Notable Events
- Fitzroy did not win a single match in the 1964 season; as of 2012, this is the last time a team has been winless through a season.
- Carlton's Gordon Collis was reported at the Junction Oval in Round 6; he was cleared and went to win the Brownlow Medal.
- At the end of the Round 10 match between Geelong and North Melbourne at Kardinia Park, North Melbourne coach, 5'4"in (163 cm) Alan Killigrew was king-hit in the players race by an officially unidentified Geelong player. A brief brawl ensued, with Killigrew emerging with his face covered in blood. The VFL initiates an inquiry into the matter, involving the examination of 20 different witnesses. On 20 July the VFL announces that no charges will be laid against Geelong's 6'2"in (188 cm) Geoff Rosenow.
- In Round 13, North Melbourne rover and professional dentist Allen Aylett broke his left arm, and retired immediately.
- On 22 August 1964 (Round 18), Richmond played its last home game at the Punt Road Oval, and would play all future home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; and St Kilda played its last home game at the Junction Oval, moving to Moorabbin Oval the following year (although football would return to Junction Oval in 1970 when Fitzroy moved its home matches there).
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