| 1983 VFL Premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers |
Hawthorn (5th premiership) |
| Minor premiers |
North Melbourne (3rd minor premiership) |
| Night series |
Carlton (1st Night series win) |
| Matches played | 138 |
| Attendance | 3,638,017 (26,362 per match) |
| Highest attendance | 110,332 |
| Coleman Medallist |
Bernie Quinlan Fitzroy (106 goals) |
| Brownlow Medallist |
Ross Glendinning North Melbourne (24 votes) |
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The 1983 Victorian Football League season was the 87th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.
Carlton defeated Richmond 14.16 (100) to 10.6 (66) in the Final.
Rounds 12-22 were the home-and-away reverse of Rounds 1-11.
A total of 3,631,042 people attended VFL matches during the 1983 season, an average of about 26,312 per game (including finals matches). A combined total of 420,439 attended finals matches in 1983, an average of 70,073 per finals match. The largest attendance for a home and away game was Richmond versus Collingwood at the MCG, the attendance figure was 81,966.