preferred source on Google<\/a> and ensure you never miss our exclusives and breaking news!<\/p>\nThursday, February 12<\/p>\n
9am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 Dolphins v Gold Coast Titans \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
8pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 York v Hull KR \u2013 Sky Sports+ TV channel<\/p>\n
The weekend\u2019s action starts on Saturday morning with a pre-season game Down Under as the Dolphins take on the Titans. As a reminder, the new NRL season begins in Las Vegas at the end of this month.<\/p>\n
Fortunately for us, we don\u2019t have to wait that long for the new Super League campaign, which begins on Thursday night with a tasty clash between York and 2025 treble winners Hull KR. This is the Knights\u2019 first-ever game in the competition, and one not to be missed!<\/p>\n
Friday, February 13<\/p>\n
6.30am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 Canberra Raiders v Melbourne Storm \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
9am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 North Queensland Cowboys v Penrith Panthers \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
6pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 Catalans Dragons v Huddersfield Giants \u2013 Sky Sports+ Red Button\/Super League+<\/p>\n
8pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 Leigh Leopards v Leeds Rhinos \u2013 Sky Sports+ Red Button\/Super League+<\/p>\n
6pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 Warrington Wolves v St Helens \u2013 Sky Sports Main Event\/Sky Sports Action<\/p>\n
There\u2019s five games for you to enjoy on Friday, with the first two coming in the morning from Down Under where pre-season action continues at a pace. The first of those sees the Raiders, who finished top of the ladder last term, take on beaten Grand Finalists Melbourne Storm!<\/p>\n
Come 6pm (UK time), the second game of the Super League season will be upon us as Catalans host Huddersfield over in Perpignan. And once that\u2019s over, you\u2019ll have your first choice of the year to make between either Leigh v Leeds or Warrington v Saints. Of course, those among you who are prepared will have a couple of screens available at the same time to keep up with both.<\/p>\n
Saturday, February 14<\/p>\n
2.40am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 New Zealand Warriors v Manly Sea Eagles \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
4.50am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 Wests Tigers v Sydney Roosters \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
7am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 Newcastle Knights v Canterbury Bulldogs \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
9.10am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 St George Illawarra Dragons v South Sydney Rabbitohs \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
5.30pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 Hull FC v Bradford Bulls \u2013 Sky Sports+ Red Button\/Super League+<\/p>\n
8pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 Wakefield Trinity v Toulouse Olympique \u2013 Sky Sports+ Red Button\/Super League+<\/p>\n
Valentine\u2019s Day? Forget that. There\u2019s an RL marathon to get through, starting very early on Saturday morning as there are no fewer than four NRL pre-season games available to watch back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Hats off to anyone who watches all of those!<\/p>\n
We\u2019d advise a nap then to get ready for Saturday evening, which begins with Bradford\u2019s return to Super League as they travel across Yorkshire to Hull FC. After that, it\u2019s the other newly-promoted side in action with Toulouse visiting Wakefield, the side that beat them in the 2024 Championship Grand Final.<\/p>\n
Sunday, February 15<\/p>\n
2.45am: Women\u2019s All-Star (Pre-season) \u2013 New Zealand M\u0101ori v Australian Indigenous \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
5am: Men\u2019s All-Star (Pre-season) \u2013 New Zealand M\u0101ori v Australian Indigenous \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
7am: NRL (Pre-season) \u2013 Cronulla Sharks v Parramatta Eels \u2013 Sky Sports Action\/Watch NRL<\/p>\n
3pm: Super League (R1) \u2013 Castleford Tigers v Wigan Warriors \u2013 BBC iPlayer\/Sky Sports+ Red Button\/Super League+<\/p>\n
We\u2019re sure you won\u2019t have had enough of our great game by Sunday, so it\u2019s a good job there are still four more games for your entertainment.<\/p>\n
Again, it begins early doors with the double-header Down Under of the women\u2019s and men\u2019s All Stars games. Those see representative sides made up of New Zealand M\u0101ori players go up against sides representing a combination of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.<\/p>\n
After those two clashes, there\u2019s another NRL pre-season game on offer in the shape of the Sharks v the Eels.<\/p>\n
And rounding things off for the weekend is a Super League clash being shown by the BBC. It\u2019s a repeat of a 2024 season opener between Cas and Wigan at The Jungle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rugby league is well and truly back for 2026, with the new Super League season starting this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-474637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474637","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=474637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}