| 1987 VFL premiership season | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 14 |
| Premiers | Carlton 15th premiership |
| Minor premiers | Carlton 16th minor premiership |
| Night series | Melbourne 1st Night series win |
| Brownlow Medallist | Tony Lockett (St Kilda) John Platten (Hawthorn) |
| Coleman Medallist | Tony Lockett (St Kilda) |
| Attendance | |
| Matches played | 160 |
| Total attendance | 3,411,846 (21,324 per match) |
| Highest | 92,754 (Grand Final, Carlton vs. Hawthorn) |
The 1987 VFL season was the 91st season of the Victorian Football League (VFL). The season ran from 27 March until 26 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs.
The season saw the beginning of a decade-long period of expansion of the Victorian league to the rest of Australia, with the admission of two newly established clubs: the West Coast Eagles, based in Perth, Western Australia, and the Brisbane Bears, based in South East Queensland. While the league remained the highest level senior Australian rules football competition and administrative body in Victoria, it also became the de facto highest level senior competition in Australia, with representation across four states. In the pre-season, the first modern VFL draft was held.
The premiership was won by the Carlton Football Club for the 15th time, after it defeated Hawthorn by 33 points in the 1987 VFL Grand Final.