Grand final of the 1988 Victorian Football League season
Australian rules football match
1988 VFL Grand Final
Hawthorn
Melbourne
22.20 (152)
6.20 (56)
1
2
3
4
HAW
4.4 (28)
10.9 (69)
14.16 (100)
22.20 (152)
MEL
1.5 (11)
2.8 (20)
5.14 (44)
6.20 (56)
Date
24 September 1988
Stadium
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia
Favourite
Hawthorn
Accolades
Norm Smith Medallist
Gary Ayres (Hawthorn)
Jock McHale Medallist
Alan Joyce
Broadcast in Australia
Network
Seven Network
Commentators
Peter Landy (host) Dennis Cometti (commentator) Drew Morphett (commentator) Malcolm Blight (expert commentator) Don Scott (boundary rider) Bernie Quinlan (boundary rider) Peter McKenna (analyst) Ian Robertson (analyst)
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The 1988 VFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Hawthorn Football Club and the Melbourne Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 24 September 1988. It was the 92nd annual Grand Final of the Victorian Football League, staged to determine the premiers for the 1988 VFL season. The match, attended by 93,754 spectators, was won by Hawthorn by a margin of 96 points, marking that club's seventh premiership victory.
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