2022 NRL pre-season results explained

Year:2022
Competition:NRL pre-season
Duration:12 February 2022 – 28 February 2022
Teams:17
Matches:21
Nextseason Year:2023

The 2022 NRL pre-season was played between 12 February and 28 February 2022, before a 10-day lead up until the beginning of the 2022 NRL season.[1]

Background

The 2022 NRL pre-season will feature nineteen matches across three weekends, including the 2022 All Stars match and the annual Charity Shield match between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and St George Illawarra Dragons.[2] The 2022 season also saw the cancellation of the World Club Challenge between reigning NRL premiers Penrith Panthers and 2021 Super League winners St Helens due to complications with the COVID-19 pandemic.[3]

The pre-season also saw the first ever rugby league match to be played in the western Victorian city of Ballarat when Melbourne Storm played the Newcastle Knights at Mars Stadium in front of 5,127 people.[4] The Charity Shield match also drew the highest attendance for the fixture since 2017, and aside from the All Stars match, was the largest attended match of the pre-season with 9,257 fans.

The match between the New Zealand Warriors and the Gold Coast Titans was cancelled after being initially postponed and rescheduled from Moreton Daily Stadium to Cbus Super Stadium due to the 2022 South East Queensland flood.[5] [6]

Fixtures

First week

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See main article: 2022 All Stars match.

Second week

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Third week

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See also: Charity Shield (NRL). ----------------a The match was initially scheduled to be played on 26 February at Moreton Daily Stadium, but was rescheduled due to the 2022 South East Queensland flood.

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: All Stars, Charity Shield, double-headers headline pre-season. January 26, 2022. National Rugby League.
  2. Web site: NRL slammed for banning Latrell Mitchell from All Stars game while letting him play Charity Shield. January 31, 2022. Fox Sports.
  3. Web site: World Club Challenge set for continued absence following silence in Australia. 4 January 2022.
  4. Web site: Storm finishes trials with impressive win. 28 February 2022.
  5. Web site: Vodafone Warriors' Redcliffe trial postponed until Monday - Warriors . 2022-02-28 . 2022-02-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220228001520/https://www.warriors.kiwi/news/2022/02/26/redcliffe-trial-postponed/ . dead .
  6. Web site: Warriors-Titans pre-season trial cancelled due to extreme weather. 28 February 2022.