1987 VFL season
| 1987 VFL Premiership season | |
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| Teams | 14 |
| Premiers |
Carlton (15th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
Carlton (16th minor premiership) |
| Night series |
Melbourne (1st Night series win) |
| Matches played | 160 |
| Attendance | 3,411,846 (21,324 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 92,754 (Grand Final, Carlton v Hawthorn) |
| Coleman Medallist | Tony Lockett (St Kilda) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Tony Lockett (St Kilda) John Platten (Hawthorn) |
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The 1987 Victorian Football League season was the 91st season of the elite Australian rules football competition. Two new clubs joined the competition in 1987, West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears.
Melbourne defeated Essendon 8.10 (58) to 8.6 (54) in the Final at Waverley Park.
Rounds 16 and 17 were played concurrently over three weekends: five matches were played on the weekends of 11 and 18 July, and four matches were played on the weekend of 25 July. This fixturing effectively gave each team one bye during the three-week period. However, the matches are still grouped into two complete rounds rather than three partial rounds, which results in a chronological anomaly in which six teams played their Round 17 matches before their Round 16 matches.
Abbreviation guide: Gms=Games played in the season, Gls/Bhds=Goals and behinds kicked, Acc%=Accuracy percentage (Goals divided by Goals + Behinds multiplied by 100), GpM=Average goals per match
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