The 2022 NRL season was the 115th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 25th season run by the National Rugby League.
The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 16th consecutive year. This became the second longest stretch of time (after 1947âÂÂ1966, a span of 20 seasons) of a continuous line-up of teams in competition history (overtaking 15 seasons from 1967âÂÂ1981).
The 2022 pre-season for NRL teams featured 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.
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 Eureka Stadium in front of 5,127 people. 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.
Italics indicates a non-NRL club.
<sup>a</sup> 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.
<span style="font - size: 85 % ">Bold â Home game</span><br> <span style="font-size:85%">X â Bye</span><br> <span style="font-size:85%">* â Golden point game</span><br> <span style="font-size:85%">Opponent for round listed above margin</span>
<nowiki>*</nowiki> Match decided in golden point extra time.
The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 25.
Top 5 point scorers
Top 5 try scorers
Top 5 goal scorers
Top 5 tacklers
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