The NRL Betting Info page is your home for the latest NRL odds, NRL betting tips, NRL predictions, round‑by‑round previews, and expert insights across every match of the season. From weekly NRL head‑to‑head markets and line betting to try‑scorer odds, same game multis, and full NRL futures betting, Ladbrokes gives punters the form, stats, and market movers they need to get set each week. Whether you’re chasing value in the weekend fixtures, tracking NRL ladder odds, or diving into major events like State of Origin betting, this page delivers all the key NRL betting information in one place — fast, fresh, and built for punters.
The NRL run to September tightens in Round 22, with the in‑form Cowboys hosting the Roosters in a genuine ladder‑shaping opener, the Dolphins chasing a top‑four boost against a Dragons side limping towards the finish, and the Bulldogs eyeing another scalp as the injury‑hit Storm fight to keep their season alive. The Titans’ resurgence threatens a wobbling Warriors outfit on the Gold Coast, Canberra’s four‑game surge meets a stern Mudgee test against Penrith, and the Knights look to capitalise on Brisbane’s slide despite their own injury carnage. Cronulla, the hottest team in the competition, aim to keep rolling at home against an undermanned Rabbitohs squad, before the round closes with the Tigers and Eels in a bottom‑four clash that still carries intrigue despite its lack of finals relevance. With six weeks left and form lines shifting everywhere, Round 22 offers punters no shortage of value across the board when it comes to betting on the NRL this weekend.
Thursday July 30, 7:50pm (AEST), Queensland Country Bank Stadium, Townsville
Cowboys to Cover the Line (+5.5) @ $1.90
The North Queensland Cowboys and Sydney Roosters will play out a pivotal clash at Queensland Country Bank Stadium on Thursday night. The Cowboys boosted their finals chances with an 18-10 victory over rival Brisbane on Saturday and now face a favourable run home, with four of their remaining opponents sitting in the bottom half of the ladder entering Round 22. Meanwhile, the Roosters claimed a fifth consecutive win, edging the Knights 23-22 on Friday night courtesy of a Daly Cherry-Evans field goal. The victory lifted them into second place ahead of the Warriors. Reed Mahoney is out with a concussion for the Cowboys, meaning Soni Luke starts at hooker. Griffin Neame will miss through suspension, so John Bateman returns to the interchange. Tommy Talau and Hugo Savala come into the Roosters’ backline for Daniel Tupou and Billy Smith. These sides have already met once this season, with North Queensland winning 18-12 during Magic Round.
Tip of the Week: SGM – Sharks to Beat the Rabbitohs by 13+ / Total Points OVER 50.5 / William Kennedy Anytime Tryscorer
Cronulla Sharks
vs
South Sydney Rabbitohs
Sunday August 2, 2:00pm (AEST), Ocean Protect Stadium, Sydney
SGM – Sharks to Win by 13+ / Total Points OVER 50.5 / William Kennedy Anytime Tryscorer @ $5.50
Cronulla roll into Round 22 as the NRL’s hottest outfit, riding eight wins from their past nine and fresh off a 48–12 demolition of Manly, and they’ll look to keep that momentum humming when they host South Sydney. Tom Hazelton returns and Addin Fonua‑Blake strengthens the Sharks’ pack, while Nicho Hynes continues a blistering run reminiscent of his Dally M season. Souths arrive with four wins from six but remain wildly inconsistent, scraping past the Storm after a heavy loss in Canberra, and they’ll again be without several key stars despite welcoming Sean Keppie and reshuffling their middle rotation. The Rabbitohs snapped a five‑game losing streak against Cronulla earlier this year, but the Sharks have dominated this matchup at home, winning six of the last seven at Ocean Protect Stadium. With Cronulla surging and Souths battling to keep their finals push intact, this shapes as another stern test for the visitors and a prime chance for the Sharks to extend their premiership‑threat credentials.
NRL odds correct as of 02/08/2026 and subject to change.
The NRL or National Rugby League is the leading Rugby League competition anywhere in the world.
Featuring 16 NRL teams from around Australia and one from New Zealand, the Telstra NRL Premiership season runs from early March until the first Sunday of October when the NRL Grand Final draws record crowds in attendance and nationwide viewership.
NRL history shows the competition as we know it started as the NSWRL (New South Wales Rugby League) in 1908 before the current NRL formation was created post-Super League War in 1998. States in Australia represented in the NRL team lists are: New South Wales (10), Queensland (4) as of 2023 with the latest expansion club the Redcliffe Dolphins, Victoria (1) and Canberra (1). The other team in the NRL is the New Zealand Warriors.
The Penrith Panthers are the most successful NRL club of the modern era enjoying a dynastic reign of four straight Grand Final victories from 2021-2024.
The 2026 NRL season runs from 28 February to 4 October 2026, featuring 17 teams, a Las Vegas season opener, a full 27-round draw, and a finals series for the top eight. The year also includes the NRL Pre-Season Challenge, Magic Round, and a three-game State of Origin series returning to Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
Broncos enter as reigning NRL premiers after securing their seventh title in 2025.
Season: 119th
2026 NRL Season Start Date: Sunday March 1, 2026 (Australian date)
2026 NRL Grand Final Date: Sunday October 4, 2026
2026 NRL Minor Premiers: TBD
2026 Premiers: TBD
2026 NRL Season Overview
Key Dates
Season start: 28 February 2026
Season end: 4 October 2026
Format: 27‑round regular season + finals series
Teams: 17 clubs (unchanged for the fourth straight year)
Las Vegas Season Opener
The NRL again launches its season in the United States with a triple‑header in Las Vegas, headlined by:
Knights vs Cowboys (official season opener)
Bulldogs vs Dragons
Plus a Super League clash: Hull KR vs Leeds Rhinos
Pre‑Season Challenge
Clubs warm up through the 2026 NRL Pre‑Season Challenge, running from 7–22 February, with trial matches across three weeks as teams finalise their line‑ups.
Teams & Structure
The 17 participating clubs include:
10 NSW teams
4 Queensland teams
1 team each from Victoria, ACT, and New Zealand
The season follows the standard NRL format, with the top eight progressing to the finals.
The current NRL teams are the:
Brisbane Broncos
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Canberra Raiders
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
Gold Coast Titans
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
Melbourne Storm
Newcastle Knights
New Zealand Warriors
Parramatta Eels
Penrith Panthers
Redcliffe Dolphins (first season in 2023)
South Sydney Rabbitohs
St George Illawarra Dragons,
Sydney Roosters
Wests Tigers
North Queensland Cowboys
Of these the two foundation NRL clubs inaugurated in 1908 are the Sydney Roosters and the South Sydney Rabbitohs. The Wests Tigers, founded in 2000, meanwhile comprise of two other foundations clubs that merged together: Western Suburbs Magpies and Balmain Tigers.
The Redcliffe Dolphins are the latest professional Rugby League team making their NRL debut in 2023.
The NRL Premiership was previously composed of a 26-week regular season and the NRL Draw – what teams are playing when and where – is usually announced in November of the previous year.
For the first time in 2018 the NRL Regular Season consisted of just 25 rounds and each team got just a single bye instead of two.
As of 2023 there are now 27 rounds in the regular NRL season with 17 clubs now in play following the debut of the Redcliffe Dolphins. Teams will play 24 home and away matches and receive three byes throughout the regular season.
The 27 NRL Rounds are followed by four exciting weeks of NRL Finals football pitting the eight highest placed teams on the NRL Ladder up against each other across August – October.
The NRL Grand Final then decides the Premiership Winners for that season in a do-or-die 80 minutes of Rugby League action. As well as the standard, finals and grand final season there is also representative NRL football played during that time headlined by the three match State Of Origin series between the Queensland Maroons and the New South Wales Blues.
Other representative NRL games played are the Trans-Tasman test and the now defunct City-Country clash, which was scrapped after 2017.
Since the current NRL format was inaugurated in 1998 the team with the most NRL Premiership wins is the Penrith Panthers (1991, 2003, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
The Sydney Roosters and the Melbourne Storm follow.
Six-time Grand Final NRL winners the Melbourne Storm were stripped of their 2007 and 2009 Premierships titles due to breaches of the salary cap but secured an official third Premiership with their easy 2017 NRL Grand Final win over the Cowboys (34 – 6) and won again in 2020 over the Panthers 26 – 20.
NRL betting is some of the best sports betting punters can enjoy with odds open on everything from the overall NRL Premiership winner to round-by-round markets. Some of the most anticipated NRL odds are those offered on the Clive Churchill Medal, the award given to the player deemed to be that year’s NRL Grand Final man-of-the-match.
The NRL odds on the annual NRL Telstra Premiership competition are some of the most highly sought after sports betting odds in Australia. The NRL Premiership season runs from early March through until the premier Rugby League betting event of the year, the NRL Grand Final on the last Sunday of September.
There are now 27 regular NRL Round betting opportunities for punters plus the NRL finals and Grand Final to enjoy a bet on and increase the excitement of the game. There are also a range of specialty NRL odds on offer throughout the season including those on the Dally M Awards and Clive Churchill Medal winner.
NRL betting markets range from the head-to-head odds on offer for the weekly fixtures across the NRL draw to exotic markets on each game like First Try Scorer and Winning Margin odds. All of this plus the futures NRL Premiership odds available all season where you can tip and select the team to take out the entire competition with a Grand Final win.
NRL markets are updated weekly and offer odds for all the games including the popular line betting options.
NRL BET TYPES
Below we explain some of our most popular NRL bet types and rugby league betting offers.
NRL Head-to-Head Betting
Head-to-head betting is simply pitting one team against the other with odds for both clubs to win a game. In most head-to-head markets there is an underdog and a favourite with the NRL odds determined by many factors like their previous form over the season, their record against that specific club over NRL history, home ground advantage and the NRL team ins and outs for the round.
NRL Line Betting
Like head-to-head NRL odds, line betting is open on every single match across the NRL draw. The line is the winning spread of points posted a club must either win or lose by for you to collect. For example, if the Brisbane Broncos are at +4.5 @ $2 that means they must beat the team they are playing that round by more than 4.5 points for you to win.
NRL Premiership Betting
The futures NRL Premiership betting markets list the price of each team to win the Grand Final. These odds are affected by the NRL results of each round and change weekly. As the season moves along the prices on those clubs at the top of the NRL ladder shorten and those in danger of missing out on a NRL finals bid lengthen.
NRL Minor Premiership Betting
The NRL Minor Premiership odds are the prices offered for each club to take out that season’s Minor Premiership and finish top of the NRL Ladder after all 27 rounds of the regular season have been played and won. The Sydney Roosters have won the most Rugby League minor premierships throughout history including four NRL minor premierships in 2004, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
NRL Try Scorer Betting
In each game, a popular bet to make is in the first try scorer market there are NRL odds on the top try scorer and first try scorer of the match. There is now also the option of the season’s top try scorer, so the player to score the most individual tries across the entire season.
NRL Top 8 & Top 4 Betting
The NRL Top 8 and Top 4 refer to the teams to finish in the top one – eight positions on the ladder after the 27 rounds of the regular season. Clubs need to finish inside the top eight to make the NRL Finals Series and get a chance of taking out the Premiership title. There are plenty of different markets around this including individual odds on your favourite NRL team to make either the Top 4 or Top 8. There are also odds on offer for All 3 Teams (selected by the bookies) to make the Top 8 and Both Teams (selected by the bookies) to make the Top 4. Similarly, you can get NRL markets on teams to Miss the Top 8 and even to finish with the wooden spoon (last position).
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