{"id":452463,"date":"2026-02-01T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452463\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:55:09","slug":"nrl-confirm-las-vegas-schedule-to-kick-off-2026-nrl-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452463\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL confirm Las Vegas schedule to kick off 2026 – NRL News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL<\/a> have confirmed the North Queensland Cowboys<\/a> and Newcastle Knights<\/a> will open the 2026 season in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Down from four games last year, three will be played at Allegiant Stadium this year, with an English Super League<\/a> match between Hull KR<\/a> and Leeds to open proceedings.<\/p>\n

That game will kick-off at 4pm (local), or 11am (AEDT), with the two NRL<\/a> games to commence at increments of 2 hours and 15 minutes after that.<\/p>\n

The Cowboys and Knights will commence at 1:15pm (AEDT), while the Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> and St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a> will start at 3:30pm (AEDT).<\/p>\n

That means the Bulldogs and Dragons will be on free to air TV in Australia<\/a>, while the Knights and Cowboys, as well as the Super League<\/a> game, will be on Pay TV only.<\/p>\n

In the USA<\/a>, the Super League<\/a> and first NRL<\/a> game will be available on Fox Sports 2, while the Bulldogs and Dragons will be available on Fox Sports 1.<\/p>\n

The week also includes plenty of other activations around Las Vegas, while a triple-header between the USA<\/a> national youth, women’s and men’s teams, and the Scotland<\/a> equivalents, will be played on the Friday local time.<\/p>\n

Full Las Vegas rugby league schedule<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 25
NRL<\/a> Vegas Schools Gala Day, 9am to 1pm (local time)<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 26
NRL<\/a> Las Vegas Nines (all day)<\/p>\n

Friday, February 27
NRL<\/a> Las Vegas Nines (all day)
USA<\/a> Hawks vs Scotland<\/a> – youth, 3:45pm (local time)
USA<\/a> Hawks vs Scotland<\/a> – women, 6pm (local time)
USA<\/a> Hawks vs Scotland<\/a> – men, 8:15pm (local time)<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 28
Hull KR<\/a> vs Leeds Rhinos<\/a>, 4pm (local time), 11am (AEDT)
Newcastle Knights<\/a> vs North Queensland Cowboys<\/a>, 6:15pm (local time), 1:15pm (AEDT)
Canterbury Bulldogs<\/a> vs St George Illawarra Dragons<\/a>, 8:30pm (local time), 3:30pm (AEDT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL have confirmed the North Queensland Cowboys and Newcastle Knights will open the 2026 season in Las…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-452463","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\/452463","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=452463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}