Consolation Night Series Competition
The first VFL night series was held under floodlights at Lake Oval, South Melbourne amongst those teams who had missed the regular final series.
The eight teams that had finished in places 5 to 12 on the end-of-season ladder played in a set of seven elimination matches at the end of the home-and-away season.
The Final was played on the evening of Monday 17 September 1956 (two days after the VFL Grand Final) in front of 33,120 spectators.
Final: South Melbourne 13.16 (94) defeated Carlton 13.10 (78)
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