1989 VFL season

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1989 VFL premiership season
Teams14
Premiers Hawthorn
8th premiership
Minor premiers Hawthorn
7th minor premiership
pre-season cup Melbourne
1st pre-season cup win
Brownlow Medallist Paul Couch (Geelong)
Coleman Medallist Jason Dunstall (Hawthorn)
Attendance
Matches played160
Total attendance3,581,822 (22,386 per match)
Highest94,796 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Geelong)
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The 1989 VFL season was the 93rd 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. It was the last season under the Victorian Football League name, before being renamed the Australian Football League in 1990. The season featured fourteen clubs, ran from 31 March until 30 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 eighth time and second time consecutively, after it defeated Geelong by six points in the 1989 VFL Grand Final.

Night series

1989 Night Series Grand Final
Geelong def. by Melbourne
3.2 (20)
6.6 (42)
9.7 (61)
9.13 (67)		Q1
Q2
Q3
Final		2.5 (17)
4.7 (31)
5.11 (41)
10.16 (76)

Home-and-away 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

(P)Premiers
Qualified for finals
#TeamPWLDPFPA%Pts
1 Hawthorn (P)22193026781748153.276
2 Essendon 22175022401705131.468
3 Geelong 22166029161987146.864
4 Melbourne 2214801876194496.556
5 Collingwood 22139022161964112.852
6 Fitzroy 22121002069212597.448
7 Sydney 221111019591958100.144
8 Carlton 2291211921207992.438
9 North Melbourne 2291302061230189.636
10 Brisbane Bears 2281401792227478.832
11 West Coast 2271501948224786.728
12 St Kilda 2271502108250284.328
13 Footscray 2261511614185587.026
14 Richmond 2251701725243470.920

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 94.6
Source: AFL Tables

Finals series

Finals week 1

Elimination Final
Saturday, 9 September (2:30 pm) Melbourne 17.9 (111)def. Collingwood 13.10 (88) VFL Park (crowd: 63062) Report
Qualifying Final
Sunday, 10 September (2:30 pm) Essendon 24.13 (157)def. Geelong 11.15 (81) MCG (crowd: 75861) Report

Finals week 2

Semi-finals
SF1: Sunday, 17 September (2:30 pm) Geelong 22.21 (153)def. Melbourne 12.18 (90) MCG (crowd: 69082) Report
SF2: Saturday, 16 September (2:30 pm) Hawthorn 16.16 (112)def. Essendon 11.10 (76) VFL Park (crowd: 66003) Report

Preliminary final

Preliminary final
Saturday, 23 September (2:30 pm) Essendon 10.10 (70)def. by Geelong 24.20 (164) VFL Park (crowd: 67,892) Report

Grand final

Grand final
Saturday, 30 September (2:50 pm) Hawthorn 21.18 (144)def. Geelong 21.12 (138) MCG (crowd: 94,796) Report

Foster's Cup

In addition, four of the clubs also played in an international exhibition offseason tournament in October with games in Toronto, Miami Gardens and London. [1] [2] [3] [4]

 
SemifinalsFinal
 
      
 
 12 October, SkyDome
 
 
 Geelong 13.12 (90)
 
 22 October, The Oval
 
 Melbourne 14.19 (103)
 
 Melbourne 12.10 (82)
 
 14 October, Joe Robbie Stadium
 
 Essendon 6.10 (46)
 
 Hawthorn 15.20 (110)
 
 
 Essendon 18.16 (124)
 

Season notes

  1. in round 11 on the Saturday before the Queen's Birthday, Fitzroy's score of 1.8 (14) was the lowest since Footscray kicked 1.8 (14) against Geelong in 1965, and the first single goal score since Carlton's 1.11 (17) on Anzac Day of 1968.
  2. on the same day, Brad Hardie kicked 3.4 (22) – with all three goals coming in the first fifteen minutes – of only 3.8 (26) scored by Brisbane, this being the first time a player had kicked all his team's goals (based on a qualification of a team total of three or more goals) since Alex Ruscuklic in 1967. [9]
  3. in Round 13, Essendon and Footscray played the lowest scoring game since the 1927 grand final, with the teams combining for only 6.15 (51) on a muddy Windy Hill.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "1989 Exhibition Match vs Geelong". Demonwiki. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  2. ↑ Geelong vs. Melbourne – 1989 Fosters Cup Semifinal, Toronto (TV broadcast). SkyDome: Seven Network. 12 October 1989. Retrieved 29 September 2024– via YouTube. Archived by Rhett Bartlett
  3. ↑ Hawthorn vs Essendon – 1989 Fosters Cup Semifinal, Miami Gardens (TV broadcast). Joe Robbie Stadium: Seven Network. 14 October 1989. Retrieved 29 September 2024– via YouTube. Archived by Rhett Bartlett
  4. ↑ Melbourne vs Essendon – 1989 Fosters Cup Final, London (TV broadcast). The Oval: Seven Network. 22 October 1989. Retrieved 29 September 2024– via YouTube.
  5. ↑ "Game Records". AFL Tables. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  6. ↑ Martin Smith (16 June 2024). "Biggest comebacks in history: Pies surpass the 'Miracle on Grass'". Australian Football League. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  7. ↑ Cartwright, Darren (24 December 1989). "A look back at the highlights of 1989 – VFL reign ends in season of change". SPORT. The Canberra Times . Vol. 64, no. 19, 980. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. 15. Retrieved 16 June 2021– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ Melbourne Highest to Lowest Seasonal Rainfall
  9. ↑ Atkinson, Graeme (1989); 3AW Book of Footy Records; South Melbourne,: Magistra Publishing Company Pty Ltd; p. 147. ISBN   1863210091

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