To come in 2025
PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIP RUGBY LEAGUE
As the 2025 NRL and NRLW seasons conclude, the great game of Rugby League goes international as Wide World of Sports adds a cherry on top, when the Pacific Championship pits the best nations in the Pacific against each other across four big weeks of action.
Teams from Australia (Jillaroos), New Zealand, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga and Cook Islands will line up each weekend from Saturday, October 18 through to November 9, with 14 hard-hitting fixtures for Pacific supremacy.
Every game is available live and free on the 9Network and 9Now.
RUGBY LEAGUE ASHES AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND
The likes of Reece Walsh, Nathan Cleary, Cameron Munster and Mark Nawaqanitawase will combine their freakish talents in the green and gold Kangaroos jersey, for a three test Ashes series against England from October 26, on Channel 9 and 9Now.
Making its return after a 22 year absence, rugby league Ashes games will be played on three consecutive Saturday nights with games at Wembley in London (Oct 26), Liverpool (Nov 1) and Leeds (Nov 8).
Join the NRL on Nine commentary team for live and free coverage when Australia’s best players from the NRL take on a fierce England outfit, hell bent on claiming an underdog series win in front of their vocal home supporters.
2026
RUGBY LEAGUE
After the highest rating season in history, NRL on Nine is back in 2026 for another smash hit featuring rockstar Reece Walsh and the premiership winning Brisbane Broncos, and it’s available live and free on Channel 9, or to stream on 9Now.
Home of the biggest games and the biggest names, Nine’s Wide World of Sports will bring the season to life in February from Las Vegas for opening weekend when the Bulldogs take on the Dragons.
Viewers will receive Thursday Night, Friday Night and Sunday Arvo NRL throughout the regular season and exclusive coverage of Men’s and Women’s State of Origin and the NRL Grand Final, plus the biggest magazine show in the game - 100% Footy, on the 9Network and 9Now.
The NRLW and the record breaking Women’s State of Origin series returns, while we kick the rugby league year off with the Indigenous v Maori All Stars.
Hosted by James Bracey, Danika Mason and Emma Lawrence, the best lineup of rugby league commentators in the game will assemble on Nine’s Wide World of Sports for the 2026 NRL Telstra Premiership.
Rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns, premiership-winning captains Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Brad Fittler, Paul Gallen, Darren Lockyer, multiple premiership winners Phil Gould AM and Billy Slater and dual internationals Ruan Sims and Allana Ferguson will provide the best insight and analysis there is.
Mat Thompson , Brenton Speed and Peter Psaltis will call the action for the NRL & NRLW, in combination with hosts and sideline reporter Marlee Silva.
Straight off the field and onto NRL on Nine throughout the season will be the playing ambassadors Nathan Cleary and Millie Boyle, plus all the biggest characters from the playing ranks.
STATE OF ORIGIN 2026
The biggest rivalry in Australian sport is exclusive to Nine, when the Men’s and Women’s 2026 Ampol State of Origin is exclusive, live and free on Channel 9HD and 9Now.
Origin offers unmatched drama and passion that captivates record-breaking audiences every year, and fans can watch all six games.
In the Men’s series, after a heart warming series deciding Game 3 victory led by Cameron Munster, the Queensland Maroons will need to fend off the NSW Blues, who will be eager to restore state pride.
After the runaway success of the first three-game series for Women’s Origin, the A-list NSW Blues squad will defend their crown against a Maroons outfit with plenty to prove.
With a lineup of the greatest players in Origin history to call the action, and unprecedented access to the players, coaches, team buses, sheds and team camps, there’s simply no place like Nine’s Wide World of Sports come Origin time.
