1986 VFL season

The 1986 VFL season was the 90th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 29 March until 27 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.

1986 VFL Premiership season
Teams12
PremiersHawthorn
(6th premiership)
Minor premiersHawthorn
(5th minor premiership)
Night seriesHawthorn
(3rd Night series win)
Matches played138
Attendance3,395,611 (24,606 per match)
Highest attendance101,861
Coleman MedallistBrian Taylor (Collingwood)
Brownlow MedallistGreg Williams (Sydney)
Robert DiPierdomenico (Hawthorn)

The premiership was won by the Hawthorn Football Club for the sixth time, after it defeated Carlton by 42 points in the 1986 VFL Grand Final.

Night Series

Hawthorn defeated Carlton 9.12 (66) to 5.6 (36) 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

This was the round where Brian Taylor kicked his 100th goal of the season.

Ladder
1986 VFL ladder
Pos Team Pld W L D PF PA PP Pts
1 Hawthorn (P) 22 18 4 0 2698 1906 141.6 72 Finals
2 Sydney 22 16 6 0 2470 2087 118.4 64
3 Carlton 22 15 7 0 2566 1809 141.8 60
4 Fitzroy 22 13 9 0 2068 2063 100.2 52
5 Essendon 22 12 10 0 2379 1978 120.3 48
6 Collingwood 22 12 10 0 2261 2070 109.2 48
7 North Melbourne 22 12 10 0 2324 2356 98.6 48
8 Footscray 22 11 11 0 1963 2010 97.7 44
9 Geelong 22 7 15 0 2133 2599 82.1 28
10 Richmond 22 7 15 0 2151 2745 78.4 28
11 Melbourne 22 7 15 0 2003 2673 74.9 28
12 St Kilda 22 2 20 0 1846 2566 71.9 8
Source: VFL ladder
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for.
(P) Premiers

Finals

Elimination Finals

Qualifying Final

Semi Finals

Preliminary Final

Grand Final
Main article: 1986 VFL Grand Final

Awards

Notable events
  • For the first time in VFL/AFL history, two senior games were held at the same venue on the same day with Melbourne hosting Sydney, followed by North Melbourne vs Geelong at the MCG in round 5. Another double header was staged in round 19 at the MCG with Melbourne and North Melbourne again the home teams against Geelong and Footscray respectively. It would be 34 years before this occurred again.
  • In Round 21, Hawthorn led Geelong by only three points at half-time, but then kicked 25.7 (157) to 3.7 (25) in the second half. Hawthorn's final score of 35.15 (225) set a new record as the club's highest score (since surpassed in 1991) and Geelong's highest score conceded (still a record as of 2021), and the margin of 135 points set and holds the record for Geelong's highest losing margin.[2] Hawthorn's 25.7 (157) set and holds the record for highest score by a single team in a half of football.[3]
  • Round 22 was the last round in VFL/AFL history in which all matches were played on the same day.
  • Fitzroy endured serious financial hardships during 1986 which threatened its existence. More than one million dollars in debt, and having posted a $600,000 loss in 1985, the club took a $500,000 loan from the VFL in January 1986, and needed another $500,000 by the end of the year to remain solvent. It fielded offers from two Brisbane-based companies and one Canberra-based company for the club to move north in 1987, and it discussed mergers with Melbourne, St Kilda and Richmond. Despite the off-field struggles, the club reached the preliminary final; it was the last time the club played finals before its merger with Brisbane at the end of 1996.[4]

See also

References
  1. Daryl Timms (29 September 1986). "Blues too experienced". The Sun Grand Final Souvenir. Melbourne. p. 11.
  2. "Hawthorn vs Geelong". AFL Tables. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  3. "Quarters & Halves". AFL Tables. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  4. Martin Flanagan (2 October 1986). "Survival the object in Lions' year of trial". The Age. Melbourne. p. 36.
  • Stephen Rodgers: Every Game Ever Played VFL/AFL Results 1897–1991 3rd Edition 1992. Penguin Books Australia ISBN 0-670-90526-7.
  • 1986 Season - AFL Tables
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