1988 VFL season

1988 VFL premiership season
Teams14
PremiersHawthorn
7th premiership
Minor premiersHawthorn
6th minor premiership
pre-season cupHawthorn
1st pre-season cup win
Brownlow MedallistGerard Healy (Sydney)
Coleman MedallistJason Dunstall (Hawthorn)
Attendance
Matches played160
Total attendance3,528,878 (22,055 per match)
Highest93,754 (Grand Final, Hawthorn vs. Melbourne)
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The 1988 VFL season was the 92nd 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 2 April until 24 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.

The premiership was won by the Hawthorn Football Club for the seventh time, after it defeated Melbourne by 96 points in the 1988 VFL Grand Final.