The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club after it defeated Coburg in the Grand Final on 10 October by 35 points.
The Council was primarily seeking to improve its financial return on the venue: it cost the city £2,000 to maintain and operate the ground annually, and it received only £60 from the football club in rent for the entire winter, and the gate takings from Seconds matches were meagre;[1] but, it received comparatively enormous offers of £440 from the Jugoslav United Soccer Team and £660 from the Victorian Rugby Union to lease the ground on alternate Saturdays during winter.
[2] This was not the first time that other codes had made attempts to share occupancy of Association venues; in 1954, the Prahran council had turned down an offer of £800 from J.U.S.T.
[5] In two weeks of negotiations, the council offered the Prahran Seconds the use of Como Park, and offered to provide temporary fencing to bring the venue to Association standards;[7] and alternatively suggested that the Prahran Seconds could play a curtain-raiser to the successful bidder – but the Association rejected both suggestions.
[2] The Prahran Football Club also increased its own offer to the council from £60 to £175 to lease the ground for the entire winter.
It played its home games at Selwyn Park, which was up to Association standard and had a recently built £20,000 pavilion.
[10] Sunshine's playing uniform in the MFL consisted of blue and white hoops, identical to Moorabbin's guernsey.