NRL 2002

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The NRL 2002 was the fifth season of the National Rugby League , the Australian-New Zealand rugby league championship. In the fifth season, the number of teams rose from 14 to 15, as the South Sydney Rabbitohs were able to prevail in court against their expulsion from the year 2000 and so participated in the game again. The first place in the table after the end of the regular season occupied the New Zealand Warriors . They lost in the final 8:30 against the Sydney Roosters , who won the NRL for the first time.

table

See NRL 2002 / Results for a full list of all regular season results.
  • Playoff participation
    • team Games Victories Unent. Ndlg. Game
    points     		Diff. Table
    points
    01. New Zealand colors.svg New Zealand Warriors 24 17th 0 7th 688: 454 + 234 38
    02. Newcastle colors.svg Newcastle Knights 24 17th 0 7th 724: 498 + 226 38
    03. Brisbane colors.svg Brisbane Broncos 24 16 1 7th 672: 425 + 247 37
    04th Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Sydney Roosters 24 15th 1 8th 621: 405 + 216 35
    05. Cronulla colors.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks 24 15th 0 9 653: 597 + 56 34
    06th Parramatta colors.svg Parramatta Eels 24 10 2 12 531: 440 + 91 26th
    07th St. George colors.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 24 9 3 12 632: 546 + 86 25th
    08th. Canberra colors.svg Canberra Raiders 24 10 1 13 471: 641 - 170 25th
    09. Northern Eagles colors.svg Northern Eagles 24 10 0 14th 503: 740 - 237 24
    010. Melbourne colours.svg Melbourne Storm 24 9 1 14th 556: 586 - 30 23
    011. North Queensland colours.svg North Queensland Cowboys 24 8th 0 16 496: 803 - 307 20th
    012. Penrith colors.svg Penrith Panthers 24 7th 0 17th 546: 654 - 108 18th
    013. Wests Tigers colours.svg West Tigers 24 7th 0 17th 498: 642 - 144 18th
    014th South Sydney colours.svg South Sydney Rabbitohs 24 5 0 19th 385: 817 - 432 14th
    015th Canterbury colors.svg Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs 24 20th 1 3 707: 435 + 272 8th*
    • Since each team had two byes this season, 4 points were added to the normal number of points after the season.

    * Canterbury-Bankstown 37 points were deducted for violating the salary cap.

    Playoffs

    Qualification / elimination playoffs

    September 13th
    7:30 pm     		Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Sydney Roosters 32:20 Canterbury colors.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Sydney Football Stadium , Sydney
    Spectators: 25,366
    Referee: Paul Simpkins
    (12: 8)
    Report
    September 14,
    5:30 p.m.     		Brisbane colors.svg Brisbane Broncos 24:14 Parramatta colors.svg Parramatta Eels ANZ Stadium , Brisbane
    Spectators: 19,115
    Referee: Sean Hampstead
    (6: 8)
    Report
    September 14,
    7:30 p.m.     		Newcastle colors.svg Newcastle Knights 22:26 St. George colors.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons Energy Australia Stadium , Newcastle
    Spectators: 21,051
    Referee: Bill Harrigan
    (12:14)
    report
    September 15,
    16:00     		New Zealand colors.svg New Zealand Warriors 36:20 Canberra colors.svg Canberra Raiders Ericsson Stadium , Auckland
    Spectators: 25,800
    Referee: Tim Mander
    (14:10)
    Report

    Quarter finals

    September 21,
    7:30 p.m.     		St. George colors.svg St. George Illawarra Dragons 24:40 Cronulla colors.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Sydney Football Stadium , Sydney
    Spectators: 31,783
    Referee: Bill Harrigan
    (18:12)
    Report
    September 22nd
    3pm     		Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Sydney Roosters 38: 12 Newcastle colors.svg Newcastle Knights Sydney Football Stadium , Sydney
    Spectators: 23,816
    Referee: Sean Hampstead
    (6: 6)
    Report

    Semifinals

    September 28,
    7:30 p.m.     		Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Sydney Roosters 16:12 Brisbane colors.svg Brisbane Broncos Sydney Football Stadium , Sydney
    Spectators: 28,251
    Referee: Bill Harrigan
    (8:12)
    report
    September 29th
    3pm     		New Zealand colors.svg New Zealand Warriors 16:10 Cronulla colors.svg Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks Telstra Stadium , Sydney
    Spectators: 45,782
    Referee: Tim Mander
    (6: 0)
    report

    Grand Final

    October 6, 2002
    7:00 p.m.     		Eastern Suburbs colors.svg Sydney Roosters 30: 8 New Zealand colors.svg New Zealand Warriors Telstra Stadium , Sydney
    Spectators: 80,130
    Referee: Bill Harrigan
    Attempts: Hegarty 23rd raised
    wing 58th raised
    Fitzgibbon 65th raised
    Flannery 71st raised
    Fletcher 75th
    raised elevations: Fitzgibbon (5/5)
    		 (6: 2)
    Report     		Attempts: Jones 46th
    increments: Cleary (1/1)
    Penalty kicks: Cleary (1/1) 29.
    1 Luke Phillips
    2 Brett Mullins
    4th Justin Hodges
    3 Shannon Hegarty
    5 Anthony Minichiello
    6th Brad Fittler (C)Captain of the crew
    7th Craig Wing
    8th Jason Cayless
    9 Simon Bonetti
    10 Peter Cusack
    14th Adrian Morley
    12 Craig Fitzgibbon
    13 Luke Ricketson
    Substitute:
    11 Bryan Fletcher
    15th Andrew Lomu
    16 Chris Flannery
    17th Michael Crocker
    1 Ivan Cleary
    2 Justin Murphy
    3 Clinton Toopi
    4th John Carlaw
    5 Francis Meli
    6th Motu Tony
    7th Stacey Jones (C)Captain of the crew
    8th Jerry Seu Seu
    9 PJ Marsh
    10 Mark Tookey
    11 Ali Lauiti'ti
    12 Awen Guttenbeil
    13 Kevin Campion
    Substitute:
    14th Lance Hohaia
    15th Richard Villasanti
    16 Wairangi Koopu
    17th Logan Swann

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