Melbourne Storm is an Australian professional rugby league club based in Melbourne, Australia. The club was formed in 1997 and played their first competitive matches in the 1998 NRL season.
The club has won four premierships since their inception, in 1999, 2012, 2017 and 2020, and have contested several more grand finals. They won the 2007 and 2009 grand finals, but were stripped of those premierships following salary cap breaches.
| ‡ | Club finished regular season in first position (J. J. Giltinan Shield) |
| † | Club finished regular season in last position (wooden spoon) |
| DNQ | Club did not qualify for finals |
| Season | Club | WCC | Regular season | Finals results | Coach | Captain(s) [a] | Ref | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | W | L | D | Final position | W | L | ||||||
| 1998 | 1998 | — | 3rd | 17 | 6 | 1 | Lost semi final | 1 | 2 | Chris Anderson | Glenn Lazarus | [1] [2] [3] |
| 1999 | 1999 | — | 3rd | 16 | 8 | 0 | Premiers | 3 | 1 | [4] [5] [6] | ||
| 2000 | 2000 | Won | 6th | 14 | 11 | 1 | Lost qualifying final | 0 | 1 | Robbie Kearns | [7] [8] [9] | |
| 2001 | 2001 | — | 9th | 11 | 14 | 1 | DNQ | Chris Anderson → Mark Murray | [10] [11] [12] | |||
| 2002 | 2002 | — | 10th | 9 | 14 | 1 | DNQ | Mark Murray | Robbie Kearns → Rodney Howe | [13] [14] [15] | ||
| 2003 | 2003 | — | 5th | 15 | 9 | 0 | Lost semi final | 1 | 1 | Craig Bellamy | Stephen Kearney | [16] [17] [18] |
| 2004 | 2004 | — | 6th | 13 | 11 | 0 | Lost semi final | 1 | 1 | [19] [20] [21] | ||
| 2005 | 2005 | — | 6th | 13 | 11 | 0 | Lost semi final | 1 | 1 | Robbie Kearns | [22] [23] [24] | |
| 2006 | 2006 | — | 20 | 4 | 0 | Runners-up | 2 | 1 | Rotating captains [c] | [25] [26] | ||
| 2007 | 2007 | — | 21 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | [27] [28] | ||||
| 2008 | 2008 | Lost | 17 | 7 | 0 | Runners-up | 2 | 2 | Cameron Smith | [29] [30] | ||
| 2009 | 2009 | — | 4th | 14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | [31] [32] | |||
| 2010 | 2010 | Won [b] | 16th† [d] | 14 | 10 | 0 | DNQ | [33] [34] | ||||
| 2011 | 2011 | — | 1st‡ | 19 | 5 | 0 | Lost preliminary final | 1 | 1 | [35] [36] | ||
| 2012 | 2012 | — | 2nd | 17 | 7 | 0 | Premiers | 3 | 0 | [37] [38] | ||
| 2013 | 2013 | Won | 3rd | 16 | 7 | 1 | Lost semi final | 0 | 2 | [39] [40] | ||
| 2014 | 2014 | — | 6th | 14 | 10 | 0 | Lost elimination final | 0 | 1 | [41] [42] | ||
| 2015 | 2015 | — | 4th | 14 | 10 | 0 | Lost preliminary final | 1 | 1 | [43] [44] | ||
| 2016 | 2016 | — | 1st‡ | 19 | 5 | 0 | Runners-up | 2 | 1 | [45] [46] | ||
| 2017 | 2017 | — | 1st‡ | 20 | 4 | 0 | Premiers | 3 | 0 | [47] [48] | ||
| 2018 | 2018 | Won | 2nd | 16 | 8 | 0 | Runners-up | 2 | 1 | [49] [50] | ||
| 2019 | 2019 | — | 1st‡ | 20 | 4 | 0 | Lost preliminary final | 1 | 2 | [51] [52] | ||
| 2020 | 2020 | — | 2nd | 16 | 4 | 0 | Premiers | 3 | 0 | [53] [54] | ||
| 2021 | 2021 | DNP [e] | 1st‡ | 21 | 3 | 0 | Lost preliminary final | 1 | 1 | Jesse Bromwich & Dale Finucane | [56] [57] | |
| 2022 | 2022 | — | 5th | 15 | 9 | 0 | Lost elimination final | 0 | 1 | Jesse Bromwich & Christian Welch | [58] [59] | |
| 2023 | 2023 | — | 3rd | 16 | 8 | 0 | Lost preliminary final | 1 | 2 | Christian Welch | [60] [61] | |
| 2024 | 2024 | — | 1st‡ | 19 | 5 | 0 | Runners-up | 2 | 1 | Harry Grant | [62] [63] | |
| 2025 | 2025 | — | Current season | |||||||||
| Season | Club | Regular season | Finals results | Coach | Ref | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | W | L | D | Final position | W | L | ||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 13th | 8 | 15 | 1 | DNQ | Brad Arthur | |||
| 2009 | 2009 | 3rd | 19 | 5 | 0 | Premiers | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2010 | 2010 | 13th | 8 | 14 | 2 | DNQ | Dean Pay | |||
| 2011 | 2011 | 4th | 16 | 8 | 0 | Lost semi final | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2012 | 2012 | 9th | 12 | 10 | 2 | DNQ | ||||
| 2013 | 2013 | 9th | 11 | 13 | 0 | DNQ | Anthony Seibold | |||
| 2014 | 2014 | 11th | 12 | 12 | 0 | DNQ | Matt Adamson | |||
| 2015 | 2015 | 9th | 10 | 13 | 1 | DNQ | Marc Brentnall | |||
| 2016 | 2016 | 12th | 8 | 14 | 2 | DNQ | Eric Smith | |||
| 2017 | 2017 | 13th | 9 | 15 | 0 | DNQ | ||||
| # | Competed in the Hastings Deering Colts competition as Victoria Thunderbolts in association with NRL Victoria. |
| ⁑ | Competed as Victoria Thunderbolts in association with NRL Victoria. [64] |
| † | Club finished regular season in last position (wooden spoon) |
| Season | Club | Regular season | Finals results | Coach | Ref | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | W | L | D | Final position | W | L | ||||
| 2018# | 2018 | 4th | 13 | 6 | 0 | Lost semi final | 1 | 1 | Ben Jack | |
| 2019⁑ | 2019 | 12th | 3 | 14 | 3 | DNQ | [65] | |||
| 2020⁑ | 2020 | — | 0 | 1 | 0 | Canc. [66] | ||||
| 2021⁑ | 2021 | — | 1 | 6 | 2 | Canc. | ||||
| 2022⁑ | 2022 | 11th | 6 | 16 | 0 | DNQ | Adam Woolnough | |||
| 2023 | 2023 | 6th | 11 | 11 | 0 | DNQ | Mark Russell | |||
| 2024 | 2024 | 12th | 8 | 16 | 0 | DNQ | ||||
| ⁑ | Competed as Victoria Thunderbolts in association with NRL Victoria. [67] |
| † | Club finished regular season in last position (wooden spoon) |
| Season | Club | Regular season | Finals results | Coach | Ref | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos. | W | L | D | Final position | W | L | ||||
| 2009 | 2009 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | Runners-up | 2 | 1 | Kim Williams | |
| 2010 | 2010 | 6th | 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost semi final | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2011 | 2011 | 14th | 2 | 7 | 0 | DNQ | ||||
| 2012 | 2012 | 13th | 2 | 9 | 1 | DNQ | ||||
| 2013 | 2013 | 9th | 5 | 4 | 0 | DNQ | Tony Adam | |||
| 2014 | 2014 | 8th | 5 | 4 | 0 | Lost elimination final | 0 | 1 | ||
| 2015 | 2015 | Did not participate | ||||||||
| 2016 | 2016 | Did not participate | ||||||||
| 2017 | 2017 | Did not participate | ||||||||
| 2018 | 2018 | Did not participate | ||||||||
| 2019⁑ | 2019 | 14th | 2 | 6 | 0 | DNQ | Janan Billings | [68] | ||
| 2020⁑ | 2020 | — | 2 | 3 | 0 | Susp. [69] | TBC | |||
| 2021⁑ | 2021 | 12th | 1 | 5 | 2 | DNQ | TBC | |||
| 2022⁑ | 2022 | 15th† | 0 | 8 | 0 | DNQ | Wayne Adams | [70] | ||
| 2023 | 2023 | 16th† | 1 | 8 | 0 | DNQ | Jason Warr | |||
| 2024 | 2024 | 13th | 2 | 6 | 1 | DNQ | Ashley Lanfrechi | |||