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Penrith Panthers vs South Sydney Rabbitohs

Date
Sun 3rd October 2021 (UTC)
Sun 3rd October 2021 (Local)

Timestamp
2021-10-03T00:00:00

Time
00:00:00 UTC (18:35:00 Local)

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Australian National Rugby League

Season
2021

Round
200

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Brisbane
Australia
Suncorp Stadium
(39,322 Attendance)

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The 2021 NRL Grand Final was the conclusive and premiership-deciding game of the 2021 National Rugby League season in Australia. It was contested between the Penrith Panthers and the South Sydney Rabbitohs on Sunday 3 October at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. Penrith won the match 14–12 to claim their third premiership title, and their first since 2003. Penrith co-captain and halfback Nathan Cleary was awarded the Clive Churchill Medal as the official man of the match.

The event was held in Brisbane for the first time in the competition's history due to an ongoing COVID-19 lockdown in New South Wales which prompted the NRL to relocate it from Stadium Australia in Sydney, where every NRL Grand Final since 1999 had been hosted. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the match was attended by only 39,322 spectators because the Queensland Government limited Suncorp Stadium to seventy-five percent of its maximum capacity.

The match was preceded by the 2021 Queensland Cup preliminary finals and broadcast live throughout Australia by the Nine Network, with pre-match and half-time entertainment headlined by Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Moss, The Stafford Brothers, Timmy Trumpet, William Barton and a forty-piece Queensland orchestra.

This was the first ever NRL Grand Final between the Penrith Panthers and the South Sydney Rabbitohs, and the first time since 2014 that the Grand Final featured two Sydney-based clubs. The Penrith side aimed for a third premiership, after defeating Canberra Raiders in 1991 and Sydney Roosters in 2003. It was also Ivan Cleary's third Grand Final appearance as a coach, after losing with the New Zealand Warriors against Manly Sea Eagles in 2011, and losing with the Penirth side against Melbourne Storm in 2020. Meanwhile, the Rabbitohs were aiming for their twenty-second premiership victory; their last being against Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in 2014. It was also Wayne Bennett's tenth Grand Final appearance as a coach after winning seven of the previous nine; six with the Brisbane Broncos (1992, 1993, 1997 (SL), 1998, 2000, 2006) and one with the St. George Illawarra Dragons in 2010 while losing one of each with the Canberra Raiders against Manly Warringah Sea Eagles in 1987, and Brisbane Broncos against North Queensland Cowboys in 2015.

The Penrith side finished the 2021 regular season in second place after twenty-one wins and three losses. The South Sydney side finished third after twenty wins and four losses. During the regular season, the two teams faced each other twice. In round 11, the Panthers defeated the Rabbitohs 56–12 at Apex Oval. In round 23, the Panthers won 25–12 at Suncorp Stadium. However, in the first week of the Finals Series, South Sydney defeated Penrith 16–10 at Queensland Country Bank Stadium in the Qualifying Final and advanced straight to the Preliminary Finals two weeks later, beating Manly Warringah Sea Eagles 36–16 at Suncorp Stadium to advance to the Grand Final. After losing to Souths, Penrith defeated Parramatta Eels 8–6 in the Semi-Finals one week later at BB Print Stadium. The following week, Penrith defeated the minor premiers Melbourne Storm 10–6 in a major upset during the Preliminary Final at Suncorp Stadium then advanced to the Grand Final.


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South Sydney Rabbitohs @ Penrith Panthers

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