The 1958 VFL Night Premiership Cup was the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

end of season cup competition played in August and September of the 1958 VFL Premiership Season. This was the third year the

VFL Night Series The Victorian Football League night series, also known during its history by a variety of sponsored names, was an Australian rules football tournament held annually between 1956 and 1971, and again on three occasions in the late 1970's and 1980' ...

had existed. In last years competition, each of the day finalists were duly defeated upon entry and their addition to the competition resulted in a drawn-out and complicated fixture of matches. The VFL thus elected to return to the original format for this year's competition as previously used in the

1956 Night Series Cup The 1956 VFL Night Premiership Cup was the Victorian Football League end of season cup competition played between the eight teams that didn't make the finals of that season. It was held between 23 August to 17 September 1956 with games being pla ...

. Run as a knock-out tournament, it was contested by the eight VFL teams that failed to make the 1958 VFL finals series. Games were played at the

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, Albert Park, then the home ground of

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, as it was the only ground equipped to host night games. St Kilda went on to win the night series cup, defeating Carlton in the final by 8 points.

Games

Round 1

, - bgcolor="#CCCCFF" , Winning team , Winning team score , Losing team , Losing team score , Ground , Crowd , Date , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 16.16 (112) , , 11.19 (85) ,

, 6,800 , Thursday, 28 August , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 8.21 (69) , , 9.12 (66) ,

, 11,000 , Tuesday, 2 September , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 17.10 (112) , , 12.13 (85) ,

, 14,000 , Thursday, 4 September , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 9.19 (73) , , 4.20 (44) ,

, 17,850 , Tuesday, 9 September

Semifinals

, - bgcolor="#CCCCFF" , Winning team , Winning team score , Losing team , Losing team score , Ground , Crowd , Date , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 10.12 (72) , , 6.16 (52) ,

, 16,200 , Thursday, 11 September , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 13.13 (91) , , 6.10 (46) ,

, 15,500 , Tuesday, 16 September

Final

, - bgcolor="#CCCCFF" , Winning team , Winning team score , Losing team , Losing team score , Ground , Crowd , Date , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 16.13 (109) , , 15.11 (101) ,

, 26,400 , Monday, 22 September

External links

1958 VFL Night Premiership - detailed review including quarter-by-quarter scores, best players and goalkickers for each match
Australian Football League pre-season competition {{AFL-competition-stub

Games

Round 1

Semifinals

Final

See also

External links