1978 VFL season

1978 VFL Premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Hawthorn (4th premiership)
Minor premiers	North Melbourne (2nd minor premiership)
Night series	Fitzroy (1st Night series win)
Matches played	138
Attendance	3,478,015 (25,203 per match)
Highest attendance	101,704
Coleman Medallist	Kelvin Templeton (Footscray)
Brownlow Medallist	Malcolm Blight (North Melbourne)
← 1977 1979 →

The 1978 Victorian Football League season was the 82nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Fitzroy defeated North Melbourne 13.18 (96) to 2.8 (20) in the Final at VFL Park.

Hawthorn defeated North Melbourne 18.13 (121) to 15.13 (103), in front of a crowd of 101704 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football).