{"id":740869,"date":"2026-06-16T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740869\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:32:11","slug":"state-of-origin-kick-off-time-2026-what-time-does-game-2-start-tonight-and-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/740869\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Origin kick-off time 2026: What time does Game 2 start tonight and how to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second game of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/state-of-origin-teams-26dd\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State of Origin<\/a> series is scheduled to kick off at 8.05pm. <\/p>\n<p>After a one-year break, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/nrl\/state-of-origin\/queensland-maroons\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maroons<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/nsw-blues-1lvd\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blues<\/a> will return to the Melbourne Cricket Ground to face off on neutral soil on Wednesday, June 17. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\" NSW Blues coach Laurie Daley and Queensland Maroons coach Billy Slater speak to the media\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/397dfe0c2753df2e65e557c929607f8f0d37943b.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\"> NSW Blues coach Laurie Daley and Queensland Maroons coach Billy Slater are ready to battle.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Blues have a chance to seal victory and claim the Origin shield if they win. <\/p>\n<p>Origin has not taken place at the MCG since 2024 when the Blues claimed a 38-18 win over the Maroons to tie the series.<\/p>\n<p>Game two will be broadcast live exclusively on Nine and 9Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second game of the 2026 State of Origin series is scheduled to kick off at 8.05pm. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-740869","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\/740869","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=740869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}