Awards
- The 1942 VFL Premiership team was Essendon.
- The VFL's leading goalkicker was Lindsay White of South Melbourne with 67 goals (80 after finals); White usually played for Geelong, but transferred to South Melbourne because Geelong had withdrawn from the war-time competition.
- No Brownlow Medal was awarded in 1942.
- Hawthorn took the "wooden spoon" in 1942.
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