1987 VFL season

1987 VFL premiership season
Teams14
PremiersCarlton
15th premiership
Minor premiersCarlton
16th minor premiership
Night seriesMelbourne
1st Night series win
Brownlow MedallistTony Lockett (St Kilda)
John Platten (Hawthorn)
Coleman MedallistTony Lockett (St Kilda)
Attendance
Matches played160
Total attendance3,411,846 (21,324 per match)
Highest92,754 (Grand Final, Carlton vs. Hawthorn)
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The 1987 VFL season was the 91st season of the Victorian Football League (VFL). The season ran from 27 March until 26 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.

The season saw the beginning of a decade-long period of expansion of the Victorian league to the rest of Australia, with the admission of two newly established clubs: the West Coast Eagles, based in Perth, Western Australia, and the Brisbane Bears, based in South East Queensland. While the league remained the highest level senior Australian rules football competition and administrative body in Victoria, it also became the de facto highest level senior competition in Australia, with representation across four states. In the pre-season, the first modern VFL draft was held.

The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the 15th time, after it defeated Hawthorn by 33 points in the 1987 VFL Grand Final.