The 1988 Brisbane Rugby League premiership was the 67th season of Brisbane's semi-professional rugby league football competition. Eight teams from across Brisbane competed for the premiership, which culminated in a grand final match between the Fortitude Valley-Tweed and Ipswich clubs.
Season summary A new team, the Logan Scorpions, were admitted to the competition, bringing its total to ten teams. Teams played each other three times, with 21 rounds of competition played. It resulted in a top five of Southern Suburbs, Eastern Suburbs, Seagulls-Diehards and Ipswich.
Teams
Club Home ground Coach Captain Eastern Suburbs Langlands Park Des Morris Fortitude Valley-Tweed Neumann Oval Ross Henrick Peter Coyne Ipswich North Ipswich Reserve Tommy Raudonikis Logan Meakin Park John Barber Northern Suburbs Bishop Park Greg Oliphant Past Brothers Brisbane Corbett Park Greg Holben Redcliffe Dolphin Oval Graham Olling Southern Suburbs Davies Park Geoff Naylor Western Suburbs Purtell Park Barry Muir Wynnum-Manly Kougari Oval John Dowling
Ladder TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts1 Southern Suburbs181305358314 +44262 Fortitude Valley-Tweed181116431322 +109233 Ipswich181116365275 +90234 Eastern Suburbs181017394277 +117215 Past Brothers Brisbane18927283244 +39206 Northern Suburbs18918317277 +40197 Western Suburbs18918240287 -47198 Redcliffe188010306276 +30169 Wynnum-Manly184014230409 -179810 Logan182115202425 -2235 Source:
Finals HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and TimeVenueRefereeCrowd Semi-finals Ipswich11-10 EasternSuburbs28 August 1988Lang Park Fortitude Valley-Tweed25-14 SouthernSuburbs4 September 1988Lang Park Preliminary Final SouthernSuburbs6-20 Ipswich10 September 1988Lang Park Grand Final Fortitude Valley-Tweed17-14 Ipswich18 September 1988Lang Park
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