1989 VFL season
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. 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.
| 1989 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 14 |
| Premiers | Hawthorn 8th premiership |
| Minor premiers | Hawthorn 7th minor premiership |
| pre-season cup | Melbourne 1st pre-season cup win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Paul Couch (Geelong) |
| Coleman Medallist | Jason Dunstall (Hawthorn) |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 160 |
| Total attendance | 3,581,822 (22,386 per match) |
| Highest | 94,796 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Geelong) |
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.
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