1983 VFL season
1983 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Hawthorn 5th premiership |
Minor premiers | North Melbourne 3rd minor premiership |
Night series | Carlton 1st Night series win |
Brownlow Medallist | Ross Glendinning North Melbourne (24 votes) |
Coleman Medallist | Bernie Quinlan Fitzroy (106 goals) |
Attendance | |
Matches played | 138 |
Total attendance | 3,638,017 (26,362 per match) |
Highest | 110,332 |
The 1983 Victorian Football League season was the 87th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Night series
Carlton defeated Richmond 14.16 (100) to 10.6 (66) in the final.
Premiership season
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Round 19
Round 20
Round 21
Round 22
Ladder
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
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1 | North Melbourne | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 2789 | 2183 | 127.8 | 64 | Finals |
2 | Hawthorn (P) | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2675 | 2078 | 128.7 | 60 | |
3 | Fitzroy | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2608 | 2059 | 126.7 | 60 | |
4 | Essendon | 22 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2664 | 2215 | 120.3 | 60 | |
5 | Carlton | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2360 | 2244 | 105.2 | 52 | |
6 | Collingwood | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2315 | 2247 | 103.0 | 48 | |
7 | Footscray | 22 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 2102 | 2428 | 86.6 | 40 | |
8 | Melbourne | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 2220 | 2557 | 86.8 | 36 | |
9 | Geelong | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 1932 | 2197 | 87.9 | 32 | |
10 | Richmond | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 2124 | 2392 | 88.8 | 28 | |
11 | Sydney | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 2068 | 2670 | 77.5 | 28 | |
12 | St Kilda | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 2150 | 2737 | 78.6 | 20 |
Source: VFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers
Finals
Elimination Finals
Qualifying Final
Semi Finals
Preliminary Final
Grand Final
Attendance
A total of 3,631,042 people attended VFL matches during the 1983 season, an average of about 26,312 per game (including finals matches). A combined total of 420,439 attended finals matches in 1983, an average of 70,073 per finals match. The largest attendance for a home and away game was Richmond versus Collingwood at the MCG, the attendance figure was 81,966.
Awards
- The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Ross Glendinning of North Melbourne.
- The Coleman Medal was awarded to Bernie Quinlan of Fitzroy.
- The VFL Players Association MVP Award, now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy, was awarded to Terry Daniher of Essendon.
- The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Colin Robertson of Hawthorn.
- The “Wooden Spoon” was “awarded” to St Kilda.
- The reserves premiership was won by Essendon. Essendon 19.14 (128) defeated Collingwood 15.9 (99) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors Grand Final on 24 September.[1]
Notable events
- In Round 4, St Kilda played Paul Morwood and Silvio Foschini without their clearances from the Sydney Swans being finalised. Had they beaten Geelong, they would have forfeited the points under the laws at the time.
- North Melbourne's 150-point loss to Fitzroy in Round 13 more than doubled the previous biggest loss by a minor premier of 69 points, which had occurred in 1952 and 1974.
- In Fitzroy's Round 17 game with St Kilda, a record quarter aggregate of 19.7 (121) – Fitzroy 12.6 (78), St. Kilda 7.1 (43) — was kicked during the second quarter.
- In Round 19, Kevin Bartlett became the first player to play 400 VFL games, after having in Round 11 of 1981 become the first to reach 350 games. As of 2015, only Michael Tuck, Dustin Fletcher and Brent Harvey have since equalled his achievement.
See also
References
- ^ "Grand final scores". The Age. Melbourne, VIC. 26 September 1983. p. 25.
Sources
- Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0-670-90526-7.
- 1983 Season - AFL Tables