1950 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

Ladder

Finals

First Semi-Final

Second Semi-Final

Preliminary Final

Grand final

Awards

• The 1950 VFL Premiership team was Essendon.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was John Coleman of Essendon with 120 goals.
• The winner of the 1950 Brownlow Medal was Allan Ruthven of Fitzroy with 21 votes.
• Hawthorn took the "wooden spoon" in 1950.

  Notable events

• In the early 1950 pre-season, veteran Collingwood coach Jock McHale announced his retirement after a then-record 714 senior games. Collingwood called for applications for a non-playing coach, and champion ruckman Phonse Kyne immediately announced his retirement and applied for the job. On 13 April, the Thursday before the last pre-season practice match, the Collingwood committee announced that it had appointed the coach of the Collingwood Second Eighteen team, Bervyn Woods as coach, by the casting vote of the President Harry Curtis. The announcement was greeted with anger, because it meant that Kyne would have to go elsewhere to realise his coaching ambitions. At Collingwood's final practice match, the crowd continuously booed and jeered Woods, the members of the Collingwood committee that had voted for him were threatened and abused, and Kyne was carried around the ground on the shoulders of the crowd at the end of the match. The following day, Woods withdrew his application and reverted to coaching the Second Eighteen, and Kyne was appointed coach. All committee members then resigned their positions, and Curtis did not seek re-election. Former player Syd Coventry was elected the new president, unopposed.
• In Round 2, St Kilda recorded its first win by 100 points or more, defeating Hawthorn 20.24 to 5.5.
• North Melbourne reached the Grand Final for the first time since joining the VFL in 1925.
• In Round 9, North Melbourne won for the first time at Victoria Park, after having suffered 23 straight defeats at the ground.
• Essendon won the First Eighteen, Second Eighteen, and Third Eighteen premierships in 1950.