2021 NRL Grand Final
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.
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Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, which hosted the game due to COVID-19 measures in Sydney | |||||||||||||
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| Date | 3 October 2021 | ||||||||||||
| Stadium | Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane | ||||||||||||
| Location | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||||
| Clive Churchill Medal | Nathan Cleary | ||||||||||||
| National anthem | Kate Miller-Heidke | ||||||||||||
| Pre-Match Entertainment | Kate Miller-Heidke, Ian Moss, The Stafford Brothers, Timmy Trumpet, William Barton | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Gerard Sutton, Todd Smith (Touch Judge) David Munro (Touch Judge) | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 39,322 | ||||||||||||
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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 last game to be commentated by long-time announcer Ray Warren.