1964 VFL season
The 1964 VFL season was the 68th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 18 April until 19 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 Melbourne Football Club for the twelfth time, after it defeated by four points in the 1964 VFL Grand Final. Premiership season. In 1964, 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 18 rounds; matches 12 to 18 were the "home-and-way reverse" of matches 1 to 7. Once the 18 round home-and-away season had finished, the 1964 VFL "Premiers" were determined by the specific format and conventions of the Page–McIntyre system. Ladder. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> Consolation 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 11.12 (78) defeated St Kilda 11.7 (73).