The 2024 National Rugby League finals series was a tournament staged to determine the winner of the 2024 Telstra Premiership season. The series was played over four weekends in September and October, culminating in the 2024 NRL Grand Final on 6 October 2024.
The top eight teams from the 2024 NRL season qualified for the finals series. NRL finals series were continuously played under this format since 2012.
Qualification
Finals structure
The system used for the 2024 NRL finals series is a final eight system. The top four teams in the eight receive the "double chance" when they play in week-one qualifying finals, such that if a top-four team loses in the first week it still remains in the finals, playing a semi-final the next week against the winner of an elimination final. The bottom four of the eight play knock-out games – only the winners survive and move on to the next week. Home ground advantage goes to the team with the higher ladder position in the first two weeks and to the qualifying final winners in the third week.
In the second week, the winners of the qualifying finals receive a bye to the third week. The losers of the qualifying final plays the elimination finals winners in a semi-final. In the third week, the winners of the semi-finals from week two play the winners of the qualifying finals in the first week. The winners of those matches move on to the Grand Final.
Fixtures
Bracket
Matches HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and time (Local)VenueRefereeAttendance QUALIFYING & ELIMINATION FINALS Penrith Panthers 30–10 Sydney Roosters 13 September, 19:50 BlueBet Stadium Ashley Klein 21,483 Melbourne Storm 37–10 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 14 September, 16:05 AAMI Park Gerard Sutton 26,326 North Queensland Cowboys 28–16 Newcastle Knights 14 September, 19:50 Queensland Country Bank Stadium Todd Smith 24,861 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 22–24 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 15 September, 16:05 Accor Stadium Grant Atkins 50,714 SEMI FINALS Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 26–18 North Queensland Cowboys 20 September, 19:50 Allianz Stadium Ashley Klein 19,124 Sydney Roosters 40–16 Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 21 September, 19:50 Allianz Stadium Grant Atkins 40,818 PRELIMINARY FINALS Melbourne Storm 48–18 Sydney Roosters 27 September, 19:50 AAMI Park Grant Atkins 29,213 Penrith Panthers 26–6 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 28 September, 19:50 Accor Stadium Ashley Klein 33,753
First Week: Qualifying and Elimination Finals
Second Week: Semi Finals
Third Week: Preliminary Finals
Grand Final
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