1947 VFL season

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Ladder

Finals

Semi finals

Preliminary Final

Grand final

Awards

• The 1947 VFL Premiership team was Carlton.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Fred Fanning of Melbourne with 97 goals.
• The winner of the 1947 Brownlow Medal was Bert Deacon of Carlton with 20 votes.
• St Kilda took the "wooden spoon" in 1947.
• The seconds premiership was won by. North Melbourne 16.13 defeated 14.10 in the Grand Final, played as a curtain-raiser to the senior Grand Final on Saturday 27 September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
• The thirds premiership was won by. Melbourne 12.13 defeated 11.7 on Saturday 6 September.

  Notable events

• In Round 2, South Melbourne returned to the Lake Oval for the first time since 1941 after it was vacated by the military and had its grandstand rebuilt; this was the final home ground change related to World War II.
• At the first bounce, at the very start of the round 5 match between Hawthorn and Richmond, Richmond ruckman Laurie Taylor punched the ball an amazing 40 yards and dislocated his shoulder.
• Richmond champion Jack Titus, having retired early in the 1946 VFA season, having scored 1159 goals in his senior career of 294 games with Richmond, 23 games with Coburg, and 14 games for Victoria, played one match for the Richmond Second Eighteen when it was short of players at the age of 39 and scored 12 goals against North Melbourne.
• In round 6, with North Melbourne trailing Essendon by 44 points at three quarter time, North Melbourne captain Les Foote moved into the ruck and almost single-handedly led a comeback which ended with an eight-point victory to North Melbourne: North Melbourne 15.12 to Essendon 14.10.
• Western Australia defeated Victoria 16.10 to 14.17 at the Tenth ANFC Carnival in Tasmania. Also, in a challenge match, a combined South Australian and Western Australian team defeated the Victorian team 21.14 to 19.15.
• In the final round and his last league match before accepting a coaching job in the Western District, Melbourne's Fred Fanning kicked 18 goals 1 behind. This broke Gordon Coventry's Round 12, 1930 record for the most goals by one player in a VFL match, and still stands today.
• Carlton won the Grand Final by a point after Fred Stafford kicked a goal just before the final bell.