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The 2006 NRL season was the 99th season of professional rugby league football in Australia and the ninth run by the National Rugby League. The lineup of teams remained unchanged from the previous year, with fifteen clubs competing for the 2006 Telstra Premiership .
The 2006 grand final was the first ever to feature teams which were both from cities outside the borders of New South Wales, in this case the capitals of Queensland and Victoria, yet was played at the traditional venue of Sydney's Telstra Stadium. [1] It was the first time the two sides had met in a grand final.
This is a list of all the grand finals that were played to decide those premierships. Between 1912 and 1925, and again in 1937, the premiership was decided on a first-past-the-post basis, with a final only played if two teams finished with an equal amount of competition points. This happened in 1916, 1922, 1923 and 1924.
The 2024 National Rugby League finals series will be a tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2024 Telstra Premiership season. The series will be played over four weekends in September and October, culminating in the 2024 NRL Grand Final on 6 October 2024. The top eight teams from the 2024 NRL season qualified for the finals series.
The NRL Grand Final is an annual rugby league match to determine the premiers of every National Rugby League season. It is a major sport event in Australia and regarded as the biggest showcase of rugby league football in the world. Since 1999, it has been contested at Stadium Australia in Sydney. [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. Australian rugby league season Rugby league season 2024 National Rugby League Duration 2 March [a] – 6 October 2024 Teams 17 Premiers Penrith Panthers (6th title) Minor premiers Melbourne Storm (6th title) Matches played 213 Points scored 9,964 Average attendance 20,611 Attendance ...
The 2020 grand final was the Storm's last grand final appearance as well as their most recent premiership victory. The 2020 match would also be the Penrith Panthers' first of now five-straight grand final appearances, which accomplishes a new record in the NRL competition era, and was last achieved by the South Sydney Rabbitohs in 1971.
Up until 1954 a 'grand final' match was only held if the minor premiers were beaten. [11] The adoption of the VFL's Page–McIntyre system for the 1954 NSWRFL season meant for the first time grand finals would become necessary every season, so the term grand final has become used to describe all premiership deciders.