| 1982 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers | Carlton 14th premiership |
| Minor premiers | Richmond 8th minor premiership |
| Night series | Swans 1st Night series win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Brian Wilson Melbourne (23 votes) |
| Coleman Medallist | Malcolm Blight North Melbourne (94 goals) |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 138 |
| Total attendance | 3,681,556 (26,678 per match) |
| Highest | 107,536 |
The 1982 VFL season was the 86th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 20 March until 25 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.
The season saw the VFL establish its first permanent interstate presence, as the South Melbourne Football Club (which was known after June just as the Swans, being renamed Sydney the following year) played all of its home games on Sunday afternoons in Sydney, New South Wales.
The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the 14th time and second time consecutively, after it defeated Richmond by 18 points in the VFL grand final.