Results and statistics for the Australian Football League season of 1990.

See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list.

Essendon defeated North Melbourne 17.10 (112) to 10.16 (76)

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 154. An additional 7 games were played during the finals series.

NOTE: The "home" team is listed first

Goals Hawthorn: Brereton (2), Dunstall (2), Hall (2), Platten, Pritchard
Goals Melbourne: Bennett (4), Stretch (2), Eishold, Healy, Jackson, Spalding
Best Hawthorn: Hall, Tuck, Mew, Pritchard
Best Melbourne: Eishold, Stynes, Campbell, Yeats, Rohde, Newport, Healy
Umpires: Carey, Sawers
Attendance: 74,954 at the MCG

Goals Collingwood: Daicos (4), Barwick (3), Brown (3), Taylor (2), Manson
Goals West Coast: Sumich (4), Lewis (2), Heady (2), Langdon (2), Kemp, Keene, Waterman
Best Collingwood: Brown, Wright, Francis, Millane, A. Richardson, Gayfer, Daicos
Best West Coast: Lewis, Heady, Lamb, Mainwaring, Hart, Langdon, Watters
Umpires: Ball, Rich
Attendance: 57,546 at Waverley Park

Edward Joseph "Eddie" McGuire AM (born 29 October 1964) is an Australian television presenter and businessman known for his long association with Australian rules football and the Channel 9 television network.

McGuire is the current president of the Collingwood Football Club and Melbourne Stars and the current host of Channel Nine program Millionaire Hot Seat and Million Dollar Money Drop Australia. He is also the host of The Hot Breakfast With Eddie McGuire on Triple M Melbourne, as well as being an Australian rules football commentator for Fox Footy. He also has his own show on the channel EMT which is broadcast on Sunday nights, as well as being a columnist for the Herald Sun. He has worked as a journalist, sports broadcaster and business entrepreneur. McGuire has hosted the Nine Network's The AFL Footy Show, the Australian version of game shows Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and 1 vs. 100. He is a former CEO of the Nine Network, resigning on 30 June 2007. He returned to commentating Friday night football in August 2007 when he began a new contract with Melbourne radio station SEN 1116 to commentate one match a round.

Sandy Roberts (born 22 February 1950) is the weeknight sports presenter of Seven News Melbourne.

Roberts grew up on a sheep farm in Lucindale, South Australia. After completing school he moved to Adelaide where he worked as a sports writer for the Adelaide Advertiser. Roberts also worked in Perth, Bendigo and overseas before he joined the Seven Network in Melbourne as a presenter, sports analyst, host and commentator.

In his time with the Seven Network, Roberts has commentated over 700 AFL games, commentated for the Australian Open, Spring Racing Carnival and many major golf tournaments. Roberts has also been involved in the coverage of every Summer Olympic Games from Moscow in 1980, including Sydney 2000, Beijing 2008 as well as many Winter Olympic Games. He joined Seven News Melbourne in 2005 after Beverley O'Connor stepped down. Roberts follows the St Kilda Football Club.

Despite this impressive resume, Roberts is often remembered for his gaffe in introducing the 1981 Miss Australia, Leanne Dick as "Leanne Cock" during a Mount Gambier Cup meeting. (Ironically, Dick's surname after marriage is Cockerill).