The 2017 NRL season was the 110th season of professional

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in Australia and the 20th season run by the

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. The season started in

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with the annual

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, and was followed by the All Stars Match, which was played at

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in Newcastle, and the

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. It marked the last time that the Anzac Test and City vs. Country representative matches were played.

Teams

The lineup of teams remained unchanged for the 11th consecutive year.

Pre-season

The 2017 pre-season featured the fourth edition of the

competition, held over a weekend at Auckland's

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in which the

Sydney Roosters The Sydney Roosters are an Australian professional Rugby League Football Club based in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) and parts of inner Sydney. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL) competition. The Roosters have won fifteen Ne ...

defeated the

Penrith Panthers The Penrith Panthers are an Australian professional rugby league football club based in the western Sydney suburb of Penrith that competes in the NRL. The team is based west of the centre of Sydney, at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Penrit ...

in the final. The All Stars match was held on February 10 at

in Newcastle. The

2017 World Club Series The 2017 World Club Series (also known as the 2017 Dacia World Club Series) was the third staging of the World Club Series and featured two Super League teams and two National Rugby League (NRL) teams. The series included the World Club Challe ...

took place in England with the Super League champions

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defeating the NRL premiers

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in the World Club Challenge match.

Regular season

Bold – Opposition's Home game
X – Bye
* – Golden point game
Opponent for round listed above margin

Ladder

Ladder progression

*Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top 8. *Numbers highlighted in blue indicates the team finished first on the ladder in that round. *Numbers highlighted in red indicates the team finished last place on the ladder in that round. *Underlined numbers indicate that the team had a bye during that round.

Finals series

† Match decided in extra time.

Chart

Grand Final

Player statistics and records

* Cameron Smith became the most prolific goal kicker in NRL history when he kicked his 943rd goal in Round 9. During the Finals he surpassed

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as the most capped player in NRL history with his 356th game and became the first player to kick 1,000 NRL goals. * Nathan Cleary, 19, broke the record for the youngest player to score 200 points in a season which was set by

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, 20, in 1974. Cleary also became the youngest player to be the season's leading points scorer since Harold Horder in 1913. *

Kirisome Auva'a Kirisome Auva'a (born 23 February 1992), also known by the nickname of "Somi", is a Samoan professional rugby league footballer who plays as a and er for the Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup. A Samoa international representative, he won t ...

scored the fastest try in NRL history in 13 seconds for

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against

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in Round 25. The following statistics are as of the conclusion of Round 26. Top 5 point scorers Top 5 try scorers Top 5 goal scorers Top 5 tacklers

Teams

Pre-season

Regular season

Ladder

Ladder progression

Finals series

Chart

Grand Final

Player statistics and records

2017 Transfers

Players

Coaches

References