1978 VFL season
Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date
Footscray 17.10 ( 112 ) Hawthorn 17.16 ( 118 ) Western Oval 17,285 5 August 1978
Fitzroy 11.16 ( 82 ) North Melbourne 19.10 ( 124 ) Junction Oval 13,022 5 August 1978
Essendon 11.16 ( 82 ) St Kilda 18.13 ( 121 ) Windy Hill 18,410 5 August 1978
Carlton 14.19 ( 103 ) Collingwood 8.14 ( 62 ) Princes Park 43,313 5 August 1978
Melbourne 13.17 ( 95 ) Geelong 14.17 ( 101 ) MCG 12,363 5 August 1978
South Melbourne 14.9 ( 93 ) Richmond 9.16 ( 70 ) VFL Park 31,717 5 August 1978
Premiership season -- Round 18
The 1978 Victorian Football League season was the 82nd season of the elite Australian rules football competition.