Highest Rugby League Attendances Ever

The 50 biggest crowds ever recorded at a Tier-1 rugby league match, worldwide.

Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

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The biggest crowd ever recorded at a rugby league match: 107,999, for the 1999 NRL Grand Final (Melbourne Storm 20-18 St. George Illawarra). Ranked from every Tier-1 match dataset this site has — Grand Finals, Challenge Cup Finals, Rugby League World Cup matches, Super League Grand Finals, and NRL/Super League finals-series matches.

#	Attendance	Match	Competition	Venue
1	107,999	Melbourne Storm 20-18 St. George Illawarra	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Stadium Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
2	98,536	St Helens 21-2 Wigan	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
3	97,939	Castleford 11-6 Salford	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
4	97,801	Wigan 28-24 Hull FC	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
5	96,000	Leeds 14-12 St Helens	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
6	95,255	Castleford 7-2 Wigan	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
7	95,050	Bradford Northern 12-0 Halifax	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
8	95,000	Hull Kingston Rovers 10-5 Hull FC	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
9	94,672	St Helens 12-6 Wigan	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
10	94,277	Brisbane Broncos 14-6 Sydney Roosters	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Stadium Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
11	94,273	Wigan 32-12 Halifax	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
12	94,262	Wigan 10-0 Barrow	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
13	94,249	Warrington 19-0 Widnes	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
14	94,218	Widnes 12-3 Wakefield Trinity	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
15	92,496	Widnes 18-9 Hull Kingston Rovers	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
16	92,147	Hull FC 14-14 (drawn; replay 18-9) Widnes	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London / Elland Road, Leeds
17	91,465	Wigan 8-3 Bradford Northern	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
18	91,267	Halifax 19-18 St Helens	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
19	90,414	Newcastle 30-24 Parramatta	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Stadium Australia, Sydney, New South Wales
20	89,982	St Helens 20-5 Widnes	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
21	89,588	Huddersfield 15-10 St Helens	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
22	89,495	St Helens 16-13 Leeds	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
23	89,016	Wigan 20-16 Hunslet	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
24	87,100	Leeds 11-10 Wakefield Trinity	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
25	85,514	Leigh 24-7 Leeds	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
26	85,217	Warrington Wolves 30-6 Leeds Rhinos	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
27	85,098	Widnes 14-7 Warrington	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
28	84,969	Featherstone Rovers 14-12 Hull FC	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
29	84,492	Wakefield Trinity 25-10 Wigan	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
30	84,488	Widnes 13-5 Hull Kingston Rovers	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
31	84,241	St Helens 30-8 Catalans Dragons	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
32	83,833	South Sydney 30-6 Canterbury-Bankstown	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
33	83,625	Cronulla-Sutherland 14-12 Melbourne Storm	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
34	82,976	Melbourne Storm 14-4 Canterbury-Bankstown	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
35	82,922	Sydney Roosters 14-8 Canberra Raiders	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
36	82,821	St Helens 28-16 Hull FC	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
37	82,758	North Queensland 17-16 Brisbane Broncos	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
38	82,688	Sydney Roosters 21-6 Melbourne Storm	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
39	82,538	Melbourne Storm 23-16 Parramatta	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales
40	82,453	Wests Tigers 30-16 North Queensland	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Telstra Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales
41	82,415	Penrith Panthers 28-12 Parramatta	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Accor Stadium, Sydney, NSW
42	82,334	St. George Illawarra 32-8 Sydney Roosters	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
43	82,134	Castleford 15-14 Hull Kingston Rovers	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London
44	82,127	Canterbury-Bankstown 16-13 Sydney Roosters	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Telstra Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales
45	81,988	Manly-Warringah 24-10 New Zealand Warriors	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
46	81,947	Penrith Panthers 26-24 Brisbane Broncos	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Accor Stadium, Sydney, NSW
47	81,841	Warrington 4-4 (drawn; replay 8-4) Halifax	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London / Odsal, Bradford
48	81,491	Sydney Roosters 26-18 Manly-Warringah	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	ANZ Stadium, Sydney, NSW
49	81,392	Melbourne Storm 34-8 Manly-Warringah	NRL/ARL/NSWRL Grand Final	Telstra Stadium, Sydney, New South Wales
50	81,263	Wakefield Trinity 12-6 Huddersfield	Challenge Cup Final	Wembley Stadium, London

Figures come from the competition's own official/reported attendance where our structured match data records one — not every match in every competition this site covers has an attendance figure on record, so this ranks only the matches where one is known. A handful of historic Challenge Cup Finals went to a replay after a drawn first game; the drawn game's own attendance (usually the higher of the two) is what's ranked here, not the replay's.

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