Background
The 2024 NRL Women's season was the 7th season of semi-professional women's rugby league in Australia. The season consisted of nine competition rounds, followed by semi-finals contested by the top four teams on the competition ladder.
The Sydney Roosters finished second on the 2024 ladder with a record of seven wins, two losses and a points difference of 110. The Brisbane Broncos had the same win-loss record as the Roosters but a slightly higher points difference of 116 gave them the minor premiership. [1] The Roosters hosted the third-placed Newcastle Knights in a semi-final at Allianz Stadium. Scoring four of the five first half tries the Roosters led the Knights 22–4 at the break. A penalty goal early in the second stanza extended the Roosters’ lead to 20 points. The Knights scored their second try with ten minutes left on the game clock. The Roosters countered with a field goal before the Knights scored a third try in the penultimate minute. The Roosters prevailed 25–16, eliminating the twice defending premiers. [2] [3]
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks finished fourth on the ladder with a record of six consecutive wins to start the season, followed by three consecutive losses to end the regular season. The Newcastle Knights had the same win-loss record as the Sharks but a better points difference, 106 to 24. [1] The Sharks travelled to Totally Workwear Stadium in inner south-eastern suburban Brisbane to play the Brisbane Broncos. The Sharks scored the only try of the first half in the 13th minue to lead six-nil at the break. A second but unconverted try two minutes into the second stanza extended the Sharks’ lead to ten-nil. After a third try, also unconverted, the Sharks held on for the last twelve minutes of the game to win, 14–0. [4] [3]
The Sydney Roosters had lost NRLW Grand Finals in the short 2018 and 2020 seasons. [5] [6] At their third NRLW Grand Final appearance in the postponed 2021 season in April 2022, the Roosters claimed their first Grand Final win and premiership. [7]
The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks made the NRLW Grand Final for the first time in their second season.
Going into 2024 Grand Final, the Sydney Roosters had won 27 NRLW matches across their seven seasons with a win percentage of 61.36% from 44 matches. The Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks had won 11 NRLW matches in their two seasons with a win percentage of 57.89% from 19 matches. The record between the teams strongly favoured the Sydney Roosters who had won both competition games, 36–12 in Round 4 of 2023 and 40–0 in Round 7 of 2024. [8]
Route to the Grand Final| Team | Regular Season | Semi-Finals |
|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|
| Sydney Roosters |  10–12 |  28–12 |  20–4 |  28–8 |  6–26 |  34–20 |  40–0 |  24–12 |  32–18 | 25–16 |
| A | H(S) | H(G) | A | A | H(S) | A | H(G) | A | H(S) |
| Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks | 14–0 | 18–16 | 24–12 | 14–12 | 28–4 | 22–6 |  0–40 | 16–20 | 10–12 | 14–0 |
| H | A | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A |
| Key: H(G) = Home venue - Gosford; H(S) = Home venue - Sydney; H = Home venue (Sharks); A = Away venue; N = Neutral venue |
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