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Encyclopedia > 1981 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1981. This article is about the national league in Australian rules football. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the 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

Carlton defeated Collingwood 12.20 (92) to 10.12 (72), in front of a crowd of 112964 people. (For an explanation of scoring see Australian rules football). The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, 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 Carlton 17 5 0 2303 1768 130.3 68
2 Collingwood 17 5 0 2399 1957 122.6 68
3 Geelong 16 6 0 2224 1714 129.8 64
4 Essendon 16 6 0 2323 1821 127.6 64
5 Fitzroy 14 8 0 2413 2152 112.1 56
6 Hawthorn 13 9 0 2313 2114 109.4 52
7 Richmond 13 9 0 2323 2207 105.3 52
8 North Melbourne 10 12 0 2386 2293 104.1 40
9 South Melbourne 8 14 0 2165 2522 85.8 32
10 St Kilda 5 17 0 1930 2266 85.2 20
11 Footscray 2 20 0 1764 2680 65.8 8
12 Melbourne 1 21 0 1824 2873 63.5 4

The Carlton Football Club is the sixth oldest Australian rules football club and the third oldest club in the Australian Football League. ... The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed The Magpies after the black and white striped guernseys worn by the players, is an Australian rules football club, playing in the elite Australian Football League. ... The Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League with a rich history. ... Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club that is part of 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. ... The Hawthorn Hawks known formally as the Tassie Hawks from 07 onwards, are an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League (AFL). ... The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed The Tigers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... The North Melbourne Football Club, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. ... The Sydney Swans is an Australian Football League (AFL) club based in Sydney, New South Wales. ... The St Kilda Football Club, nicknamed The Saints, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League. ... 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. ... The Melbourne Football Club (MFC), nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League, based in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

Notes

Geshe Michael Roach is an American teacher of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Diamond Mountain University. ... 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. ... Bernie Quinlan (born 21 July, 1951), is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who enjoyed a lengthy career with Footscray and Fitzroy in the VFL. He played 366 league games in total. ... Barry Round played for Footscray and South Melbourne/Sydney in the Victorian Football League between 1969 and 1985. ...

References

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