1983 VFL season

Night series

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

Ladder

Finals

Elimination Finals

Qualifying Final

Semi Finals

Preliminary Final

Grand Final

Attendance

Awards

• The Brownlow Medal was awarded to Ross Glendinning of North Melbourne.
• The Coleman Medal was awarded to Bernie Quinlan of Fitzroy.
• The VFL Players Association MVP Award, now known as the Leigh Matthews Trophy, was awarded to Terry Daniher of Essendon.
• The Norm Smith Medal was awarded to Colin Robertson of Hawthorn.
• The “Wooden Spoon” was “awarded” to St Kilda.
• The reserves premiership was won by. Essendon 19.14 defeated 15.9 in the Grand Final, held as a curtain-raiser to the seniors Grand Final on 24 September.

  Notable events

• In Round 4, St Kilda played Paul Morwood and Silvio Foschini without their clearances from the Sydney Swans being finalised. Had they beaten Geelong, they would have forfeited the points under the laws at the time.
• North Melbourne's 150-point loss to Fitzroy in Round 13 more than doubled the previous biggest loss by a minor premier of 69 points, which had occurred in 1952 and 1974.
• In Fitzroy's Round 17 game with St Kilda, a record quarter aggregate of 19.7 – Fitzroy 12.6, St. Kilda 7.1 — was kicked during the second quarter.
• In Round 19, Kevin Bartlett became the first player to play 400 VFL games, after having in Round 11 of 1981 become the first to reach 350 games. As of 2015, only Michael Tuck, Dustin Fletcher and Brent Harvey have since equalled his achievement.