Teams 16 Points scored 7874 | Matches played 189 Attendance 2877018 | |
Premiers Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks (1st title) Minor premiers Melbourne Storm (2nd title) | ||
The 2016 NRL season consists of 26 weekly regular season rounds starting on Thursday 3 March, and concluded on Sunday 2 October with the Grand Final.
Contents
Round 20
The Sharks beat Newcastle to win 15 games in a row.
Round 22
The Sharks suffer their first defeat since Round 3 against Manly
For the fifth year the NRL uses the finals system previously implemented by the ARL competition from the 1990s (also used as the AFL final eight system) to decide the grand finalists from the top eight finishing teams. were featured in the preceding finals series.
Qualifying And Elimination Finals
1st Elimination Final
1st Qualifying Final
2nd Qualifying Final
2nd Elimination Final
Semi Finals
1st Semi Final
Match decided in extra time.
2nd Semi Final
Preliminary Finals
1st Preliminary Final
2nd Preliminary Final
References
2016 NRL season results Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA