1978 VFA season

1978 VFA Premiership Season
Teams20
Division 1
Teams10
PremiersPrahran
(5th premiership)
Minor premiersPort Melbourne
(12th minor premiership)
Division 2
Teams10
PremiersFrankston
(1st D2 premiership)
Minor premiersFrankston
(2nd D2 minor premiership)
1977
1979

The 1978 Victorian Football Association season was the 97th season of the top division of the Australian rules football competition, and the 18th season of second division competition. The Division 1 premiership was won by the Prahran Football Club, after it defeated Preston in the Grand Final on 24 September by 22 points; it was Prahran's fifth and last Division 1 premiership. The Division 2 premiership was won by Frankston; it is the only Association premiership in either division won by the club to date.