The 1983 Australian Football Championships was an Australian football series between representative teams of the three major football states. Games involving Victoria were played under State of Origin rules, whilst the match between Western Australia and South Australia involved players based in their respective states at the time. The competition was won by Western Australia.
Results
Game 1
! Home team ! Home team score ! Away team ! Away team score ! Ground ! Crowd ! Date ! Time ! Broadcast Network |- style="background:#fff;" | South Australia | 26.16 (172) | Victoria | 17.14 (116) | Football Park | 42,521 | 16 May 1983 | | Seven
Fos Williams Medal: Michael Aish (South Australia)
Game 2
! Home team ! Home team score ! Away team ! Away team score ! Ground ! Crowd ! Date ! Time ! Broadcast Network |- style="background:#fff;" | Western Australia | 20.14 (134) | South Australia | 16.14 (110) | Subiaco Oval | | 4 June 1983 | |Seven
Simpson Medal: Stephen Michael (Western Australia) Fos Williams Medal: Craig Williams (South Australia)
Game 3
! Home team ! Home team score ! Away team ! Away team score ! Ground ! Crowd ! Date ! Time ! Broadcast Network |- style="background:#fff;" | Western Australia | 16.22 (118) | Victoria | 16.19 (115) | Subiaco Oval | 44,213 | 12 July 1983 | | Seven
Simpson Medal: Maurice Rioli (Western Australia) Tassie Medal: Stephen Michael (Western Australia)
Standings
All-Australian Team Following completion of the series, the best players over the three games were selected in the All-Australian team.
Squads Western Australia South Australia Victoria Coach/es: John Todd Captain/s: Stephen Michael Vice Captain/s: Deputy Captain/s: vs South Australia and Victoria Stephen Michael (South Fremantle) Wayne Blackwell (Claremont) Phil Cronan (West Perth) Paul Harding (East Fremantle) Don Langsford (Swan Districts) Warren Ralph (Claremont) Murray Rance (Swan Districts) Tony Solin (Swan Districts) vs South Australia Michael Aitken (Claremont) Craig Edwards (East Perth) Shane Ellis (East Fremantle) Les Fong (West Perth) Steve Goulding (Claremont) Ray Holden (West Perth) John Ironmonger (East Perth) Stan Magro (East Perth) Michael Mitchell (Claremont) Phil Narkle (Swan Districts) Darrell Panizza (Claremont) Willie Roe (South Fremantle) Peter Thorne (East Perth) vs Victoria Rod Barrett (South Fremantle) Ron Boucher (Swan Districts) Peter Bosustow (Perth) Gary Buckenara (Subiaco) Tony Buhagiar (Essendon) Ross Glendinning (North Melbourne) Gary Malarkey (Geelong) Andrew Purser (Footscray) Mike Richardson (Collingwood) Maurice Rioli (Richmond) Garry Sidebottom (Fitzroy) Kevin Taylor (East Fremantle)Coach: Bob Hammond Captain/s: Russell Ebert Vice Captain/s: Deputy Captain/s: vs Victoria and Western Australia Russell Ebert (Port Adelaide) Michael Aish (Norwood) Craig Bradley (Port Adelaide) Tony Giles (Port Adelaide) Stephen Kernahan (Glenelg) Bruce Lindner (West Adelaide) Greg McAdam (North Adelaide) Garry McIntosh (Norwood) Peter Motley (Sturt) John Riley (North Adelaide) Daryl Schimmelbusch (West Torrens) John Schneebichler (South Adelaide) Keith Thomas (Norwood) Craig Williams (West Adelaide) vs Victoria Stephen Copping (Essendon) Neil Craig (Sturt) Mark Naley (South Adelaide) Greg Phillips (Port Adelaide) John Platten (Central District) Matt Rendell (West Torrens) Greg Whittlesea (Sturt) vs Western Australia Andrew Aish (Norwood) Stephen Curtis (Port Adelaide) Rick Davies (Sturt) Danny Jenkins (Norwood) Tony McGuinness (Glenelg) Frank Spiel (Sturt) Did not play Bruce Abernethy (North Melbourne)Coach: David Parkin Captain/s: Robert Flower Vice Captain/s: Terry Daniher Deputy Captain/s: vs South Australia and Western Australia Robert Flower (Melbourne) Terry Daniher (Sydney) Geoff Cunningham (St Kilda) Steven Icke (Melbourne) Simon Madden (Essendon) Stephen McCann (North Melbourne) vs South Australia Rod Ashman (Carlton) Neil Clarke (Essendon) Neil Cordy (Footscray) Jim Edmond (Footscray) Robert Elphinstone (St Kilda) Glenn Hawker (Essendon) Grant Lawrie (Fitzroy) Alex Marcou (Carlton) Peter McConville (Carlton) John Mossop (Geelong) Barry Rowlings (Richmond) Laurie Serafini (Fitzroy) Ken Sheldon (Carlton) Greg Smith (Sydney) Brian Wilson (Melbourne) Mark Yeates (Geelong) vs Western Australia Mark Browning (Sydney) Jim Buckley (Carlton) Michael Conlan (Fitzroy) David Dench (North Melbourne) Des English (Carlton) Russell Greene (Hawthorn) Keith Greig (North Melbourne) Wayne Johnston (Carlton) Peter Knights (Hawthorn) Mark Lee (Richmond) Geoff Raines (Collingwood) Brian Royal (Footscray) Michael Tuck (Hawthorn) Terry Wallace (Hawthorn) Tim Watson (Essendon) Dale Weightman (Richmond) Did not play Greg Burns (St Kilda) Peter Daicos (Collingwood) Gary Dempsey (North Melbourne) Bernie Quinlan (Fitzroy) Les Parish (Fitzroy) David Rhys-Jones (Sydney) Wayne Schimmelbusch (North Melbourne)
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