1981 VFL season
Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date
Carlton 15.25 ( 115 ) Footscray 5.4 ( 34 ) Princes Park 17,419 27 June 1981
Richmond 21.23 ( 149 ) North Melbourne 15.16 ( 106 ) MCG 31,212 27 June 1981
St Kilda 18.19 ( 127 ) Melbourne 8.7 ( 55 ) Moorabbin Oval 14,058 27 June 1981
South Melbourne 9.16 ( 70 ) Fitzroy 14.9 ( 93 ) Lake Oval 11,756 27 June 1981
Collingwood 13.8 ( 86 ) Geelong 9.14 ( 68 ) VFL Park 50,441 27 June 1981
Hawthorn 20.13 ( 133 ) Essendon 22.19 ( 151 ) The Gabba 20,351 28 June 1981
Premiership season -- Round 14
The 1981 Victorian Football League season was the 85th season of the elite Australian rules football competition.