{"id":451123,"date":"2026-02-01T06:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451123\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:53:17","slug":"las-vegas-schedule-confirmed-dragons-vs-bulldogs-to-headline-triple-header","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/451123\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas schedule confirmed, Dragons vs Bulldogs to headline triple-header"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local rivals St George Illawarra and Canterbury will headline the NRL’s Las Vegas season opener, with the full schedule confirmed on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

With just one month until the triple-header at Allegiant Stadium, plans are ramping up for the event which is expected to have tens of thousands of fans in attendance.<\/p>\n

Opening up the day will be a clash between the Brad Arthur-coached Leeds Rhinos and reigning Super League champions Hull KR.<\/p>\n

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Brad Arthur.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Fresh off a historic season that included two trophies, Wille Peters’ men will look to get their 2026 campaign off to a flyer in Vegas. <\/p>\n

The second game on the schedule will see the North Queensland Cowboys and Newcastle Knights square off, which will be the first NRL game of the season.<\/p>\n

Neither team made the finals last year, with the Knights bringing in a new coach in Justin Holbrook while the pressure is mounting on Cowboys boss Todd Payten. <\/p>\n

The main event will be the Dragons and Bulldogs renewing their rivalry in Sin City.<\/p>\n

The two sides have drawn bumper crowds over the past two seasons and are expected to be heavily-represented in Vegas.<\/p>\n

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Lachlan Galvin.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

All eyes will be on the respective halfbacks – Lachlan Galvin and Daniel Atkinson – who will be tasked with steering their teams around the park.<\/p>\n

The final match of the triple-header will be broadcast live and free on Nine and 9Now.<\/p>\n

NRL Las Vegas 2026 full scheduleHull KR vs Leeds Rhinos – 11am AEDT \/ 4pm local Knights vs Cowboys – 1.15pm AEDT \/ 6.15pm localDragons vs Bulldogs – 3.30pm AEDT \/ 8.30pm local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local rivals St George Illawarra and Canterbury will headline the NRL’s Las Vegas season opener, with the full…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-451123","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\/451123","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=451123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}