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| Date | 28 September 1940 | |||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Melbourne Cricket Ground | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 70,330 | |||||||||||||||
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The 1940 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Melbourne Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket GroundinMelbourne on 28 September 1940. It was the 42nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1940 VFL season. The match, attended by 70,330 spectators, was won by Melbourne by a margin of 39 points, marking that club's fourth premiership victory.
This was Melbourne's second successive premiership, having defeated Collingwood in the 1939 VFL Grand Final.
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Melbourne 15.17 (107) defeated Richmond 10.8 (68), at the Melbourne Cricket Ground | |
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Melbourne did not field a team from 1916–1918 due to the First World War | |
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Known as the Victorian Football League from 1897–1989; no grand finals were held in 1897 and 1924 | |||||||
