1962 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

Consolation Night Series Competition

Premiership Finals

First Semi-Final

Second Semi-Final

Preliminary Final

Preliminary Final Replay

Grand final

Awards

• The 1962 VFL Premiership team was Essendon.
• The VFL's leading goalkicker was Doug Wade of Geelong who kicked 68 goals.
• The winner of the 1962 Brownlow Medal was Alistair Lord of Geelong with 28 votes.
• South Melbourne took the "wooden spoon" in 1962.
• The reserves premiership was won by. Footscray 13.13 defeated 10.8 in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Preliminary Final Replay at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 22 September.

  Notable events

• Having abandoned live telecasts of the last quarters of VFL matches at the end of 1960, and having forbidden Saturday evening replays during the 1961 season, the VFL agreed to allow television stations to broadcast one hour of replays each Saturday evening, provided no more than 30 minutes of any one match was broadcast. A separate arrangement was made to allow a replay of the entire Grand Final match.
• St Kilda won its first match against Collingwood at Victoria Park since Round 2, 1919.
• On Anzac Day, a representative match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground between the Victorian team from the 1961 Brisbane Carnival, and a team representing the rest of the league. The Rest 13.7 defeated the Carnival team 10.17 in front of a crowd of 17,068.
• In the Round 10 match between and at the Brunswick Street Oval, scores were level at 51 apiece when the final siren sounded; but, play was at the opposite end of the venue to the grandstand where the siren was located, and the umpire did not hear it. From the ensuing ball-up, Carlton's Martin Cross punched the ball through for a rushed behind, and Carlton won by that point. Fitzroy did not protest the result; it did request that the Fitzroy Cricket Club install new sirens at the other end of the field, but the request was rejected.
• In September, the VFL purchased land to the east of Melbourne, at Mulgrave, upon which later built VFL Park.
• The Preliminary Final replay between Carlton and Geelong was by Carlton won by 5 points. In the final moments of the match, Geelong full forward Doug Wade took a strong mark directly in front of the Geelong goals, but he was penalised for interfering with Carlton full-back Peter Barry.
• In the Grand Final, a badly injured Geoff Leek played one of the best matches in his career to nullify Carlton's John Nicholls and pave the way for a sound 32 point win by Essendon.