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1984 VFL season

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Highest attendance
  
92,685

Teams
  
12

Matches played
  
138

Start date
  
1984

Attendance
  
3,394,571

Premiers
  
Essendon (13th premiership)

Minor premiers
  
Essendon (11th minor premiership)

Night series
  
Essendon (2nd Night series win)

Coleman Medallist
  
Bernie Quinlan Fitzroy (104 goals)

Brownlow Medallist
  
Peter Moore Melbourne (24 votes)

Similar
  
1947 VFL season, 1929 VFL season, 1934 VFL season, 1931 VFL season, 1946 VFL season

The 1984 Victorian Football League season was the 88th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Contents

Night Series

Essendon defeated Sydney 13.11 (89) to 5.8. (38) in the Final.

Awards

  • 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.
  • The reserves premiership was won by Melbourne. Melbourne 11.15 (81) defeated Carlton 6.9 (45) in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors Grand Final on 29 September.

    • Notable events

  • 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).

    • References

    1984 VFL season Wikipedia
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