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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.
This page details first-grade rugby league records from the National Rugby League (1998-) and its predecessors, the New South Wales Rugby Football League (1908-1994), the Australian Rugby League, (1995-1997), and the Super League (1997).
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.
2000 NRL Grand Final: 90,414 Stadium Australia: Newcastle Knights: 30 – 24: Parramatta Eels: 2001 NRL Grand Final: 83,833 ANZ Stadium: South Sydney Rabbitohs: 30 – 6: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs: 2014 NRL Grand Final: 83,625 ANZ Stadium: Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks: 14 – 12: Melbourne Storm: 2016 NRL Grand Final
The NRL finals system replaced the McIntyre system which was used from 1999 to 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A similar system was previously used by the Australian Rugby League in the 1995 and 1996 seasons; however, there was no crossover in 1995, and in 1996 teams crossed over in Week 2, rather than Week 3.
Due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales the grand final was played outside of Sydney for the first time in competition history, at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium. [1] The top eight teams from the 2021 NRL season qualified for the finals series. NRL finals series have been played under the current format since 2012.
The New South Wales Rugby League ran the major rugby league competition of New South Wales from its inception in 1908 until 1994.Following the introduction of a new format for interstate rugby league, the State of Origin series in 1980, the decade of the 1980s brought about expansion of the NSWRL premiership, with the introduction of commercial sponsorship, the Winfield Cup, and the addition ...
The system used for the 2020 NRL finals series is a final eight system. The top four teams in the eight receive the "double chance" when they play in week-one qualifying finals, such that if a top-four team loses in the first week it still remains in the finals, playing a semi-final the next week against the winner of an elimination final.