The 1932

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season was the 54th season of the

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competition. The premiership was won by the

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, after it defeated

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by 26 points in the final on 24 September. It was the club's second VFA premiership, and the first in a sequence of three premierships won consecutively from 1932 until 1934.

Premiership

The home-and-home season was played over twenty matches, before the top four clubs contested a finals series under the amended ''Argus'' system to determine the premiers for the season.

Ladder

Finals

Awards

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( Northcote) was the leading goalkicker for the season, kicking 109 goals in the home-and-home season and 122 goals overall. Seymour's total set a new record for the most goals in a season, breaking his own record of 110 goals set in

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( Northcote) won the

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as the Association's best and fairest, polling nine votes. Jim Jenkins (

), H. Jones (

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) and N. Driver ( Oakleigh) tied for second with eight votes apiece. * Brunswick won the seconds premiership. Brunswick 13.15 (93) defeated

4.13 (37) in the Grand Final at the Coburg Cricket Ground on 1 October.

Notable events

* After winning back-to-back premierships in 1930 and 1931, many of Oakleigh's players either retired or transferred to

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, weakening Oakleigh's playing list so significantly that it won only three matches and received the 1932

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. * A new semi-perpetual trophy was presented to the Association by Grant Hay, to be presented each year to the premiers then won permanently by the first club to win it three times. Northcote, by winning the 1932, 1933 and 1934 premierships, became permanent holders of the trophy without any other club ever being presented it.

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