1983 VFL season

Infobox VFL Premiership Season
year = 1983


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teams = 12
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top goal scorer = Bernie Quinlan (AFL Fit)
brownlow medalist = Ross Glendinning (AFL Nor)Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1983.

Night Series

AFL Car defeated AFL Ric 14.16 (100) to 10.6 (66) in the Final.

Premiership 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

All teams played 22 games during the home and away season, for a total of 132. An additional 6 games were played during the finals series.

Finals

Elimination Finals

Qualifying Final

emi Finals

Preliminary Final

Grand Final

Attendance

A total of 3,631,042 people attended VFL matches during the 1983 season, an average of about 26,312 per game (including finals matches). A combined total of 420,439 attended finals matches in 1983, an average of 70,073 per finals match. The largest attendance for a home and away game was Richmond versus Collingwood at the MCG, the attendance figure was 81,966.

Awards

* The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Ross Glendinning of North 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 Terry Daniher of Essendon.
* The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Colin Robertson of Hawthorn.
* The Wooden Spoon was awarded to St Kilda.

ee also

* Early VFL Final systems
* Page-McIntyre "Final Four" system
* McIntyre "Final Five" system

References

* Stephen Rodgers: "Every Game Ever Played" VFL/AFL Results 1897-1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0 670 90526 7.
* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/seas/1983.html 1983 Season - AFL Tables]