1970 VFL season

Results and statistics for the VFL/AFL season of 1970.

Premiership season

In 1970, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th 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 22 rounds; matches 12 to 22 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 11.

Once the 22 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1970 VFL Premiers were determined by the specific format and conventions of the "Page-McIntyre system".

Round 1

|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"| Home team| Home team score| Away team| Away team score| Venue| Crowd| Date|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| | 21.19 (145)| | 14.12 (96)| Princes Park| 23,948| 4 April 1970|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| | 14.16 (100)| | 7.6 (48)| Moorabbin Oval| 21,429| 4 April 1970|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| | 9.14 (68)| | 14.9 (93)| Lake Oval| 15,242| 4 April 1970|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| | 19.12 (126)| | 21.9 (135)| Glenferrie Oval| 20,509| 4 April 1970|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| | 12.12 (84)| | 23.10 (148)| Western Oval| 26,596| 4 April 1970|- bgcolor="#FFFFFF"| | 14.12 (96)| | 16.20 (116)| MCG| 38,617| 5 April 1970

Round 2

|- bgcolor="#CCCCFF"| Home team| Home team score| Away team| Away team score| Venue| Crowd| Date|-...
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