1979 VFL season

Infobox VFL Premiership Season
year = 1979


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teams = 12
premiers = AFL Car
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top goal scorer = Kelvin Templeton (AFL Foo)
brownlow medalist = Peter Moore (AFL Col)Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1979.

Night Series

AFL Col defeated AFL Haw 12.8 (80) to 7.10 (52) in the Final.

Premiership season

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Round 19

Round 20

Round 21

Round 22

Grand Final

Carlton defeated Collingwood 11.16 (82) to 11.11 (77), in front of a crowd of 112845 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).

Ladder

Notes

* The leading goalkicker was Kelvin Templeton of Footscray with 91 goals
* The Brownlow Medal was won by Peter Moore
* The record for greatest winning margin was set twice during 1979.
**In Round 4, Collingwood defeated St Kilda by 178 points, breaking the record set sixty years earlier, in the 1919 VFL season by South Melbourne.
**Collingwood's new record was broken only three months later in Round 17, when Fitzroy defeated Melbourne by 190 points, a record which has yet to be broken at the end of 2007.
* Fitzroy's score of 36.22 (238) in the same game also set the record for highest score in a VFL/AFL game. This beat the record set by Footscray in the 1978 VFL season by twenty-five points, and remained the record for 13 years (i.e., until the 1992 AFL season).

ee also

* Early VFL Final systems
* Page-McIntyre "Final Four" system
* McIntyre "Final Five" system

References

* Stephen Rogers and Ashley Brown (1998). "Every Game Ever Played". 6th ed. Victoria: Penguin Books.
* [http://stats.rleague.com/afl/seas/1979.html 1979 Season - AFL Tables]