{"id":849985,"date":"2026-08-10T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849985\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:08:12","slug":"nrl-retirements-2026-full-list-of-national-rugby-league-retiring-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/849985\/","title":{"rendered":"NRL retirements 2026: Full list of National Rugby League retiring players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2026 NRL season fast approaching its conclusion, multiple players will be pulling on their jerseys for the final time in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>From star veterans to well-travelled journeyman, the NRL will farewell a number of retiring players at the end of 2026 while several others have already closed the door on their careers mid-season.<\/p>\n<p>The Sporting News has compiled a list of NRL players who have already retired in 2026 or are known to be hanging up the boots at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" image_resolution=\"16:9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Jai Arrow 071525.jpg.webp\" title=\"Jai Arrow South Sydney\"\/>NRL players retiring in 2026<\/p>\n<p>There are several other NRL stars who may well call time on their playing careers by the end of the season,\u00a0we\u2019ll update this list as the news breaks.<\/p>\n<p>NB. This list does not include NRL veterans who are departing their clubs for Super League in the off season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2026 NRL season fast approaching its conclusion, multiple players will be pulling on their jerseys for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-849985","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\/849985","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=849985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}