2021 NRL Women's season results

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The 2021 NRL Women's Premiership was the fifth season of professional women's rugby league in Australia. All games took place in 2022, not 2021, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Regular season

Round 1

HomeScoreAwayMatch information
Date and timeVenueRefereesAttendanceReports
St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 20 – 12 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Sunday, 27 February, 12:00 pm McDonald Jones Stadium Karra-Lee Nolan2,615 [1] [2]
Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 4 – 20 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos Sunday 27 February, 1:50 pm McDonald Jones Stadium Belinda Sharpe 3,847 [3] [4]
Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 12 – 13 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels Sunday 27 February, 3:40 pm McDonald Jones Stadium Kasey Badger5,049 [5] [6]

Round 2

HomeScoreAwayMatch information
Date and timeVenueRefereesAttendanceReports
Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 10 – 28 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos Sunday, 6 March, 12:00 pm WIN Stadium Kasey Badger1,036 [7] [8]
Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 16 – 26 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Sunday, 6 March, 1:50 pm WIN Stadium Karra-Lee Nolan1,278 [9] [10]
St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 10 – 0 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels Sunday, 6 March, 3:40 pm WIN Stadium Belinda Sharpe 2,079 [11] [12]

Round 3

HomeScoreAwayMatch information
Date and timeVenueRefereesAttendanceReports
Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 28 – 12 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights Saturday, 12 March, 1:00 pm Sydney Cricket Ground Karra-Lee Nolan [13] [14]
St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 18 – 22 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos Sunday, 13 March, 12:00 pm CommBank Stadium Belinda Sharpe [15] [16]
Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 24 – 14 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Sunday, 13 March, 1:45 pm CommBank Stadium Kasey Badger [17] [18]

Round 4

HomeScoreAwayMatch information
Date and timeVenueRefereesAttendanceReports
Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 28 – 26 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos Saturday, 19 March, 1:00 pm Cbus Super Stadium Belinda Sharpe [19] [20]
Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 18 – 19 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters Sunday, 20 March, 12:00 pm McDonald Jones Stadium Kasey Badger [21] [22]
Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 4 – 40 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons Sunday, 20 March, 1:45 pm McDonald Jones Stadium Karra-Lee Nolan [23] [24]

Round 5

HomeScoreAwayMatch information
Date and timeVenueRefereesAttendanceReports
St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 16 – 10 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters Saturday, 26 March, 1:00 pm Netstrata Jubilee Stadium Belinda Sharpe 1,023 [25] [26]
Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 14 – 10 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights Sunday, 27 March, 12:00 pm Suncorp Stadium Karra-Lee Nolan [27] [28]
Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 38 – 4 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels Sunday, 27 March, 1:45 pm Suncorp Stadium Kasey Badger [29] [30]

Finals Series

HomeScoreAwayMatch Information
Date and Time (Local)VenueRefereeCrowdReports
SEMI FINALS
St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 24 – 18 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans Sunday, 3 April 2022, 12.00pm Leichhardt Oval Kasey Badger1,734 [31] [32]
Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 16 – 22 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters Sunday, 3 April 2022, 1.45pm Leichhardt Oval Belinda Sharpe 2,124 [33] [34]

Grand Final

Sunday, April 10, 2022.
1.30 PM
St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 4 – 16 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters
Tries: 1
Madison Bartlett
Goals: nil		1st: 4-0
2nd: 0-16
Reports [35] [36]
Tries: 3
Yasmin Meakes
Isabelle Kelly
Olivia Higgins
Goals: 2
Zahara Temara 2

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