| 1983 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 12 |
| Premiers | Hawthorn 5th premiership |
| Minor premiers | North Melbourne 3rd minor premiership |
| Night series | Carlton 1st Night series win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Ross Glendinning North Melbourne (24 votes) |
| Coleman Medallist | Bernie Quinlan Fitzroy (106 goals) |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 138 |
| Total attendance | 3,638,017 (26,362 per match) |
| Highest | 110,332 |
The 1983 VFL season was the 87th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.
The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 26 March until 24 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.
Before the season, the South Melbourne Football Club, which had played its home games in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1982, formally relocated its operations to Sydney and was renamed the Sydney Swans.
The Hawthorn Football Club won the premiership for the fifth time after it defeated Essendon by 83 points in the 1983 VFL Grand Final.