1987 VFL season
Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date
West Coast 15.17 ( 107 ) Carlton 15.14 ( 104 ) WACA Ground 21,780 10 July 1987
Hawthorn 25.12 ( 162 ) Footscray 9.11 ( 65 ) Princes Park 14,429 11 July 1987
North Melbourne 11.13 ( 79 ) Geelong 27.14 ( 176 ) MCG 20,880 18 July 1987
St Kilda 18.6 ( 114 ) Melbourne 9.14 ( 68 ) VFL Park 20,354 18 July 1987
Richmond 18.20 ( 128 ) Collingwood 14.5 ( 89 ) MCG 24,793 25 July 1987
Fitzroy 17.29 ( 131 ) Brisbane Bears 16.10 ( 106 ) Princes Park 5,824 25 July 1987
Sydney 36.20 ( 236 ) Essendon 11.7 ( 73 ) SCG 24,199 26 July 1987
Premiership season -- Rounds 16 and 17
Rounds 16 and 17 were played concurrently over three weekends : five matches were played on the weekends of 11 and 18 July , and four matches were played on the weekend of 25 July . This fixturing effectively gave each team one bye during the three-week period . However , the matches are still grouped into two complete rounds rather than three partial rounds , which results in a chronological anomaly in which six teams played their Round 17 matches before their Round 16 matches . Round 16 Home team Home team score Away team Away team score Venue Crowd Date Essendon 21.11 ( 137 ) Richmond 12.11 ( 83 ) Windy Hill 13,590 11 July 1987 North Melbourne 23.18 ( 156 ) Fitzroy 19.9 ( 123 ) MCG 15,244 11 July 1987 Brisbane Bears 14.9 ( 93 ) St Kilda 18.13 ( 121 ) Carrara Stadium 9,106 12 July 1987 Collingwood 5.13 ( 43 ) Hawthorn 25.18 ( 168 ) Victoria Park 17,329 18 July 1987 Carlton 20.13 ( 133 ) Footscray 12.6 ( 78 ) Princes Park 19,259 18 July 1987 Sydney 30.21 ( 201 ) West Coast 10.11 ( 71 ) SCG 23,009 19 July 1987 Melbourne 18.9 ( 117 ) Geelong 11.11 ( 77 ) VFL Park 15,253 25 July 1987 Round 17
The 1987 Victorian Football League season was the 91st season of the elite Australian rules football competition. Two new clubs joined the competition in 1987, West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears.