2025 Melbourne Storm season

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2025 Melbourne Storm season
Team information
CEOJustin Rodski
Coach Craig Bellamy
Captain
Stadium AAMI Park – 30,050
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The 2025 Melbourne Storm season is the 28th in the club's history, competing in the 2025 NRL season. The team is coached by Craig Bellamy, coaching the club for a 23rd consecutive season. Harry Grant continues as club captain for a second season.

Contents

Season summary

Fixtures

Pre-season Challenge

Source: [2]

DateRdOpponentVenueResultMel.Opp.TriesGoalsField goalsRef
15 FebruaryTrial New Zealand Warriors Go Media Stadium, Auckland
23 FebruaryTrial North Queensland Cowboys Casey Fields, Melbourne

Regular season

Result by round

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627
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Result
Position
Points
Source: National Rugby League
A = Away; H = Home; N = Neutral; B = Bye; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Source: [3]

DateRdOpponentH/AVenueResultMel.Opp.TriesGoalsField goalsRef
9 March1 Parramatta Eels Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
16 March2 Bye
20 March3 Penrith Panthers Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
25 March4 St. George Illawarra Dragons Away Netstrata Jubille Stadium, Sydney
6 April5 [i] Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Away 4 Pines Park, Sydney
13 April6 New Zealand Warriors Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
18 April7 Dolphins Away Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
25 April8 [ii] South Sydney Rabbitohs Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
4 May9 [iii] Canberra Raiders Home Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
11 May10 [iv] Wests Tigers Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
17 May11 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Away Sharks Stadium, Sydney
24 May12 Bye
31 May13 Gold Coast Titans Away Cbus Super Stadium, Gold Coast
6 June14 North Queensland Cowboys Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
14 June15 Bye
21 June16 South Sydney Rabbitohs Away Accor Stadium, Sydney
29 June17 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
5 July18 North Queensland Cowboys Away Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville
12 July19 Newcastle Knights Away McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle
19 July20 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
24 July21 Sydney Roosters Away Allianz Stadium, Sydney
31 July22 Parramatta Eels Away CommBank Stadium, Sydney
7 August23 [v] Brisbane Broncos Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
14 August24 [vi] Penrith Panthers Away CommBank Stadium, Sydney
22 August25 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
29 August26 Sydney Roosters Home AAMI Park, Melbourne
4 September27 Brisbane Broncos Away Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane
Fixture notes:
  1. Multicultural Round
  2. ANZAC Round
  3. Magic Round
  4. Women in League Round
  5. Indigenous Round
  6. Indigenous Round

Ladder

PosTeamPldWDLBPFPAPDPtsQualification
1 Brisbane colours.svg Brisbane Broncos 000000000Advance to finals series
2 Canberra colours.svg Canberra Raiders 000000000
3 Canterbury colours.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 000000000
4 Cronulla colours.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 000000000
5 Dolphins colours.png Dolphins 000000000
6 Gold Coast Titans colours.svg Gold Coast Titans 000000000
7 Manly Sea Eagles colours.svg Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 000000000
8 Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm 000000000
9 Newcastle colours.svg Newcastle Knights 000000000
10 Auckland colours.svg New Zealand Warriors 000000000
11 North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 000000000
12 Parramatta colours.svg Parramatta Eels 000000000
13 Penrith Panthers square flag icon with 2020 colours.svg Penrith Panthers 000000000
14 South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 000000000
15 St. George colours.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 000000000
16 Eastern Suburbs colours.svg Sydney Roosters 000000000
17 Wests Tigers colours.svg Wests Tigers 000000000
Source: National Rugby League

Coaching staff

2025 squad

List current as of 19 November 2024 [7]

CapNat.Player namePositionFirst Storm gamePrevious First Grade RL club [a]
160 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Cameron Munster FE, FB 2014 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
166 Flag of New Zealand.svg Nelson Asofa-Solomona SR, PR 2015 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
167 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Christian Welch SR, PR 2015 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
181 Flag of Fiji.svg Tui Kamikamica SR, PR 2017 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
184 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jahrome Hughes FE, FB 2017 Flag of Australia (converted).svg North Queensland Cowboys
188 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Harry Grant HK 2018 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
193 Flag of Samoa.svg Marion Seve WG 2019 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
194 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Ryan Papenhuyzen FB 2019 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
212 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Trent Loiero SR 2021 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
213 Flag of Samoa.svg Dean Ieremia WG 2021 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
217 Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg Xavier Coates WG 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brisbane Broncos
218 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Nick Meaney FB 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Canterbury Bulldogs
219 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Josh King PR 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Newcastle Knights
220 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Tyran Wishart FE, HK 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
221 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Alec MacDonald LK 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
222 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Grant Anderson CE 2022 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
225 Flag of New Zealand.svg William Warbrick CE, WG 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
226 Flag of Tonga.svg Eliesa Katoa SR 2023 Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand Warriors
227 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Bronson Garlick LK, SR 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
228 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kane Bradley WG, CE 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg North Queensland Cowboys
229 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jonah Pezet HB 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
231 Flag of Samoa.svg Sualauvi Fa'alogo FB, WG 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
232 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Jack Howarth SR 2023 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
233 Flag of France.svg Joe Chan SR 2023 Flag of France.svg Catalans Dragons
234 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Shawn Blore SR 2024 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Wests Tigers
235 Flag of Samoa.svg Lazarus Vaalepu PR 2024 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
236 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Keagan Russell-Smith FE, HB 2024 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
237 Flag of Samoa.svg Ativalu Lisati PR 2024 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
Flag of New Zealand.svg Moses Leo WG Yet to debut Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Coby Williamson CE Yet to debut Flag of Australia (converted).svg Melbourne Storm

Player movements

Source: [8] [9]


Jerseys

In November 2023, Melbourne Storm announced a new sponsorship and apparel partnership agreement with Irish sportswear company O'Neills. [11]

Home

As part of the NRL's two year jersey cycle, the 2025 home jersey is the same as the 2024 version originally revealed in November 2023. [12] The jersey is navy blue with a purple yoke and sleeves. There are bright yellow lightning bolt designs on the side panels, and a revised Big V logo at the top of the rear of the jersey as a continuation of the Our Home, Victoria acknowledgment which began during the 2020 season to honour Storm's home state. This jersey will be worn with navy blue shorts and socks.

Away

As with the home jersy, the away jersey is the same as what was worn during the 2024 season. It is worn when the home jersey creates a clash with the opposition, and is a similar design to the home jersey, with white replacing the navy blue base colour. This jersey is worn with purple shorts, with white socks.

Junior Representatives

The club entered teams in the 2025 New South Wales Rugby League junior representative competitions with the following coaching staff:

The club's academy program had Tim Auremi as Pathways Operations Manager and Dean Benton as Pathways Performance Manager. [10]

Notes

  1. Previous First Grade RL club: This column denotes the previous RL club the player was signed to and played first grade RL for. If they are yet to debut then this is stipulated. If they were merely signed to the club but did not play then it is not counted

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