1963 VFL season

Results and statistics for the VFL/AFL season of 1963.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

Ladder

All teams played 18 games during the home and away season, for a total of 108. An additional 4 games were played during the finals series.

	Team	Won	Lost	Draw	%	Points
1	Hawthorn	13	4	1	130.6	54
2	Geelong	13	4	1	128.7	54
3	Melbourne	13	5	0	147.5	52
4	St Kilda	13	5	0	140.1	52
5	Essendon	13	5	0	137.5	52
6	Carlton	10	8	0	103.3	40
7	North Melbourne	8	10	0	85.1	32
8	Collingwood	7	11	0	95.7	28
9	Footscray	7	11	0	87.8	28
10	Richmond	5	13	0	75.8	20
11	South Melbourne	4	14	0	69.8	16
12	Fitzroy	1	17	0	57.5	4

Night Series Competition

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 10.9 (69) defeated Richmond 9.9 (63)

First Semi-Final

Team	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	Final
Melbourne	1.4	4.11	8.14	9.17 (71)
St Kilda	0.2	1.6	4.8	8.16 (64)
Attendance: 88,914

Second Semi-Final

Team	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	Final
Hawthorn	2.7	7.10	8.13	11.16 (82)
Geelong	4.4	9.6	12.12	14.17 (101)
Attendance: 91,471

Preliminary Final

Team	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	Final
Hawthorn	1.4	5.9	9.9	11.11 (77)
Melbourne	2.3	3.4	8.6	10.8 (68)
Attendance: 86,586

Grand Final

Team	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	Final
Geelong	3.3	7.10	9.13	15.19 (109)
Hawthorn	3.6	5.6	8.9	8.12 (60)
Attendance: 101,209

Grand Final Teams

		Geelong
Backs	Scott	West	John Watts
H/Backs	S. Lord	Walker	John Devine
Centre Line	Routley	Alistair Lord	Brown
H/Forwards	John Hynes	Fred Wooller(C)	Sharrock
Forwards	Rice	Doug Wade	Yeates
Rucks/Rover	Graham Farmer	Vinar	Bill Goggin
Reserves	Goodland	Polineli

		Hawthorn
Backs	David Parkin	xxxxxxxx	xxxxxxxx
H/Backs
Centre Line
H/Forwards
Forwards		John Peck
Rucks/Rover		Graham Arthur(C)	Ian Law
Reserves

Umpire -

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Bob Skilton of South Melbourne with 20 votes.
• The Wooden Spoon was "awarded" to Fitzroy

Leading Goalkicker

• John Peck of Hawthorn 75 goals (including 6 goals in the final series).

Facts

• No team was able to score more than 100 points against Melbourne from Round 1, 1955 until Round 5, 1963 when Collingwood, with Terry Waters's 7 goals, defeated them 15.10 (100) to 7.10 (52) at Victoria Park, Melbourne.
• The rain persisted throughout the week and further heavy downpours on the Friday caused the postponement of Round 11 to the following Saturday, July 20th. This was the last time a round has been postponed.

Match attendance

108 Home & Away Games	Avg/Per Game		Final Series	Avg/Per Game		Grand Final
2,744,619	25,413		368,627	92,157		101,209

References

• Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0 670 90526 7.
• Stats on VFL crowds