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1969 VFL grand final

Grand final of the 1969 Victorian Football League season

Field	Value
year	1969
competition	VFL
home	[[File:Richmond Football Club colours (pre-2017).svg	50px]]

home_score	12.13 (85)
away	[[File:Carlton 2018 AFL.png	50px]]

away_score	8.12 (60)
home_abbr	RIC
away_abbr	CAR
home_qtr1	2.2 (14)
home_qtr2	6.5 (41)
home_qtr3	8.6 (54)
home_qtr4	12.13 (85)
away_qtr1	1.4 (10)
away_qtr2	2.7 (19)
away_qtr3	8.10 (58)
away_qtr4	8.12 (60)
date	27 September 1969
attendance	119,165
stadium	Melbourne Cricket Ground
last	1968
next	1970

The 1969 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Carlton Football Club and Richmond Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 27 September 1969. It was the 72nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1969 VFL season. The match, attended by 119,165 spectators, was won by Richmond by a margin of 25 points, marking that club's seventh VFL/AFL premiership victory.

Richmond had only qualified for the finals on percentage and were underdogs coming into the game, with Carlton being the reigning premiers.

The game's attendance of 119,165 represented the most spectators to have witnessed a premiership decider in VFL Grand Final history, breaking the record of 116,828 spectators who witnessed the 1968 VFL Grand Final. The record was subsequently broken again in the 1970 VFL Grand Final.

Teams

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	Kevin Sheedy]]	Barry Richardson]]	backpocket2 = 16 Colin Beard	halfbackflank1 = 28 Geoff Strang	centrehalfback = 27 Graham Burgin	halfbackflank2 = 52 Ian Owen	wing1 = 8 Dick Clay	centre = 24 Bill Barrot	wing2 = 30 Francis Bourke	halfforwardflank1 = 9 John Northey	centrehalfforward = 4 Royce Hart	Roger Dean]] (c)	forwardpocket1 = 2 John Ronaldson	Eric Moore]]	Bill Brown]]	Michael Green]]	Michael Bowden]]	Kevin Bartlett]]	reserve1 = 5 Rex Hunt	reserve2 = 44 Graeme Bond	coach = Tom Hafey}}		backpocket1 = 21 Barry Gill	fullback = 20 Wes Lofts (vc)	backpocket2 = 30 Vin Waite	halfbackflank1 = 15 Phillip Pinnell	centrehalfback = 11 John Goold	Kevin Hall]]	wing1 = 6 Garry Crane	Ian Robertson]]	wing2 = 32 Bryan Quirk	Syd Jackson]]	centrehalfforward = 42 Robert Walls	halfforwardflank2 = 17 Brent Crosswell	Peter Jones]]	fullforward = 25 Alex Jesaulenko	forwardpocket2 = 23 Ian Nicoll	John Nicholls]] (c)	ruckrover = 1 Sergio Silvagni	rover = 10 Adrian Gallagher	Ian Collins]]	reserve2 = 7 Ted Hopkins	coach = Ron Barassi}}

Summary

Moore, Northey 2 Bartlett, Bond, Dean, Hart, Ronaldson 1 1 Crosswell, Jesaulenko, Gallagher, Walls

Richmond won their second premiership in three years, defeating Carlton by 25 points. The Blues led by four points at three-quarter but were held to two points in the last quarter.}}

References

The Official statistical history of the AFL 2004
Ross, J. (ed), 100 Years of Australian Football 1897–1996: The Complete Story of the AFL, All the Big Stories, All the Great Pictures, All the Champions, Every AFL Season Reported, Viking, (Ringwood), 1996.
Lovett, Michael: AFL Record: Guide to Season 2007, AFL Publishing, 2007.

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