Friday 9 October - BC Place, Vancouver
Crowd - 32,987

Melbourne 3.6, 9.12, 14.15, 20.19.139
Sydney 3.2, 5.3, 10.8, 12.9.81

Melbourne win by 58 points

Goalkickers: Warren Dean 5, Ricky Jackson 4, Dean Chiron 3, Tony Campbell 3, Jim Stynes 2, Greg Healy 2, Graeme Yeats 1, Simon Eishold 1

The biggest crowd outside of Australia ever to watch a VFL match saw Melbourne move into the final of the "Fosters World Challenge" tournament with an easy win over the Swans. The crowd was bigger than local Canadian Football side the BC Lions usually drew to the ground, but the biggest reactions were for a series of brawls.

Sydney played the match in the shadow of the potential sacking of coach Tom Hafey. John Northey admitted roasting his team at half time. He said "We went out and tried to be as vicious as we could, meaning we really went hard for the ball, we went hard for the player".

They qualified to meet North Melbourne in the World Challenge Final a week later.

Best were Dean, Wight, and Spalding. Flower injured his shoulder and Hughes his hand.

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Notes
Vancouver Sun and Toronto Star (11/10/87) both give the crowd as approximately 22,000.

Media
Vancouver Sun - 10/10/1987
Canberra Times - 11/10/1987
Sun - 12/10/1987
Age - 12/10/1987
Age - 15/10/1987