Penrith Panthers Honours

The following is a list of titles and awards won by National Rugby League club, the Penrith Panthers.

Team honours

Premierships

Year	Opponent	Competition	Score
1991	Canberra Raiders	NSWRL	19-12
2003	Sydney Roosters	NRL	18-6
2021	South Sydney Rabbitohs	NRL	14-12
2022	Parramatta Eels	NRL	28-12
2023	Brisbane Broncos	NRL	26-24
2024	Melbourne Storm	NRL	14-6

Runners-up

Year	Opponent	Competition	Score
1990	Canberra Raiders	NSWRL	14-18
2020	Melbourne Storm	NRL	20-26

Minor Premierships

Year	Competition	Wins
1991	NSWRL	17
2003	NRL	18
2020	NRL	18
2022	NRL	20
2023	NRL	18

Wooden Spoon

Year	Competition	Wins
1973	NSWRL	5
1980	NSWRL	2 (1 draw)
2001	NRL	7
2007	NRL	8

World Club Challenges

Year	Opponent	Result	Score
1991	Wigan Warriors	Loss	4-21
2004	Bradford Bulls	Loss	4-22
2022	St Helens	Not held
2023	St Helens	Loss	12-13
2024	Wigan Warriors	Loss	12-16

Finals appearances

1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

Individual awards

Club awards

The Player of the Year award is named the Merv Cartwright Medal. ^[1] The Rookie of the Year award is named after Ben Alexander. ^[2]

Year	Player of the Year	John Farragher Award	Rookie of the Year	Club Person of the Year	Members' Player of the Year	Reserve Grade Player of the Year	NYC / Jersey Flegg Player of the Year
2005	Craig Gower [3]	Unknown
2006 [4]	Rhys Wesser	Luke Priddis	Paul Aiton	Preston Campbell		David McLean	Jaye Marleitner
2007	Michael Jennings	Nathan Smith	Michael Jennings	Frank Puletua		Brendan Worth & Craig Trindall	Masada Iosefa & Brendan Hlad
2008	Petero Civoniceva	Luke Lewis	Lachlan Coote	Petero Civoniceva		Andrew Pearn	Jamie Theoharous
2009 [5]	Trent Waterhouse	Luke Walsh	Junior Tia-Kilifi	Petero Civoniceva	Trent Waterhouse	Ben McFadgean	Joel Romelo
2010	Luke Lewis [6]	Unknown	Sandor Earl [7]	Unknown
2011 [8]	Luke Walsh	Travis Burns	Nafe Seluini	John Lawford	Michael Gordon	Jesse Sene-Lefao	Kurt Horton
2012 [9]	Kevin Kingston	Kevin Kingston	Josh Mansour	Jim Jones	Lachlan Coote	Arana Taumata	Vaipuna Tia-Kilifi
2013 [10]	David Simmons	Nigel Plum	Matt Moylan	Kevin Kingston	David Simmons	Sam Anderson	Daniel Foster
2014 [11]	Matt Moylan	Adam Docker	Bryce Cartwright & Dallin Watene-Zelezniak	Jamie Soward	Jamie Soward	Ryan Simpkins	Brendan Attwood
2015 [12]	Tyrone Peachey	Bryce Cartwright	Reagan Campbell-Gillard	Krystal Sharp	Reagan Campbell-Gillard	Will Smith	Moses Leota
2016 [13]	Trent Merrin	Peter Wallace	Nathan Cleary & James Fisher-Harris	Glen Liddiard	Peter Wallace	Zach Dockar-Clay	Corey Waddell
2017 [14]	Reagan Campbell-Gillard	Isaah Yeo	Dylan Edwards & Corey Harawira-Naera	Trent Merrin	Nathan Cleary	Mitch Rein	Wayde Egan
2018	Isaah Yeo	Josh Mansour	Jack Hetherington	Peter Wallace	Viliame Kikau	Caleb Aekins	Daine Laurie
2019 [15]	James Fisher-Harris	James Fisher-Harris	Brian To'o	Kevin Kingston	James Fisher-Harris	Billy Burns	Charlie Staines
2020 [16]	Nathan Cleary	James Fisher-Harris	Stephen Crichton	Jason Wrigley	Nathan Cleary	Not awarded
2021 [17]	Nathan Cleary	Dylan Edwards	Izack Tago	Darren Micallef	Brian To'o	Not awarded
2022 [18]	Dylan Edwards	James Fisher-Harris	Taylan May	Alan Mair	Dylan Edwards	J'maine Hopgood	Not awarded
2023 [19]	Isaah Yeo	Moses Leota	Sunia Turuva	Henry Ward	Dylan Edwards	Liam Henry	Sam Lane
2024 [20]	Isaah Yeo	Mitch Kenny	Liam Henry	Matt Eisenhuth	Isaah Yeo	Isaiah Iongi	Nick Murphy
2025 [21]	Nathan Cleary	Thomas Jenkins	Luron Patea	Scott Sorensen	Thomas Jenkins	Luke Sommerton	Jenson Tuaoi

References

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5. "Waterhouse an inspiration". Penrith Press. 11 September 2009. Archived from the original on 16 September 2009.
6. Georgakopoulos, Chris (9 September 2010). "Panther Luke Lewis will sign for life". Penrith Press. Archived from the original on 12 September 2010.
7. Lewis, Daniel (13 September 2010). "Sandor becomes the Earl of Penrith and wins rookie award to boot". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
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13. Pollard, Krystyna (6 October 2016). "Forward named winner of 2016 Merv Cartwright Medal at glittering ceremony". Penrith City Gazette. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
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19. "Yeo claims 2023 Merv Cartwright Medal". penrithpanthers.com.au. 5 October 2023. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
20. "Yeo wins back-to-back Merv Cartwright Medals". penrithpanthers.com.au. 8 October 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
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