title: 1940 VFL grand final
text: # 1940 VFL grand final
  
  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 Ground in Melbourne 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.
  
  ## Teams
  
  | Melbourne | Richmond |
  | - | - |
  
  Melbourne :
  
  | B: | Richie Emselle | Frank Roberts | Harold Ball |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | HB: | Col McLean | Gordon Jones | Dick Hingston |
  | C: | Ray Wartman | Allan La Fontaine (c) | Syd Anderson |
  | HF: | Maurie Gibb | Ron Baggott | Keith Truscott |
  | F: | Fred Fanning | Norm Smith | Alby Rodda |
  | Foll: | Jack Mueller | Jack O'Keefe | Percy Beames |
  | Res: | Ron Barassi | |
  | Coach: | Checker Hughes | Checker Hughes | Checker Hughes |
  
  Richmond :
  
  | B: | Kevin O'Neill | George Smeaton | Jack Symons |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | HB: | Raymond Steele | Ian Hull | Jack Cotter |
  | C: | Alan McDonald | Bernie Waldron | Bert Edwards |
  | HF: | Ray Martin | Jack Crane | Laird Smith |
  | F: | Bob Bawden | Jack Titus | Dick Harris |
  | Foll: | Percy Bentley (c) | Jack Dyer | Jack Quinn |
  | Res: | Leo Merrett | |
  | Coach: | Percy Bentley | Percy Bentley | Percy Bentley |
  
  * Umpire - Alan Coward
  
  ## Statistics
  
  ### Goalkickers
  
  | Melbourne: N Smith 7 R Baggott 2 P Beames 2 J O'Keefe 2 F Fanning 1 K Truscott 1 | Richmond: D Harris 5 J Titus 3 R Bawden 1 J Crane 1 |
  | - | - |
  