The 2025 National Rugby League finals series is a tournament that was staged to determine the winner of the 2025 Telstra Premiership season. The series was played over four weekends in September and October, culminating in the 2025 NRL Grand Final on 5 October 2025.
The top eight teams from the 2025 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 2025 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.
Bracket
Matches HomeScoreAwayMatch InformationDate and time (Local)VenueRefereeAttendanceNine viewership QUALIFYING & ELIMINATION FINALS Melbourne Storm26–18 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs12 September, 19:50AAMI ParkAdam Gee22,117 1,010,000 New Zealand Warriors8–24 Penrith Panthers13 September, 18:05Go Media StadiumGrant Atkins24,524 665,000 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks20–10 Sydney Roosters13 September, 19:50Sharks StadiumTodd Smith12,842 786,000 Canberra Raiders28–29 Brisbane Broncos14 September, 16:05GIO StadiumAshley Klein25,523 1,054,000SEMI FINALS Canberra Raiders12-32 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks20 September, 19:50GIO StadiumGrant Atkins24,322 1,025,000 Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs26-46 Penrith Panthers21 September, 16:05Accor StadiumAshley Klein56,872 1,174,000PRELIMINARY FINALS Melbourne Storm22-14 Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks26 September, 19:50AAMI ParkAshley Klein29,233 1,471,000 Brisbane Broncos16-14 Penrith Panthers28 September, 16:05Suncorp StadiumGrant Atkins52,491 1,764,000
First Week: Qualifying and Elimination Finals
Second Week: Semi Finals
Third Week: Preliminary Finals
Grand Final
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