The 2023 NRL season is the 116th season of professional rugby league in Australia and the 26th season run by the
National Rugby League
The National Rugby League (NRL) is an Australasian rugby league club competition which contains clubs from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand. The NRL formed in 1998 as a joint partnership ...
.
Teams
For the 2023 season, the number of teams in the NRL has increased from sixteen to seventeen with the inclusion of a fourth Queensland-based club, the
Dolphins
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, based at
Redcliffe. It is the first time the number of Premiership teams has changed since
2007 when the
Gold Coast Titans
The Gold Coast Titans are a professional rugby league football club, based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. The club competes in the National Rugby League (NRL), Australia and New Zealand's national rugby league club competition. The ...
joined the competition.
Regular season
Bold – Home game
X – Bye
* – Golden point game
Opponent for round listed above margin
Ladder progression
*Numbers highlighted in green indicate that the team finished the round inside the top eight.
*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.
2023 Transfers
Source:
Players
References
{{National Rugby League seasons
2023 NRL season
Rugby league in Australia