1943 VFL Lightning Premiership

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{{Infobox AFL Lightning Premiership

| year = 1943

| league = VFL

| image =

| imagesize = 180px

| caption = VFL Lightning Premiership

| teams = 4

| winners = {{AFL Ess}}

| count = 1st

| matches = 3

| attendance =

}}

The 1943 VFL Lightning Premiership was an Australian rules football knockout competition played entirely on Saturday 24, July. It was played during a week's break of the Victorian Football Leagues's 1943 VFL season between rounds 11 and 12, with all games being played at Princes Park. The competition was played as a wartime charities fundraiser between the league's top four clubs. This was the third time a lightning premiership had been contested in the VFL. Approximately 11,000 people attended the three match competition. Essendon won the competition by 8 points, defeating Fitzroy in the final.