1963 VFL season

Premiership season

Alterations to 1963 match fixtures

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

Consolation Night Series Competition

Premiership Finals

First Semi-Final

Second Semi-Final

Preliminary Final

Grand final

Awards

• The 1963 VFL Premiership team was Geelong.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was John Peck of Hawthorn who kicked 75 goals.
• The winner of the 1963 Brownlow Medal was Bob Skilton of South Melbourne with 20 votes.
• Fitzroy took the "wooden spoon" in 1963.
• The reserves premiership was won by. Geelong 13.12 defeated 7.11 in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5 October.

  Notable events

• In Round 5, Collingwood was the first team to score at least 100 points against Melbourne since Footscray in the 1954 Grand Final; Terry Waters kicked 7 goals in Collingwood's 15.10 to 7.10 victory.
• On Saturday 15 June, South Australia beat Victoria 12.8 to 10.13 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in front of 59,260 spectators. In a brutal return match, in Adelaide, a straighter-kicking Victoria beat South Australia 8.6 to 5.12, a match notorious for a powerful king-hit delivered by Victorian John Peck, who had been included in the team for the return match in order to provide more "grunt" and physical menace, to the jaw of an unsuspecting Brian Sawley. Sawley went some distance in the air before collapsing unconscious in the mud, and had to be carried from the field on a stretcher. Peck was reported, and at the VFL tribunal, Peck testified that the king-hit was in retaliation for Sawley having kicked him in the stomach; Peck was suspended for two weeks.
• Fitzroy's only win during the year was against eventual premiers Geelong, and was achieved without captain-coach Kevin Murray, who was in Perth. Reserves captain Wally Clark took over, and Geelong's weakness in terrible conditions proved their undoing.
• Owing to extremely cold and wet weather, Round 11 was postponed from 13 to 20 July. As of 2019, this is the last time that a complete round of football has been postponed due to weather.