,Waverley andPreston – battling in the final round for the last two positions in the final four. In the final round:^[1]
  • Sandringham, which could have claimed third place with a victory, suffered a heavy loss against Williamstown, trailing by 57 points at quarter time before losing by 41 points
  • Port Melbourne defeated Dandenong by 13 points to claim third place from Sandringham on percentage, and leave Dandenong out of the finals by four premiership points
  • Waverley defeated Oakleigh by 93 points to claim fourth place from Sandringham on percentage
  • Preston defeated Geelong West by 32 points, falling 0.5%pts short of passing Sandringham on percentage for fifth place; the percentage gap to Waverley for fourth place was in any case insurmountable, so Waverley's win eliminated Preston from finals contention.
• Williamstown reached the Division 1 Grand Final in its first season after promotion from Division 2. It was the best performance by a team in its first season after promotion in the history of Division 2.^[16]

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