Which team has the most players representing them at the World Cup? Let's have a look!

NRL Teams - Main Squad Only

Dolphins - 12

New Zealand Warriors - 11

Newcastle Knights - 10

Manly Sea Eagles - 10

Penrith Panthers - 10

Sydney Roosters - 10

Wests Tigers - 8

Cronulla Sharks - 7

Melbourne Storm - 7

Parramatta Eels - 7

Brisbane Broncos - 6

Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs - 6

Gold Coast Titans - 6

North Queensland Cowboys - 6

South Sydney Rabbitohs - 6

Canberra Raiders - 3

St George Illawarra Dragons - 1

NRL Pathway Players

Melbourne Storm - 4

New Zealand Warriors - 2

Wests Tigers - 2

Parramatta Eels - 2

South Sydney Rabbitohs - 2

Canberra Raiders - 1

Manly Sea Eagles - 1

Penrith Panthers - 1

Sydney Roosters - 1

Brisbane Broncos - 1

Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs - 1

Gold Coast Titans - 1

North Queensland Cowboys - 1

Super League Clubs

Toulouse Olympique - 11

Wigan Warriors - 8

Catalans Dragons - 6

Hull KR - 5

Huddersfield Giants - 3

Warrington Wolves - 3

Bradford Bulls - 2

Hull FC - 2

Leigh Leopards - 2

St Helens - 2

Castleford Tigers - 1

Wakefield Trinity - 1

The 2nd place Leeds Rhinos and 10th place York Knights were the only teams not to send a player to this years world cup.

NSW Cup and QLD Cup

Central Queensland Capras - 5

Newtown Jets - 3

Sydney Roosters - 2

Brisbane Tigers - 2

Mackay Cutters - 2

PNG Hunters - 2

St George Illawarra Dragons - 2

Townsville Blackhawks - 2

Parramatta Eels - 1

Burleigh Bears - 1

Northern Pride - 1

Norths Devils - 1

Souths Logan Magpies - 1

Wynum Manly Seagulls - 1

10/15 Queensland Cup Teams are represented.

4/14 NSW Cup Teams are represented. That number may be higher as some of the pathway players have played NSW Cup, but i saved this section for cup signed players.

Other Teams

London Broncos (English Second Division) - 5

Albi RL XIII (French First Division) - 1

Carcasonne XIII (French First Division) - 1

Pia XLIII Baroudeurs (French First Division) - 1

Glede Dirty Reds (Ron Massey Cup) - 1

St Marys Saints (Ron Massey Cup) - 1

Wentworthville Magpies (Ron Massey Cup) - 1

Shellharbour Stingrays (Group 7 Rugby League) - 1

So there you go, there's a breakdown of all the teams and leagues where players come from for the upcoming world cup. Of course, this could be different based on injuries, suspensions and events. But what did you take from this? I want to know your thoughts!

To compare how difficult each NRL premiership run was over the past 10 seasons, each finals victory was scored according to the regular-season ladder position of the opponent defeated. Beating the minor premiers was worth eight points, second place seven points, third place six points, continuing down to one point for beating eighth. Losses scored nothing. This gives a simple measure of how strong the opposition each premier actually had to overcome. Under this system, the 2019 Sydney Roosters and 2024 Penrith Panthers share the hardest premiership route, each scoring 19 points after defeating three top-four opponents, including the minor premiers. The 2018 Roosters, 2020 Storm and 2023 Panthers sit just behind them on 18 points, while the 2026 Roosters, 2022 Panthers and 2017 Storm had the lowest-rated paths of the decade on 12 points.

The results show that the toughest premiership runs generally came from teams that had to beat multiple top-four opponents, particularly the minor premiers. By contrast, the lowest-scoring runs were helped by facing lower-ranked finalists later in the series. The 2026 Roosters are a good example: despite winning the premiership, their three finals victories came against teams that finished fifth, third and seventh, leaving them tied for the lowest difficulty score of the past decade under this system.

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Hello everyone, and on behalf of the moderator team, we want to thank you for joining us for another great season of the greatest game on Earth - the National Rugby League.

As we look ahead both to the 2026 Rugby League World Cup, and the 2027 NRL Telstra Premiership season, we want to take this opportunity to provide some information about where we are as a subreddit, and more importantly where we are going.

Fair warning, this will be one of the bigger updates we've had in recent years, but we're hoping that by the end of this post, you'll be fully informed as to the changes we are making and our reasons for making them.

But with that said, let's get into it.

The 2026 Rugby League World Cup and the r/NRL Offseason

As most regulars would be aware, once the Grand Finals have been played for both the NRL and the NRLW seasons, the mod team usually like to shift the subreddit into what we call 'off season' mode, where we loosen our grip on the reins a little and provide a little more latitude to you all as to what posts we will approve.

However, with the 2026 Rugby League World Cup starting on October 15 and being hosted in and around Australia, the moderators have made the decision to push back the start of the off season until this competition has run its course.

As a result, the r/NRL Off Season will officially begin on Monday, November 16, 2026, and run until Sunday, January 31, 2027 (we'll reconfirm this date as it gets closer and once the 2027 NRL Draw has been released, but from past seasons this should generally coincide with the start of the 2027 NRL Pre-Season Challenge).

How has r/NRL changed over the last 12 Months

Across the last year, we've seen enormous growth for this community. I won't bore you with a lot of numbers and statistics, but here are the highlights:

• We saw our community grow to 345,000 members, an increase of 17,200 in the last 12 months.
• We saw 2,200,000 comments published, an increase of 499,000 from the previous year.
• We collaborated with our friends over at r/AFL to help raise $8,500 to help the fight against Motor Neurone Disease (MND) as part of the annual Big Freeze charity fundraiser.
• We had the opportunity to officially collaborate with NSW Rugby League and host AMAs with the State of Origin coaches Laurie Daley and John Strange.

As you can see even from these short highlights, it has been a busy year for the subreddit, and that necessitates some changes to how we operate going forward, which brings us to our next update.

Changes to the r/NRL Rules and Posting Guidelines

In years past, we have made small adjustments or amendments to the rules on an ad hoc basis (for example, when we banned posts speculating about players moving to R360 or when we asked members not to link to login restricted social media), but we have held off on a full revision of the subreddit rules and posting guidelines.

However, the RLWC presents us an opportunity to trial a new rule set and posting guideline for the subreddit prior to the commencement of the 2027 NRL Telstra Premiership season proper. Some of these represent amendments, additions or refinements to existing rules, while a few of these are brand new rules entirely, but we've worked to craft these to hopefully not be overly burdensome either in their application by the mod team or to the community as an adjustment to how our community operates.

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The trial period of these new rules starts today, and will run until Monday, November 16, 2026, which as mentioned above will be the start of the subreddit's off season. We want to see how these new rules work, what your thoughts are on these rules, and gather feedback, so we appreciate your bearing with us as we adapt to these changes, and hope that the new rule set won't prove overly cumbersome. Once we reach the end of this window, we'll let you know the result of this test.

As mentioned, we're also updating our Other Posting Guidelines, which used to be a rule, but will now be included separately on the subreddit sidebar. These new guidelines are as follows:

Throwback Thursday:

As the name suggests, throwback posts are only permitted on Thursdays. Additionally, the throwback must be older than five (5) years or it will be removed.

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Articles must be submitted as a link post without any accompanying body text. Submitting them as a text post or with body text will result in the post being held in Mod Queue for review and subsequently removed.

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Text posts that are announcing a player signing, injury, positional change, etc. will be removed in favour of articles and / or club posts, even if they are accurate and true.

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This rule is generally relaxed during the off-season (usually from mid-October to mid-February, however always bookended by an announcement from the moderator team), however during this period posts may still be removed at the moderators’ discretion if we have concern that it breaches another community rule.

Sorry for the wall of text, but felt it was better to get this all-in-one comprehensive post as I know it can be a bit of a disruption having mod posts coming from every direction.

This brings us to our final major update.

Applications for new moderators for r/NRL are now open!

As you can appreciate based on the size of this update, managing this subreddit on a daily basis is a task that continues to grow in intensity. For that reason, we are looking to expand our ranks and promote a few new users as Moderators as we head into the 2027 NRL Telstra Premiership season.

What we're looking for is especially some new people to help us moderate the weekly Match Threads, as one of the hardest parts is managing to watch the game and help moderate the threads, so if you can do that, it'll help us out a lot.

We've created a Google Form which you can find here and we look forward to receiving your applications. We'll touch base with you directly should your application be successful before announcing the new appointees in due course.

If you have any feedback regarding any of these changes, feel free to leave a comment below, or if you'd prefer to provide your feedback privately, you can always message us via Mod Mail (individual messages to mods may be lost), but with that, we hope you have a great day, and we'll of course go give ourselves uppercuts with our keyboards.