2022 NRL pre-season results

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2022 NRL pre-season
Duration12 February 2022 – 28 February 2022
Teams17
Matches played21
  2021
2023  

The 2022 NRL pre-season was played between 12 February and 28 February 2022, before a 10-day lead up until the beginning of the 2022 NRL season. [1]

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Background

The 2022 NRL pre-season will feature nineteen matches across three weekends, including the 2022 All Stars match and the annual Charity Shield match between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and St George Illawarra Dragons. [2] The 2022 season also saw the cancellation of the World Club Challenge between reigning NRL premiers Penrith Panthers and 2021 Super League winners St Helens due to complications with the COVID-19 pandemic. [3]

The pre-season also saw the first ever rugby league match to be played in the western Victorian city of Ballarat when Melbourne Storm played the Newcastle Knights at Mars Stadium in front of 5,127 people. [4] The Charity Shield match also drew the highest attendance for the fixture since 2017, and aside from the All Stars match, was the largest attended match of the pre-season with 9,257 fans. [5]

The match between the New Zealand Warriors and the Gold Coast Titans was cancelled after being initially postponed and rescheduled from Moreton Daily Stadium to Cbus Super Stadium due to the 2022 South East Queensland flood. [6] [7]

Fixtures

First week

12 February 2022
16:00 AEST (UTC+10:00)
Wynnum Manly Seagulls Wynnum-Manly Colours.svg 4–52 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos
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BMD Kougari Oval, Brisbane
Attendance: 5,000 [8]

12 February 2022
20:20 AEST (UTC+11:00)
Māori All Stars Tino Rangatiratanga Maori sovereignty movement flag.svg 1610 Australian Aboriginal Flag.svg Indigenous All Stars
Report
CommBank Stadium, Sydney
Attendance: 26,755 [9]

Second week

18 February 2022
18:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Sydney Roosters Eastern Suburbs colours.svg 18–32 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders
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Leichhardt Oval, Sydney
Attendance: 5,563 [10]

18 February 2022
20:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Wests Tigers Wests Tigers colours.svg 4–28 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Report
Leichhardt Oval, Sydney
Attendance: 5,563 [10]

19 February 2022
16:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Melbourne Storm Melbourne colours.svg 16–30 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors
Report
Casey Fields, Melbourne
Attendance: 6,876 [11]

Third week

25 February 2022
18:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg 16–18 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders
Report
Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
Attendance: 5,601 [16]

25 February 2022
20:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Sydney Roosters Eastern Suburbs colours.svg 8–16 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers
Report
Central Coast Stadium, Gosford
Attendance: 5,601 [16]

26 February 2022
17:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Penrith Panthers Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg 0–36 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels
Report
BlueBet Stadium, Sydney
Attendance: TBA [17]

26 February 2022
19:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
South Sydney Rabbitohs South Sydney colours.svg 10–16 St. George Illawarra colours.svg St George Illawarra Dragons
Report

26 February 2022
20:00 AEST (UTC+10:00)
North Queensland Cowboys North Queensland colours.svg 26–6 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos
Report
BB Print Stadium, Mackay
Attendance: 4,545 [18]

27 February 2022
17:45 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Melbourne Storm Melbourne colours.svg 24–10 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights
Report
Mars Stadium, Ballarat
Attendance: 5,127 [19]

28 February 2022
19:00 AEDT (UTC+11:00)
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Cronulla colours.svg 30–6 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Report
PointsBet Stadium, Sydney
Attendance: TBA [20]

28 February 2022
20:00 AEST (UTC+10:00)
New Zealand Warriors Auckland colours.svg Cancelled Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans
Source

a ^ The match was initially scheduled to be played on 26 February at Moreton Daily Stadium, but was rescheduled due to the 2022 South East Queensland flood. [6]

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