1989 VFL premiership season | |
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Teams | 14 |
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 played | 160 |
Total attendance | 3,581,822 (22,386 per match) |
Highest | 94,796 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Geelong) |
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. 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.
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.
1989 Night Series Grand Final | |||||
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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) | |||
(P) | Premiers |
Qualified for finals |
# | Team | P | W | L | D | PF | PA | % | Pts |
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1 | Hawthorn (P) | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 2678 | 1748 | 153.2 | 76 |
2 | Essendon | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 2240 | 1705 | 131.4 | 68 |
3 | Geelong | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 2916 | 1987 | 146.8 | 64 |
4 | Melbourne | 22 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1876 | 1944 | 96.5 | 56 |
5 | Collingwood | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2216 | 1964 | 112.8 | 52 |
6 | Fitzroy | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2069 | 2125 | 97.4 | 48 |
7 | Sydney | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1959 | 1958 | 100.1 | 44 |
8 | Carlton | 22 | 9 | 12 | 1 | 1921 | 2079 | 92.4 | 38 |
9 | North Melbourne | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 2061 | 2301 | 89.6 | 36 |
10 | Brisbane Bears | 22 | 8 | 14 | 0 | 1792 | 2274 | 78.8 | 32 |
11 | West Coast | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 1948 | 2247 | 86.7 | 28 |
12 | St Kilda | 22 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 2108 | 2502 | 84.3 | 28 |
13 | Footscray | 22 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 1614 | 1855 | 87.0 | 26 |
14 | Richmond | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 1725 | 2434 | 70.9 | 20 |
Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points for
Average score: 94.6
Source: AFL Tables
Elimination Final | |||||
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Saturday, 9 September (2:30 pm) | Melbourne 17.9 (111) | def. | Collingwood 13.10 (88) | VFL Park (crowd: 63062) | Report |
Qualifying Final | |||||
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Sunday, 10 September (2:30 pm) | Essendon 24.13 (157) | def. | Geelong 11.15 (81) | MCG (crowd: 75861) | Report |
Semi-finals | |||||
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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 | |||||
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Saturday, 23 September (2:30 pm) | Essendon 10.10 (70) | def. by | Geelong 24.20 (164) | VFL Park (crowd: 67,892) | Report |
Grand final | |||||
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Saturday, 30 September (2:50 pm) | Hawthorn 21.18 (144) | def. | Geelong 21.12 (138) | MCG (crowd: 94,796) | Report |
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