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Encyclopedia > 1980 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1980. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...


See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list. AFL Logo This page is a chronological listing of Australian Football League premiers. ...

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Grand Final

Richmond defeated Collingwood 23.21 (159) to 9.24 (78), in front of a crowd of 113461 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, and the players wear black and white striped guernseys, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... High marking is a key skill and spectator attribute of Aussie Rules Precise field and goal kicking using the oval shaped ball is the key skill in Aussie Rules Football Australian rules football, also known as Australian football, Aussie rules, or simply football or footy is a code of football...


Ladder

Team Won Lost Draw For Against % Points
1 Geelong 17 5 0 2362 1888 125.1 68
2 Carlton 17 5 0 2576 2128 121.0 68
3 Richmond 16 5 1 2754 1990 134.4 66
4 North Melbourne 14 7 1 2345 1894 123.8 58
5 Collingwood 14 7 1 2491 2178 114.4 58
6 South Melbourne 13 9 0 2211 2174 101.7 52
7 Essendon 10 12 0 2268 2151 105.4 40
8 Hawthorn 10 12 0 2249 2381 94.4 40
9 Melbourne 5 17 0 2140 2709 79.0 20
10 Footscray 5 17 0 2056 2737 75.1 20
11 St Kilda 4 16 2 1872 2704 69.2 20
12 Fitzroy 4 17 1 2398 2788 86.0 18

The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League with a rich history. ... Carlton Football Club, nicknamed The Blues, is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. ... Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies, and the players wear black and white striped guernseys, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... Sydney Swans is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of the Australian Football League. ... Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed The Hawks, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ... Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ... The Western Bulldogs, formerly known, and occasionally still referred to, as the Footscray Football Club, is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based at the Whitten Oval in Footscray, an inner western suburb of Melbourne. ... St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... The Fitzroy Football Club, latterly known as the Lions, was formed in 1883 and was a foundation member club of the Victorian Football League on its inception in 1897. ...

Notes

Michael Roach (born October 5, 1958) is a former Australian rules football player. ... The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... The Charles Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal and colloquially as Charlie, is the medal awarded to the best and fairest player in the Australian Football League during the regular season (ie not including finals matches) as decided upon by umpires. ... Kelvin Templeton (born September 30, 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer. ...

References

  • Stephen Rogers and Ashley Brown (1998). Every Game Ever Played. 6th ed. Victoria: Penguin Books.


 
 

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