1929 VFL season
The 1929 VFL season was the 33rd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 27 April until 28 September, and comprised an 18-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top four clubs. The premiership was won by the Collingwood Football Club for the eighth time and third time consecutively. Collingwood became the first and only club to record an undefeated home-and-away season in the league's history, with an 18–0 record; and  although it lost its semi-final, it won the premiership by defeating by 29 points in the 1929 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season. In 1929, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, with no "reserves", although any of the 18 players who had left the playing field for any reason could later resume their place on the field at any time during the match. Teams played each other in a home-and-away season of 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-away reverse" of matches 1 to 7. Once  the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1929 VFL "Premiers" were determined by the specific format and conventions of the amended ""Argus" system". Ladder. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Finals. All of the 1929 finals were played at the MCG so the home team in the semi-finals and Preliminary Final is purely the higher ranked team from the ladder but in the Grand Final the home team was the team that won the Preliminary Final. Grand final. Collingwood defeated Richmond 11.13 (79) to 7.8 (50), in front of a crowd of 63,336 people at the MCG 28 September