1979 VFL season

defeated 12.8 (80) to 7.10 (52) in the final. ==Home-and-away season==

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Despite being formally a part of Round 3, the Essendon vs Carlton match was played as a stand-alone match on the Saturday before Round 1, and was therefore the opening match of the season. 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 Fitzroy's 190 point winning margin is the biggest in AFL/VFL history Round 18 Round 19 Round 20 Round 21 Round 22 ==Ladder==

Rules for classification: 1. premiership points; 2. percentage; 3. points forAverage score: 106.5Source: AFL Tables ==Finals series==

Finals week 1 Finals week 2 Preliminary final Grand final ==Season notes==

• The record for greatest winning margin was set twice during 1979. • In Round 4, Collingwood defeated St Kilda by 178 points, breaking the record set sixty years earlier, in the 1919 VFL season by South Melbourne. • Collingwood's new record was broken only three months later in Round 17, when Fitzroy defeated Melbourne by 190 points, a record which has yet to be broken. • Fitzroy's score of 36.22 (238) in the same game also set the record for highest score in a VFL/AFL game. This beat the record set by Footscray in the 1978 VFL season by twenty-five points, and remained the record until 1992. • Fitzroy made the finals for the first time since 1960, ending a nineteen-year finals drought. ==Awards==

• The leading goalkicker was Kelvin Templeton of Footscray with 91 goals • The Brownlow Medal was won by Peter Moore • The reserves premiership, known as the Commodore Cup, was won by . North Melbourne 13.14 (92) defeated 9.13 (67) in the grand final, held as a stand-alone night match at VFL Park on Friday, 28 September, before a crowd of 6,047. ==See also==