2025 Melbourne Storm season | ||||
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Team information | ||||
CEO | Justin 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.
Source: [2]
Date | Rd | Opponent | Venue | Result | Mel. | Opp. | Tries | Goals | Field goals | Ref |
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15 February | Trial | New Zealand Warriors | Go Media Stadium, Auckland | |||||||
23 February | Trial | North Queensland Cowboys | Casey Fields, Melbourne |
Source: [3]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | B | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | Brisbane Broncos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Advance to finals series |
2 | Canberra Raiders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
3 | Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
4 | Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
5 | Dolphins | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
6 | Gold Coast Titans | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
7 | Manly Warringah Sea Eagles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
8 | Melbourne Storm | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
9 | Newcastle Knights | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
10 | New Zealand Warriors | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
11 | North Queensland Cowboys | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
12 | Parramatta Eels | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
13 | Penrith Panthers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
14 | South Sydney Rabbitohs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
15 | St. George Illawarra Dragons | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
16 | Sydney Roosters | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
17 | Wests Tigers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
List current as of 19 November 2024 [7]
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In November 2023, Melbourne Storm announced a new sponsorship and apparel partnership agreement with Irish sportswear company O'Neills. [11]
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.
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.
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]
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The 2004 Melbourne Storm season was the 7th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2004 Telstra Premiership and finished the regular season 6th out of 15 teams.
The 2005 Melbourne Storm season was the 8th in the club's history. They competed in the NRL's 2005 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season 6th out of 15 teams and making the finals. The season began with two big wins over the Knights and Dragons, each by more than 30 points. The form line followed a similar path to the previous season though as the team struggled to string consecutive wins together and hovered around the lower part of the eight for much of the season before ultimately finishing sixth once again. Future star Greg Inglis made his debut in Round 6. Storm finished the season with the second best defence in the competition and again went to Suncorp Stadium in Week One of the finals, producing the same result to defeat the Broncos. However for the third straight season the side was unable to progress past the semi-final stage, losing to the Cowboys. At the end of the season, Storm legends Robbie Kearns and Matt Geyer were inducted as inaugural life members of the Club.
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