{"id":285049,"date":"2025-11-15T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285049\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T00:28:10","slug":"nrl-2026-titans-2026-nrl-draw-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285049\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL 2026: Titans, 2026 NRL draw snapshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Titans fans won&#8217;t have to worry about any early round byes next season with action aplenty in the opening rounds of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The start includes three big Queensland showdowns to kickstart the rivalry in the XXXX Derby, alongside new coach Josh Hannay facing his former side Cronulla in the side&#8217;s opener.<\/p>\n<p>Only facing five of the last season&#8217;s top eight once next season, Gold Coast will also knock out a majority of their travel early in the season &#8211; at home for six of their eight remaining games of the year.<\/p>\n<p>They are also eager to take down some handy opposition to help build into a desired finals berth under the new leadership with teams like Panthers, Warriors and Rabbitohs coming to the Coast again next season.<\/p>\n<p>See below for a full breakdown of the 2026 draw.<\/p>\n<p>From a single game to the whole season and everything in between&#8230; there is a seat in the Legion fit for you!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/titans.com.au\/membership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO SEE 2026 MEMBERSHIP PACKAGES!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teams they play twice<\/p>\n<p>Home and away fixtures await the Titans with all three of their Queensland rivals in a bid to retain the XXXX Derby Trophy against the Dolphins, Cowboys and Broncos; while they&#8217;ll also take on the Warriors, Knights, Dragons, Sharks and Sea Eagles on two occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Teams they play once<\/p>\n<p>The Titans will only have to face off against premiership powerhouses Panthers, Roosters and Storm once &#8211; two of those matches being away from home.<\/p>\n<p>They do avoid the trip to Canberra with the Raiders travelling to Cbus Super Stadium in Round 9 for the only matchup in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Hannay&#8217;s men will also play the Eels (A), Wests Tigers (A), Bulldogs (H) and Rabbitohs (H) once too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Timeslot breakdown<\/p>\n<p>Turnaround time<\/p>\n<p>5 days:\u00a01 game<br \/>6 days: 8 games<br \/>7+ days:\u00a014 games<\/p>\n<p>The Titans only have one five-day turnaround in 2026 but will spend that at home with back-to-back games &#8211; against the Warriors on Saturday, August 1 before playing the<\/p>\n<p>Their majority of weekend games see 14 fixtures with a 7+ day turnaround and the three byes are evenly distributed across Rounds 8, 12 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Opening month<\/p>\n<p>Round 1: v Sharks (A)<br \/>Round 2: v Dolphins (A)<br \/>Round 3: v Cowboys (A)<br \/>Round 4: v Dragons (H)<\/p>\n<p>With Cbus Super Stadium unavailable due to the AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup, the Titans will be on the road for the first three weeks with a big opener against Hannay&#8217;s former side Cronulla in week one, followed by two Queensland derbies against the Dolphins and Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll then get the chance to square off against the Red V at home in Round 4 to round-out a big opening month, ahead of a massive Macca&#8217;s Local Derby clash against defending premiers Brisbane in Round 5.<\/p>\n<p>State of Origin watch<\/p>\n<p>The Titans will have two games that will be affected by Origin with their Round 12 trip to Manly set to miss the likes of Tino Fa&#8217;asuamaleaui and Moeaki Fotuaika who will likely be in Camp Maroon. They won&#8217;t require to back-up though with a bye in Round 13.<\/p>\n<p>That will also be the case for Round 16 v Panthers at home, but the visitors will also be missing several of their stars with the club always having a high Origin representation.<\/p>\n<p>Round 18 will be unaffected with the Titans having the bye ahead of the series decider.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t miss game<br \/>\nRound 22 v Warriors<\/p>\n<p>The Titans have gotten the wood over their Trans Tasman rivals the past few years, although the Wahs did seek their revenge in last year&#8217;s battle, which sets up an epic showdown at Cbus Super Stadium in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Every Titans v Warriors clash is a box office battle with plenty of support for both teams in the grandstands and the opposition now have a number of former Titans including Tanah Boyd, Erin Clark and now Alofiana Khan-Pereira who made the off-season transfer abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the memories of that record 66-6 victory two seasons ago, circle this game in the calendar as the one not to be missed, among a number of other notable mentions, including the Macca&#8217;s Local Derby against Brisbane in Round 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titans fans won&#8217;t have to worry about any early round byes next season with action aplenty in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-285049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285049","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=285049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}