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The 2026 NRL season will officially launch a week after the Las Vegas double-header featuring the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v St George Illawarra Dragons and Newcastle Knights v North Queensland Cowboys, at Allegiant Stadium.<\/p>\n
The Storm and Eels open Round 1 on Thursday night at AAMI Park. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s followed by a New Zealand Warriors v Roosters-Broncos v Panthers double header on the Friday night including Cherry-Evans\u2019 debut for the Tricolours.<\/p>\n
On the Saturday, the Cronulla Sharks will host the Gold Coast Titans in new coach Josh Hannay\u2019s first game in charge followed by Manly hosting the Canberra Raiders later that night.<\/p>\n
How Madge unlocked Reece Walsh | 00:51<\/p>\n
The Dolphins and South Sydney Rabbitohs close out Round 1 on the Sunday at Suncorp Stadium.<\/p>\n
It comes as the Rabbitohs, Eels, Panthers, Bulldogs and Roosters are all forced to start their seasons on the road due to stadium unavailability, with Accor Stadium and CommBank Stadium set to host the Matildas\u2019 Asia Cup campaign.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Game 1 of the 2026 State of Origin Series will be played at Accor Stadium on Wednesday, May 27.<\/p>\n
Game 2 will be held at the MCG on Wednesday, June 17 and Game 3 at Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday, July 8.<\/p>\n
2026 NRL FIXTURE DETAILS <\/p>\n
NRL in Vegas (February 28)<\/p>\n
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v St George Illawarra Dragons <\/p>\n
Newcastle Knights v North Queensland Cowboys<\/p>\n
Round 1 <\/p>\n
Thursday, February 5<\/p>\n
Melbourne Storm v Paramatta Eels (AAMI Park)<\/p>\n
Friday, February 6 <\/p>\n
New Zealand Warriors v Sydney Roosters (Go Media Stadium)<\/p>\n
Brisbane Broncos v Penrith Panthers (Suncorp Stadium)<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 7<\/p>\n
Cronulla Sharks v Gold Coast Titans (Shark Stadium)<\/p>\n
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles v Raiders (4Pines Stadium)<\/p>\n
Sunday, February 8<\/p>\n
Dolphins v South Sydney Rabbitohs (Suncorp Stadium)<\/p>\n
Jillaroos dominant in Pacific finals | 02:46<\/p>\n
Rivalry match (Round 4)<\/p>\n
Thursday, February 25<\/p>\n
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles v Sydney Roosters (4Pines Stadium)<\/p>\n
State of Origin Series<\/p>\n
Men\u2019s<\/p>\n
Wednesday, May 27<\/p>\n
Game 1 at Accor Stadium<\/p>\n
Wednesday, June 17<\/p>\n
Game 2 at MCG<\/p>\n
Wednesday, July 8<\/p>\n
Game 3 at Suncorp Stadium<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s<\/p>\n
Thursday, April 30<\/p>\n
Game 1 at McDonald Jones Stadium<\/p>\n
Thursday, May 14<\/p>\n
Game 2 at Suncorp Stadium<\/p>\n
Thursday, May 28<\/p>\n
Game 3 at Cbus Super Stadium<\/p>\n
Junior<\/p>\n
Thursday, June 18<\/p>\n
Under-19s State of Origin and Under 19\u2019s Women\u2019s State of Origin at North Sydney Oval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Broncos will begin their premiership defence with a huge test against the Penrith Panthers. Plus the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2095,64,63,4428,82632,161355,4532,4565,4430,82648,161358,161357,763,4612,4556,18387,44183,2623,4601,11735,4466,2627,2613,4495,2041,764,2067,778,158119,4598,52768,34144,13391,161353,33195,161356,4439,85,4563,161354,1080,38445,2614,120999,4604],"class_list":["post-278342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-america","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-broncos-v","tag-brutal-start","tag-canberra-raiders","tag-cronulla-sharks","tag-daly-cherry-evans","tag-dolphins-v","tag-draw-details","tag-fixture-details","tag-fox-league","tag-gold-coast-titans","tag-jason-ryles","tag-josh-hannay","tag-knights-v","tag-las-vegas","tag-manly-sea-eagles","tag-media-stadium","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-nevada","tag-new-zealand-warriors","tag-newcastle-knights","tag-north-america","tag-north-queensland-cowboys","tag-northern-america","tag-origin-series","tag-pacific-championship-final","tag-penrith-panthers","tag-premiership-defence","tag-redcliffe-dolphins","tag-reece-walsh","tag-rivalry-match","tag-season-opener","tag-shark-stadium","tag-south-sydney-rabbitohs","tag-sports","tag-st-george-illawarra-dragons","tag-stadium-unavailability","tag-sydney-roosters","tag-title-defence","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-v-sydney-roosters","tag-zealand-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}