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1989 VFL season

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1989 VFL premiership season
Teams14
PremiersHawthorn
8th premiership
Minor premiersHawthorn
7th minor premiership
pre-season cupMelbourne
1st pre-season cup win
Brownlow MedallistPaul Couch (Geelong)
Coleman MedallistJason 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.

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
# Team P W L D PF PA % Pts
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

Finals series

Main article: 1989 VFL 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

Main article: 1989 VFL 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

  • In round 6, Hawthorn 26.15 (171) defeated Geelong 25.13 (163). As of 2024, Geelong's score holds the record for the highest losing score in a VFL/AFL match.[5] Hawthorn trailed by as much as 56 points during the match before coming from behind to win.[6]
  • The Tribunal was given extra authority when trial by video was introduced in Round 6. Fitzroy's Michael Conlan and Collingwood's Doug Barwick became the first League players charged by the Commission on video evidence and both were suspended by the Tribunal.[7]
  • The wettest Melbourne winter since 1952[8] saw horrible conditions between Rounds 11 and 13 that produced several unusually low scores:
  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.
  • Geelong set a record for the most points scored in the home-and-away season, 2916. Footscray's season aggregate score of 1614 points was the lowest since 1972.

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
  • Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897–1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0-670-90526-7.

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