1988 Brisbane Rugby League season

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.^[1]

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

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Southern Suburbs	18	13	0	5	358	314	+44	26
2	Fortitude Valley-Tweed	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 Brisbane	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]

Home	Score	Away	Match Information
			Date and Time	Venue	Referee	Crowd
Semi-finals
Ipswich	11-10	Eastern Suburbs	28 August 1988	Lang Park
Fortitude Valley- Tweed	25-14	Southern Suburbs	4 September 1988	Lang Park
Preliminary Final
Southern Suburbs	6-20	Ipswich	10 September 1988	Lang Park
Grand Final
Fortitude Valley- Tweed	17-14	Ipswich	18 September 1988	Lang Park

Source:^[3]