1984 VFL season
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1984 VFL Premiership season | |
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Teams | 12 |
Premiers | Essendon (13th premiership) |
Minor premiers | Essendon (11th minor premiership) |
Night series | Essendon (2nd Night series win) |
Matches played | 138 |
Attendance | 3,394,571 (24,598 per match) |
Highest attendance | 92,685 |
Coleman Medallist | Bernie Quinlan Fitzroy (104 goals) |
Brownlow Medallist | Peter Moore Melbourne (24 votes) |
The 1984 VFL season was the 88th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 31 March until 29 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 Essendon Football Club for the 13th time, after it defeated Hawthorn by 24 points in the 1984 VFL Grand Final.
Night series[edit]
Essendon defeated Sydney 13.11 (89) to 5.8 (38) in the final.
Premiership season[edit]
Round 1[edit]
Round 2[edit]
Round 3[edit]
Round 4[edit]
Round 5[edit]
Round 6[edit]
Round 7[edit]
Round 8[edit]
Round 9[edit]
Round 10[edit]
Round 11[edit]
Round 12[edit]
Round 13[edit]
Round 14[edit]
Round 15[edit]
Round 16[edit]
Round 17[edit]
Round 18[edit]
Round 19[edit]
Round 20[edit]
Round 21[edit]
Round 22[edit]
Ladder[edit]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | D | PF | PA | PP | Pts | |
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1 | Essendon (P) | 22 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2556 | 1994 | 128.2 | 72 | Finals |
2 | Hawthorn | 22 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 2724 | 2069 | 131.7 | 68 | |
3 | Carlton | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2332 | 2014 | 115.8 | 52 | |
4 | Collingwood | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 2260 | 2072 | 109.1 | 52 | |
5 | Fitzroy | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2405 | 2345 | 102.6 | 44 | |
6 | Geelong | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2112 | 2239 | 94.3 | 44 | |
7 | Footscray | 22 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 1992 | 2123 | 93.8 | 44 | |
8 | Richmond | 22 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 2157 | 2373 | 90.9 | 40 | |
9 | Melbourne | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 2328 | 2233 | 104.3 | 36 | |
10 | Sydney | 22 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 2223 | 2522 | 88.1 | 36 | |
11 | North Melbourne | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 2174 | 2661 | 81.7 | 20 | |
12 | St Kilda | 22 | 5 | 17 | 0 | 1904 | 2522 | 75.5 | 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 series[edit]
Week one[edit]
Qualifying final | |||||
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Saturday, 8 September (2:30 pm) | Hawthorn 18.14 (122) | def. | Carlton 13.14 (92) | VFL Park (crowd: 55,947) | Report |
Elimination final | |||||
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Sunday, 9 September (2:30 pm) | Collingwood 23.15 (153) | def. | Fitzroy 15.17 (107) | MCG (crowd: 73,994) | Report |
Week two[edit]
Semi-finals | |||||
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SF1: Saturday, 15 September (2:30 pm) | Carlton 14.9 (93) | def. by | Collingwood 17.16 (118) | VFL Park (crowd: 70,634) | Report |
SF2: Sunday, 16 September (2:30 pm) | Essendon 15.15 (105) | def. by | Hawthorn 16.17 (113) | MCG (crowd: 76,514) | Report |
Week three[edit]
Preliminary final | |||||
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Saturday, 22 September (2:30 pm) | Essendon 28.6 (174) | def. | Collingwood 5.11 (41) | VFL Park (crowd: 73,550) | Report |
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Week four[edit]
Grand final | |||||
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Saturday, 29 September (2:50 pm) | Essendon 14.21 (105) | def. | Hawthorn 12.9 (81) | MCG (crowd: 92,685) | Report |
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Awards[edit]
- The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Peter Moore of 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 Russell Greene of Hawthorn.
- The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Billy Duckworth of Essendon.
- The wooden spoon was "awarded" to St Kilda.
- North Melbourne 17.19 (121) defeated Richmond 7.11 (53) in the under 19's grand final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Reserves Grand final on 29 September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
- Melbourne 11.15 (81) defeated Carlton 6.9 (45) in the Reserves Grand final, held as a curtain-raiser to the Grand final on 29 September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.[1]
Notable events[edit]
- Fitzroy became the only side to make the finals after winning only one of its first nine games.
- Essendon's 133-point win over Collingwood in the Preliminary Final is the largest win in any VFL/AFL final and the first 100-point loss by Collingwood since 1943 when they were depleted by war.
- In Round 17, shocking weather saw the lowest aggregate score for a round since 1961, with a combined total of only 577 points or an approximate average score of 6.12 (48).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Match details". The Sun News-Pictorial. Melbourne. 1 October 1984. p. 38.
Bibliography[edit]
- Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897–1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0-670-90526-7.