1988 VFL season

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1988 VFL premiership season
Teams14
Premiers Hawthorn
7th premiership
Minor premiers Hawthorn
6th minor premiership
pre-season cup Hawthorn
1st pre-season cup win
Brownlow Medallist Gerard Healy (Sydney)
Coleman Medallist Jason Dunstall (Hawthorn)
Attendance
Matches played160
Total attendance3,528,878 (22,055 per match)
Highest93,754 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Melbourne)
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The 1988 VFL season was the 92nd season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition and administrative body in Victoria, and by reason of it featuring clubs from New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, the de facto highest level senior competition in Australia. The season featured fourteen clubs, ran from 2 April until 24 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.

Contents

The premiership was won by the Hawthorn Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeated Melbourne by 96 points in the 1988 VFL Grand Final.

Night series

Hawthorn 10.10 (70) defeated Geelong 9.13 (67) in the Night Series, which for the first time was played entirely as a pre-season competition, rather than a concurrent competition to the Premiership season.

Home-and-away season

Round 1

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Geelong 11.17 (83) West Coast 14.20 (104) Kardinia Park 20,9812 April 1988
Essendon 25.14 (164) North Melbourne 12.10 (82) Windy Hill 18,3902 April 1988
Carlton 18.18 (126) Hawthorn 15.21 (111) Princes Park 28,1412 April 1988
Brisbane Bears 10.15 (75) Collingwood 11.17 (83) Carrara Stadium 11,3063 April 1988
Fitzroy 20.20 (140) St Kilda 17.16 (118) Princes Park 18,7744 April 1988
Richmond 16.12 (108) Melbourne 23.16 (154) MCG 34,8244 April 1988
Footscray 16.6 (102) Sydney 11.10 (76) VFL Park 18,9804 April 1988

Round 2

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
West Coast 26.19 (175) Essendon 11.10 (76) WACA Ground 24,8868 April 1988
Footscray 9.12 (66) Melbourne 13.8 (86) Western Oval 15,6939 April 1988
Collingwood 15.12 (102) Fitzroy 9.16 (70) Victoria Park 26,1589 April 1988
North Melbourne 20.7 (127) Geelong 21.16 (142) MCG 15,2339 April 1988
Carlton 19.15 (129) Brisbane Bears 7.19 (61) Princes Park 16,8919 April 1988
Hawthorn 26.15 (171) Richmond 12.14 (86) VFL Park 18,0829 April 1988
Sydney 9.12 (66) St Kilda 7.13 (55) SCG 9,00010 April 1988

Round 3

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Hawthorn 17.12 (114) Sydney 13.15 (93) Princes Park 9,92116 April 1988
St Kilda 17.6 (108) North Melbourne 11.16 (82) Moorabbin Oval 16,57316 April 1988
Melbourne 9.18 (72) Geelong 9.10 (64) MCG 30,87016 April 1988
Footscray 16.12 (108) Fitzroy 7.15 (57) Western Oval 12,68316 April 1988
Essendon 11.13 (79) Carlton 23.13 (151) Windy Hill 21,31116 April 1988
Richmond 12.8 (80) Collingwood 23.12 (150) VFL Park 34,44416 April 1988
Brisbane Bears 10.14 (74) West Coast 29.18 (192) WACA Ground 16,35417 April 1988

Round 4

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Melbourne 13.18 (96) Brisbane Bears 5.11 (41) MCG 18,90822 April 1988
Collingwood 13.16 (94) West Coast 8.7 (55) Victoria Park 26,27623 April 1988
Hawthorn 17.18 (120) Fitzroy 15.16 (106) Princes Park 13,29923 April 1988
North Melbourne 19.11 (125) Footscray 13.9 (87) VFL Park 14,94823 April 1988
Sydney 10.20 (80) Carlton 24.22 (166) SCG 16,09124 April 1988
Richmond 11.16 (82) Geelong 24.17 (161) MCG 27,41725 April 1988
St Kilda 10.9 (69) Essendon 14.7 (91) Moorabbin Oval 31,67925 April 1988

Round 5

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
West Coast 14.16 (100) Footscray 14.9 (93) WACA Ground 17,66229 April 1988
Fitzroy 12.19 (91) Richmond 23.15 (153) Princes Park 8,94130 April 1988
North Melbourne 19.14 (128) Hawthorn 31.19 (205) MCG 15,43830 April 1988
Geelong 17.14 (116) Essendon 13.14 (92) Kardinia Park 23,80530 April 1988
St Kilda 12.12 (84) Brisbane Bears 13.15 (93) Moorabbin Oval 15,26030 April 1988
Carlton 10.9 (69) Collingwood 14.13 (97) VFL Park 76,35430 April 1988
Sydney 12.17 (89) Melbourne 17.14 (116) SCG 9,2691 May 1988

Round 6

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
North Melbourne 17.21 (123) West Coast 17.8 (110) MCG 11,1336 May 1988
Footscray 12.19 (91) Richmond 5.16 (46) Western Oval 12,3747 May 1988
Carlton 10.12 (72) St Kilda 4.8 (32) Princes Park 15,8127 May 1988
Melbourne 9.14 (68) Essendon 16.5 (101) MCG 34,6797 May 1988
Collingwood 13.13 (91) Hawthorn 14.9 (93) VFL Park 53,1847 May 1988
Geelong 16.15 (111) Sydney 17.12 (114) Kardinia Park 19,1068 May 1988
Brisbane Bears 17.11 (113) Fitzroy 16.15 (111) Carrara Stadium 9,9818 May 1988

Round 7

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
West Coast 17.10 (112) St Kilda 3.18 (36) WACA Ground 12,80313 May 1988
Fitzroy 15.16 (106) Sydney 9.13 (67) Princes Park 8,56814 May 1988
Melbourne 15.21 (111) Hawthorn 13.12 (90) MCG 34,77314 May 1988
Essendon 17.17 (119) Collingwood 11.9 (75) Windy Hill 24,32314 May 1988
Geelong 15.14 (104) Carlton 14.9 (93) VFL Park 26,37214 May 1988
Brisbane Bears 10.12 (72) Footscray 9.17 (71) Carrara Stadium 10,89815 May 1988
Richmond 11.7 (73) North Melbourne 22.18 (150) MCG 12,88015 May 1988

Round 8

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Sydney 11.21 (87) Brisbane Bears 17.13 (115) SCG 13,32220 May 1988
Fitzroy 12.17 (89) Melbourne 17.13 (115) Princes Park 12,99721 May 1988
Essendon 20.17 (137) Richmond 13.11 (89) Windy Hill 14,52021 May 1988
Collingwood 13.10 (88) Footscray 11.16 (82) Victoria Park 22,68321 May 1988
Carlton 19.20 (134) North Melbourne 19.7 (121) VFL Park 22,97821 May 1988
Geelong 16.12 (108) St Kilda 17.12 (114) Kardinia Park 20,34522 May 1988
West Coast 9.9 (63) Hawthorn 17.14 (116) Subiaco Oval 27,02422 May 1988

Round 9

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Essendon 29.20 (194) Brisbane Bears 8.6 (54) MCG 26,65327 May 1988
Richmond 10.13 (73) Sydney 20.16 (136) MCG 11,46828 May 1988
St Kilda 16.10 (106) Melbourne 11.12 (78) Moorabbin Oval 21,33428 May 1988
Hawthorn 23.16 (154) Footscray 9.11 (65) Princes Park 12,78628 May 1988
Geelong 20.13 (133) Fitzroy 15.10 (100) Kardinia Park 13,96228 May 1988
North Melbourne 4.11 (35) Collingwood 11.17 (83) VFL Park 28,84928 May 1988
West Coast 12.15 (87) Carlton 15.10 (100) Subiaco Oval 27,18429 May 1988

Round 10

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Sydney 11.11 (77) Essendon 8.7 (55) SCG 14,7533 June 1988
Fitzroy 24.13 (157) North Melbourne 18.16 (124) Princes Park 8,3954 June 1988
St Kilda 17.19 (121) Hawthorn 21.11 (137) MCG 25,6934 June 1988
Collingwood 10.11 (71) Melbourne 12.12 (84) VFL Park 61,1634 June 1988
Footscray 11.9 (75) Carlton 15.6 (96) Western Oval 17,5154 June 1988
Richmond 16.20 (116) West Coast 10.15 (75) MCG 7,1575 June 1988
Brisbane Bears 16.13 (109) Geelong 24.18 (162) Carrara Stadium 8,6375 June 1988

Round 11

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Sydney 18.24 (132) North Melbourne 19.11 (125) SCG 11,72910 June 1988
Carlton 21.18 (144) Fitzroy 15.11 (101) Princes Park 21,90011 June 1988
St Kilda 7.9 (51) Footscray 11.12 (78) VFL Park 24,14911 June 1988
Brisbane Bears 23.13 (151) Richmond 15.13 (103) Carrara Stadium 13,22212 June 1988
Melbourne 13.15 (93) West Coast 10.13 (73) MCG 28,04513 June 1988
Hawthorn 17.16 (118) Essendon 10.8 (68) Princes Park 28,59013 June 1988
Geelong 9.10 (64) Collingwood 16.7 (103) Kardinia Park 34,78913 June 1988

Round 12

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Richmond 15.20 (110) Carlton 12.21 (93) MCG 19,45817 June 1988
Footscray 7.14 (56) Geelong 3.12 (30) Western Oval 13,72018 June 1988
North Melbourne 10.14 (74) Melbourne 7.19 (61) MCG 18,07818 June 1988
St Kilda 3.12 (30) Collingwood 7.9 (51) Moorabbin Oval 23,88018 June 1988
Hawthorn 10.20 (80) Brisbane Bears 2.5 (17) Princes Park 8,37718 June 1988
Fitzroy 7.9 (51) Essendon 4.9 (33) VFL Park 18,85418 June 1988
Sydney 14.20 (104) West Coast 8.13 (61) SCG 12,62419 June 1988

Round 13

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Essendon 10.15 (75) Footscray 15.9 (99) Windy Hill 15,86125 June 1988
Collingwood 9.14 (68) Sydney 2.11 (23) Victoria Park 23,03125 June 1988
St Kilda 8.18 (66) Richmond 5.11 (41) Moorabbin Oval 17,77025 June 1988
Hawthorn 17.10 (112) Geelong 12.15 (87) Princes Park 14,04825 June 1988
North Melbourne 22.19 (151) Brisbane Bears 13.7 (85) MCG 7,76425 June 1988
Melbourne 10.6 (66) Carlton 5.13 (43) VFL Park 37,95325 June 1988
West Coast 17.19 (121) Fitzroy 13.9 (87) Subiaco Oval 14,82726 June 1988

Round 14

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Sydney 13.18 (96) Richmond 19.17 (131) SCG 8,0081 July 1988
Geelong 8.8 (56) Melbourne 13.11 (89) Kardinia Park 16,7772 July 1988
Footscray 11.11 (77) Hawthorn 15.15 (105) Western Oval 14,3382 July 1988
Essendon 16.16 (112) West Coast 13.7 (85) Windy Hill 10,2742 July 1988
Fitzroy 10.11 (71) North Melbourne 15.20 (110) VFL Park 10,3102 July 1988
Carlton 11.21 (87) Collingwood 16.14 (110) MCG 72,9062 July 1988
Brisbane Bears 14.15 (99) St Kilda 12.17 (89) Carrara Stadium 10,3943 July 1988

Round 15

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Melbourne 8.9 (57) Sydney 19.16 (130) MCG 20,2699 July 1988
Fitzroy 21.16 (142) Collingwood 7.10 (52) Princes Park 13,9619 July 1988
St Kilda 9.11 (65) Carlton 10.9 (69) Moorabbin Oval 15,4169 July 1988
Footscray 12.8 (80) Richmond 8.7 (55) VFL Park 14,7219 July 1988
Brisbane Bears 12.19 (91) Hawthorn 17.13 (115) Carrara Stadium 14,21310 July 1988
West Coast 18.18 (126) Geelong 16.10 (106) Subiaco Oval 18,53610 July 1988
North Melbourne 14.10 (94) Essendon 21.14 (140) MCG 26,75510 July 1988

Round 16

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
West Coast 14.14 (98) Brisbane Bears 12.17 (89) WACA Ground 15,83115 July 1988
Essendon 16.14 (110) Fitzroy 9.12 (66) Windy Hill 14,46716 July 1988
Carlton 21.15 (141) Geelong 14.14 (98) Princes Park 17,82116 July 1988
Melbourne 14.10 (94) Collingwood 6.12 (48) MCG 74,96416 July 1988
Richmond 17.13 (115) St Kilda 15.8 (98) VFL Park 20,19916 July 1988
Sydney 24.19 (163) Hawthorn 16.16 (112) SCG 14,59117 July 1988
North Melbourne 12.14 (86) Footscray 16.17 (113) MCG 16,87217 July 1988

Round 17

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Fitzroy 19.20 (134) West Coast 8.16 (64) MCG 7,61122 July 1988
St Kilda 14.8 (92) Sydney 13.21 (99) Moorabbin Oval 11,65723 July 1988
Collingwood 14.8 (92) North Melbourne 13.14 (92) Victoria Park 16,08223 July 1988
Carlton 13.22 (100) Richmond 8.12 (60) Princes Park 17,50323 July 1988
Geelong 17.13 (115) Footscray 10.9 (69) Kardinia Park 13,49223 July 1988
Melbourne 10.8 (68) Hawthorn 21.11 (137) VFL Park 37,30723 July 1988
Brisbane Bears 10.14 (74) Essendon 16.7 (103) Carrara Stadium 15,95024 July 1988

Round 18

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Sydney 12.16 (88) Geelong 22.19 (151) SCG 12,22829 July 1988
North Melbourne 16.13 (109) Richmond 21.14 (140) MCG 11,90930 July 1988
Collingwood 16.18 (114) St Kilda 11.14 (80) Victoria Park 16,40830 July 1988
Fitzroy 9.13 (67) Carlton 22.11 (143) Princes Park 15,46730 July 1988
Hawthorn 12.16 (88) Essendon 9.8 (62) VFL Park 35,66230 July 1988
West Coast 18.14 (122) Melbourne 11.12 (78) Subiaco Oval 16,18831 July 1988
Footscray 11.18 (84) Brisbane Bears 5.13 (43) Western Oval 11,69431 July 1988

Round 19

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Collingwood 18.14 (122) Brisbane Bears 11.10 (76) MCG 20,5755 August 1988
Footscray 19.18 (132) St Kilda 9.9 (63) Western Oval 10,4776 August 1988
Essendon 12.18 (90) Geelong 24.13 (157) Windy Hill 15,6416 August 1988
Richmond 23.11 (149) Melbourne 20.11 (131) MCG 20,4756 August 1988
Hawthorn 27.16 (178) Fitzroy 15.14 (104) Princes Park 12,8366 August 1988
Carlton 11.13 (79) Sydney 15.17 (107) VFL Park 18,3556 August 1988
West Coast 16.19 (115) North Melbourne 12.12 (84) Subiaco Oval 18,0897 August 1988

Round 20

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Richmond 11.20 (86) Brisbane Bears 14.16 (100) MCG 15,02612 August 1988
St Kilda 13.10 (88) West Coast 14.13 (97) Moorabbin Oval 11,07413 August 1988
Carlton 20.21 (141) North Melbourne 20.17 (137) Princes Park 16,72313 August 1988
Melbourne 14.16 (100) Footscray 17.8 (110) MCG 27,02613 August 1988
Collingwood 10.14 (74) Essendon 10.13 (73) VFL Park 52,71913 August 1988
Geelong 10.8 (68) Hawthorn 19.14 (128) Kardinia Park 22,00014 August 1988
Sydney 24.16 (160) Fitzroy 14.13 (97) SCG 13,81114 August 1988

Round 21

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
North Melbourne 16.17 (113) Sydney 14.17 (101) MCG 14,77219 August 1988
Geelong 22.14 (146) Richmond 16.12 (108) Kardinia Park 14,33820 August 1988
Fitzroy 19.13 (127) Footscray 17.11 (113) Princes Park 13,02820 August 1988
Essendon 19.14 (128) Melbourne 13.12 (90) Windy Hill 19,86320 August 1988
Hawthorn 18.15 (123) St Kilda 11.12 (78) VFL Park 19,22220 August 1988
Brisbane Bears 14.13 (97) Carlton 13.22 (100) Carrara Stadium 16,72721 August 1988
West Coast 16.15 (111) Collingwood 7.9 (51) Subiaco Oval 36,11621 August 1988

Round 22

Home teamHome team scoreAway teamAway team scoreVenueCrowdDate
Richmond 23.19 (157) Fitzroy 7.12 (54) MCG 19,49626 August 1988
Hawthorn 28.16 (184) North Melbourne 13.11 (89) Princes Park 12,11727 August 1988
Collingwood 19.15 (129) Geelong 14.10 (94) Victoria Park 19,81327 August 1988
Melbourne 14.12 (96) Carlton 10.6 (66) MCG 50,17827 August 1988
Essendon 12.12 (84) St Kilda 8.17 (65) VFL Park 26,13427 August 1988
Brisbane Bears 11.11 (77) Sydney 10.21 (81) Carrara Stadium 12,71828 August 1988
Footscray 3.11 (29) West Coast 7.11 (53) Western Oval 18,45628 August 1988

Ladder

(P)Premiers
Qualified for finals
#TeamPWLDPFPA %Pts
1 Hawthorn (P)22193027911962142.376
2 Collingwood 22156119481728112.762
3 Carlton 22157023421961119.460
4 West Coast 22139021991966111.952
5 Melbourne 22139020031961102.152
6 Essendon 221210021862017108.448
7 Sydney 22121002169217699.748
8 Footscray 221111018801803104.344
9 Geelong 221012023562246104.940
10 Richmond 2281402161254085.132
11 North Melbourne 2271412361263889.530
12 Fitzroy 2271502128253883.828
13 Brisbane Bears 2271501806242174.628
14 St Kilda 2241801708208182.116

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 97.5
Source: AFL Tables

Finals series

Finals week 1

Home teamScoreAway teamScoreVenueAttendanceDate
West Coast 10.11 (71) Melbourne 11.7 (73) Waverley Park 43,438Saturday, 3 September
Carlton 22.13 (145) Collingwood 16.11 (107) MCG 83,032Sunday, 4 September

Finals week 2

Home teamScoreAway teamScoreVenueAttendanceDate
Hawthorn 9.12 (66) Carlton 6.9 (45) Waverley Park 60,052Saturday, 10 September
Collingwood 12.10 (82) Melbourne 13.17 (95) MCG 87,407Sunday, 11 September

Preliminary final

Home teamScoreAway teamScoreVenueAttendanceDate
Carlton 14.14 (98) Melbourne 19.6 (120) Waverly Park 68,516Saturday, 17 September

Grand final

Home teamScoreAway teamScoreVenueAttendanceDate
Hawthorn 22.20 (152) Melbourne 6.20 (56) Melbourne Cricket Ground 93,754Saturday, 24 September

Season notes

Awards

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