1988 Brisbane Rugby League season

Brisbane Rugby League
Sport	Rugby league
Number of teams	8
Country	Australia
Premiers	Seagulls-Diehards

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 Seagulls-Diehards 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 Souths, Easts, Seagulls-Diehards and Ipswich.^[1]

Teams

Club	Home ground	Coach	Captain
Eastern Suburbs	Langlands Park	Des Morris
Seagulls-Diehards	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	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

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Southern Suburbs	18	13	0	5	358	314	+44	26
2	Seagulls-Diehards	18	11	1	6	431	322	+109	23
3	Ipswich	18	11	1	6	365	275	+90	23
4	Eastern Suburbs	18	10	1	7	394	277	+117	21
5	Past Brothers	18	9	2	7	283	244	+39	20
6	Northern Suburbs	18	9	1	8	317	277	+40	19
7	Western Suburbs	18	9	1	8	240	287	-47	19
8	Redcliffe	18	8	0	10	306	276	+30	16
9	Wynnum-Manly	18	4	0	14	230	409	-179	8
10	Logan	18	2	1	15	202	425	-223	5

Source:^[2]

Finals

Home	Score	Away	Match Information
Home	Score	Away	Date and Time	Venue	Referee	Crowd
Semi-finals
Ipswich	11-10	Easts	28 August 1988	Lang Park
Seagulls-Diehards	25-14	Souths	4 September 1988	Lang Park
Preliminary Final
Souths	6-20	Ipswich Jets	10 September 1988	Lang Park
Grand Final
Seagulls-Diehards	17-14	Ipswich Jets	18 September 1988	Lang Park

Source:^[3]

References

^ "The Post-Broncos Brisbane Rugby League Competition - Club football in Brisbane from 1988 to 2021" (PDF). rogerswebsite.com.
^ Waite, Roger (2017). "A history of Brisbane rugby league (1909-2017)" (PDF). rogerswebsite.com. ^{[self-published source]}
^ "Queensland Rugby League". queensland.rleague.com. Archived from the original on 14 February 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2022.

[1] "The Post-Broncos Brisbane Rugby League Competition - Club football in Brisbane from 1988 to 2021" (PDF). rogerswebsite.com.

[2] Waite, Roger (2017). "A history of Brisbane rugby league (1909-2017)" (PDF). rogerswebsite.com. ^{[self-published source]}

[3] "Queensland Rugby League". queensland.rleague.com. Archived from the original on 14 February 2006. Retrieved 19 April 2022.

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