1972 VFL season
Round 1
Columns: Home team | Home team score | Away team | Away team score | Venue | Crowd | Date
Hawthorn | 15.14 (104) | Melbourne | 10.15 (75) | Glenferrie Oval | 26000 | 1 April 1972 | Carlton | 11.15 (81) | Fitzroy | 10.10 (70) | Princes Park | 32500 | 1 April 1972 | St Kilda | 20.14 (134) | North Melbourne | 11.10 (76) | Moorabbin Oval | 24000 | 1 April 1972 | South Melbourne | 10.13 (73) | Geelong | 9.7 (61) | Lake Oval | 18654 | 3 April 1972 | Footscray | 9.13 (67) | Essendon | 18.20 (128) | Western Oval | 28935 | 3 April 1972 | Richmond | 16.9 (105) | Collingwood | 14.17 (101) | MCG | 72714 | 3 April 1972