1979 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 final

Qualifying final

Semi finals

Preliminary final

Grand final

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 defeated 9.13 in the grand final, held as a stand-alone night match at VFL Park on Friday, 28 September, before a crowd of 6,047.

  Notable events

• 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 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.