1956 VFL grand final
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 2.4 | 6.11 | 10.16 | 17.19 (121) |
| Collingwood | 3.3 | 4.3 | 5.6 | 6.12 (48) |
The 1956 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Collingwood Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 15 September 1956. It was the 60th annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1956 VFL season. The match was won by Melbourne by 73 points, marking that club's eighth premiership victory.
It was the second successive year in which the two teams met in a premiership decider, with Melbourne having won the 1955 VFL Grand Final.
This Grand Final was attended by 115,803 spectators, easily the largest crowd to have witnessed a premiership decider in VFL Grand Final history, breaking the record of 96,486 spectators who witnessed the 1938 VFL Grand Final. The record stood for 12 years until it was eventually broken by the crowd attendance at the 1968 VFL Grand Final.
Teams
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- Umpire: Allan Nash
References
- AFL Tables: 1956 Grand Final
- The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
- Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897-1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996. ISBN 0-670-86814-0