1988 VFL season

1988 VFL Premiership season
Teams	14
Premiers	Hawthorn (7th premiership)
Minor premiers	Hawthorn (6th minor premiership)
Pre-season Cup	Hawthorn (1st Pre-season Cup win)
Matches played	160
Attendance	3,528,878 (22,055 per match)
Highest attendance	93,754 (Grand Final, Hawthorn v Melbourne)
Coleman Medallist	Jason Dunstall (Hawthorn)
Brownlow Medallist	Gerard Healy (Sydney)
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The 1988 Victorian Football League season was the 92nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition. This season commenced in April 1988 and concluded on 24 September 1988, with Hawthorn winning their seventh Premiership in their sixth consecutive Grand Final appearance.

Hawthorn 10.10 (70) defeated Geelong 9.13 (67) in the Night Series, which for the first time was played entirely as a pre-season competition, rather than a concurrent competition to the Premiership season.

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