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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 December 2024. 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 2024 NRL season is the 117th of professional rugby league in Australia and the 27th season run by the National Rugby League. All times are listed in AEDT ( UTC+11 ) from Round 1 to games on Saturday of Round 5 including the Grand Final and AEST ( UTC+10 ) from games on Sunday of Round 5 to the Preliminary finals.
The attendance, which saw 67,142 more people attend than had done so for the 1998 NRL Grand Final at the Sydney Football Stadium the year before, broke the record attendance for a grand final by nearly 30,000 people, with the previous record of 78,065 being set in 1965 when St George defeated South Sydney 12–8 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
The system used for the 2024 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.
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.
In the finals series, Nine televise all games including the NRL Grand Final. The State of Origin series is televised exclusively live on the Nine Network, with extensive pre-game and post-game coverage, starting at 7:00 pm. The NRL Grand Final televised exclusively live on the Nine Network. Since 2013, the match has kicked off at 7:30 pm ...
The 2023 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2023 National Rugby League season in Australia. It was contested between the Penrith Panthers and the Brisbane Broncos on Sunday the 1st of October at Accor Stadium in Sydney .
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.