2022 NRL Women's season

The 2022 NRLW Premiership was the fifth professional season of Women's rugby league in Australia. The season started on Saturday, 20 August and ran for seven weekends. This comprised five rounds, semi-finals for the top four teams, and a Grand Final that was played on Sunday 2 October as a curtain raiser to the 2022 men's Grand Final. This was the last season before the NRLW went professional.

Teams

The line-up of teams remained the same as the postponed 2021 season (held from February to April in 2022). The number of teams would be increased to 10 in 2023.

Notes:

In the Captain(s) column
The number next to the name indicates the number of games played as captain
The word and indicates joint captains. Of the two clubs that employed joint captains neither had both appear in every match.
The word also indicates the player deputised as captain when the regular captain missed one or more matches.

Win/loss table

Bold Ã¢ÂÂ Home game * Ã¢ÂÂ Golden point game Opponent for round listed above margin

Regular season

The first announcement of the 2022 NRLW season's fixtures was released by the NRL on 8 July 2022.

Matches in rounds 1Ã¢ÂÂ3 were played as either curtain raisers or closers to men's matches, or as standalone fixtures. The announcement of Round 4 fixtures was delayed until the NRL placings were known and the four NRL week one finals matches were determined. Round 5 was a triple-header at Central Coast Stadium using the same format as rounds 1 and 2 from the 2021 season.

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Notes:

Ladder

Ladder progression

Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top four.
Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round.
Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round.

Finals series

Two semi-finals were played on 25 September 2022 as part of a quadruple-header also featuring the men's and women's Prime Minister's XIII matches against .

The Grand Final was played on Sunday, 2 October 2022, between the winners of the two semi-finals, at Accor Stadium as curtain-raiser to the 2022 men's season grand final.

Grand Final

Team of the week

At the conclusion of each round, the media department of the NRL announce a team of the week. Seventeen players were named.

Dream Team

In the week between the semi-finals and Grand Final, the Rugby League Players Association announced a Dream Team. The team was selected by the players, who each cast one vote for each position.

Individual awards

Dally M Medal Awards Night

The following awards were presented at the Dally M Medal Awards ceremony in Sydney on the night of 28 September.

Dally M Medal Player of the Year: Raecene McGregor ( Sydney Roosters)

Captain of the Year: Isabelle Kelly ( Sydney Roosters)

Coach of the Year: John Strange ( Sydney Roosters)

Provan-Summons Medal: Toni Hunt ( Brisbane Broncos)

Rookie of the Year: Jesse Southwell ( Newcastle Knights)

Try of the Year: Tarryn Aiken for Brisbane Broncos versus Sydney Roosters (27 August 2022).

Tackle of the Year: Tarryn Aiken for Brisbane Broncos on Jessica Sergis of the Sydney Roosters (27 August 2022).

RLPA Players' Champion Awards

The following awards were voted for by NRLW players at the end of the season.

The Players' Champion: Raecene McGregor ( Sydney Roosters

Rookie of the Year: Gayle Broughton ( Parramatta Eels)

Dennis Tutty Award: Hannah Southwell ( Newcastle Knights)

Statistical awards

Highest Point scorer in regular season: Zahara Temara ( Sydney Roosters) 44 (1t 20g)

Top try scorers in regular season: Jayme Fressard ( Sydney Roosters) 5

Players and transfers

Player signings for the 2022 season began in May 2022.

Table last updated: 21 July 2022.