{"id":679564,"date":"2026-05-18T23:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679564\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T23:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:07:09","slug":"magic-round-2026-breaks-multiple-records-for-biggest-year-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/679564\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Round 2026 breaks multiple records for biggest year to date"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NRL’s Magic Round<\/a> for 2026 has broken plenty of records following its biggest event to date.<\/p>\n

Since its inception in 2019, Magic Round<\/a> has been made a festival-like event for all 17 club supporters to flock to, having the entire round of NRL<\/a> in one ground for the ultimate fan experience.<\/p>\n

Most notably headlined by the incredible following of the New Zealand Warriors<\/a>, who sold over half a million dollars in merch at their pop-up store in Brisbane.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NRL<\/a> has provided statistics that show the footy-festival is growing in popularity each year to becoming the greatest event in the Australian sporting calendar.<\/p>\n

The record was smashed this year with 148,661 total Magic Round<\/a> fan attendees, with Suncorp Stadium raising the ‘sold out’ sign on all three days during the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The start of the festival was a success, with the Women’s State of Origin<\/a> game two on Thursday night attracting 23,846 fans on a wet evening, with viewership reaching over 1 million for the clash.<\/p>\n

The NRL’s app and website held 2.15 million users across the weekend, with 11.3 million match centre views.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alongside those numbers were 50.5 million total page views across the website and app.<\/p>\n

The total Australian viewership reached a 15% increase from last year, tallying at 6.5 million people.<\/p>\n

It means it was the most watched NRL<\/a> round of all time on the available pay-to-air channel.<\/p>\n

To add to the impressive tally of numbers, there were 5000 community activations from junior boys and girls initiatives across the weekend of Magic Round<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Sunday 4pm fixture between the Broncos and the Warriors became the most-watched game in that time-slot ever.<\/p>\n

The Roosters vs Cowboys match also smashed the 5:30 Saturday record and became the most viewed game in that time-slot ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NRL<\/a> will look to do one better next year when the Perth Bears<\/a> enter the competition, which will see Suncorp host a ninth game when the competition falls on an even number of teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NRL’s Magic Round for 2026 has broken plenty of records following its biggest event to date. Since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-679564","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\/679564","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=679564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}