1979 VFL season

1979 VFL Premiership season
Teams	12
Premiers	Carlton (12th premiership)
Minor premiers	Carlton (14th minor premiership)
Night series	Collingwood (1st Night series win)
Matches played	138
Attendance	3,574,281 (25,901 per match)
Highest attendance	113,545
Coleman Medallist	Kelvin Templeton (Footscray)
Brownlow Medallist	Peter Moore (Collingwood)
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The 1979 Victorian Football League season was the 83rd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.

Collingwood defeated Hawthorn 12.8 (80) to 7.10 (52) in the Final.

Despite being formally a part of Round 3, the Carlton vs Essendon match was played as a stand-alone match on the Saturday before Round 1, and was therefore the opening match of the season.

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).

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