The 2019 NRL season was the 112th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 22nd season run by the National Rugby League. The Sydney Roosters became the first team to win back-to-back Premierships since the Brisbane Broncos in 1997–98, and the first to achieve the feat since the unified NRL competition started in 1998.
Teams
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 13th consecutive year.
Colours Club Season Home ground(s) Head coach Captain(s) Brisbane Broncos 32nd season Suncorp Stadium Anthony Seibold Darius Boyd Canberra Raiders 38th season GIO Stadium Canberra Ricky Stuart Jarrod Croker & Josh Hodgson Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 85th season ANZ Stadium & Belmore Sports Ground Dean Pay Josh Jackson Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 53rd season PointsBet Stadium John Morris Paul Gallen & Wade Graham Gold Coast Titans 13th season Cbus Super Stadium → Luke Burt (interim) Ryan James Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 70th season Lottoland Des Hasler Daly Cherry-Evans Melbourne Storm 22nd season AAMI Park Craig Bellamy Cameron Smith Newcastle Knights 32nd season McDonald Jones Stadium → Kristian Woolf (interim) Mitchell Pearce New Zealand Warriors 25th season Mt. Smart Stadium Stephen Kearney Roger Tuivasa-Sheck North Queensland Cowboys 25th season 1300SMILES Stadium Paul Green Michael Morgan Parramatta Eels 73rd season Bankwest Stadium Brad Arthur Tim Mannah & Clint Gutherson Penrith Panthers 53rd season Panthers Stadium Ivan Cleary James Maloney → James Tamou South Sydney Rabbitohs 110th season ANZ Stadium Wayne Bennett → Sam Burgess St. George Illawarra Dragons 21st season Netstrata Jubilee Stadium & WIN Stadium Paul McGregor Gareth Widdop Sydney Roosters 112th season Sydney Cricket Ground Trent Robinson Jake Friend & Boyd Cordner Wests Tigers 20th season Leichhardt Oval, Campbelltown Stadium & Bankwest Stadium Michael Maguire Moses Mbye
Pre-season
The 2019 pre-season featured the All Stars match held on February 15 at AAMI Park. The 2019 World Club Challenge match saw the NRL premiers Sydney Roosters defeat the Super League champions Wigan Warriors.
Regular season
For the first time, the NRL announced that the entirety of a round of games would be hosted at a single venue, adopting the Super League's Magic Weekend concept. Magic Round took place during Round 9 at Suncorp Stadium.
State of Origin was played in Perth for the first time, with Game 2 of the 2019 series played at Optus Stadium.
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Bold – Opposition's Home game X – Bye * – Golden point game Opponent for round listed above margin
Ladder
Ladder progression
Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8. Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round. Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round. Underlined numbers indicate that the team had a bye during that round. Team123456789101112131415161718192021222324251 Melbourne 2 4 6 8 10 10 12 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 32 34 36 36 38 40 422 Sydney 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 16 16 18 18 20 20 22 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 363 South Sydney 2 4 6 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 20 20 20 20 22 24 26 28 28 28 28 30 32 344 Canberra 2 2 4 6 8 10 10 12 12 12 12 14 16 18 18 20 22 24 26 28 28 30 30 32 325 Parramatta 2 4 4 6 6 8 8 10 10 10 10 12 12 14 16 18 20 20 22 24 26 28 28 28 306 Manly-Warringah 0 0 2 4 6 6 8 10 10 12 12 12 14 16 18 20 20 22 24 26 26 28 30 30 307 Cronulla-Sutherland 0 2 4 4 4 6 6 8 10 10 12 14 16 16 16 16 16 16 18 20 20 22 24 24 268 Brisbane 0 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 6 8 10 12 12 12 12 14 15 17 19 19 21 23 23 25 259 Wests 2 4 4 4 6 6 8 8 10 10 10 12 12 14 16 16 16 16 18 20 20 20 22 24 2410 Penrith 0 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 20 20 22 22 22 22 2411 Newcastle 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 16 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 20 20 22 2212 Canterbury-Bankstown 0 0 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 6 6 6 6 6 8 10 12 12 12 14 16 18 20 20 2213 New Zealand 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 4 6 8 8 10 10 12 12 14 15 17 17 17 19 19 19 19 2114 North Queensland 2 2 2 2 2 4 4 6 6 8 10 12 12 12 12 14 16 16 16 16 16 16 18 20 2015 St. George Illawarra 0 0 2 4 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 10 12 12 14 14 14 14 14 14 16 16 16 16 1816 Gold Coast 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 4 4 4 6 6 8 8 8 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Finals series
Parramatta Eels 58 – 0 Elimination Final win over Brisbane Broncos broke the record for the biggest winning margin in Finals history, beating the previous mark of 48 points when Newtown defeated St. George 55 – 7 in the 1944 Semi-finals.
HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and Time (Local)VenueRefereesCrowd QUALIFYING & ELIMINATION Finals Sydney Roosters 30 – 6 South Sydney Rabbitohs 13 September 2019, 7:50pm Sydney Cricket Ground Gerard SuttonAdam Gee 30,370 Melbourne Storm 10 – 12 Canberra Raiders 14 September 2019, 5:45pm AAMI Park Ashley KleinChris Sutton 20,136 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 28 – 16 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 14 September 2019, 7:50pm Lottoland Matt CecchinHenry Perenara 15,495 Parramatta Eels 58 – 0 Brisbane Broncos 15 September 2019, 4:05pm Bankwest Stadium Ben CumminsGrant Atkins 29,372 SEMI Finals South Sydney Rabbitohs 34 – 26 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 20 September 2019, 7:50pm ANZ Stadium Gerard SuttonAdam Gee 32,127 Melbourne Storm 32 – 0 Parramatta Eels 21 September 2019, 7:50pm AAMI Park Ben CumminsGrant Atkins 21,015 PRELIMINARY Finals Canberra Raiders 16 – 10 South Sydney Rabbitohs 27 September 2019, 7:55pm GIO Stadium Ben CumminsGrant Atkins 26,567 Sydney Roosters 14 – 6 Melbourne Storm 28 September 2019, 7:55pm Sydney Cricket Ground Gerard SuttonAdam Gee 32,814
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Grand Final
Player statistics and records In Round 5, Cameron Smith surpassed Hazem El Masri's career tally of 2,418 points to become the highest point scorer in NRL history. In Round 17 he played his 400th NRL career game, becoming the first player to ever do so.
The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 25.
Top 5 point scorers PointsPlayerTriesGoalsField Goals251 Latrell Mitchell18891212 Jarrod Croker12820206 Cameron Smith2990185 Adam Reynolds2873181 Mitchell Moses2861 Top 5 try scorers TriesPlayer20 Maika Sivo18 Latrell Mitchell17 Ken Maumalo16 Reuben Garrick15 James Tedesco15 Daniel Tupou15 Cody Walker
Top 5 goal scorers GoalsPlayer99 Cameron Smith89 Latrell Mitchell87 Adam Reynolds86 Mitchell Moses82 Jarrod Croker Top 5 tacklers TacklesPlayer1,146 Cameron McInnes1,138 Reed Mahoney1,030 James Fisher-Harris1,026 Damien Cook992 Jake Trbojevic
2019 Transfers
Players