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V'landys confirms NRL's three-year, four-city global expansion plan
Peter V'landys (right) says the NRL won't stop at Las Vegas when it comes to its plans of expanding the game around the world. (Getty Images: Cameron Spencer)
Peter V'landys has revealed the NRL is hoping to play games in at least four new international cities across three years after its success in Las Vegas.
V'landys said Miami, Hong Kong, Tokyo, UAE and London loom as potential locations for future NRL fixtures.
The 2026 NRL season gets underway on Sunday afternoon with a double-header in Las Vegas. ABC Sport will live blog both matches.
The NRL will decide in the next three months whether to charge towards a global round, with gradual year-by-year international expansion the likely model.
The NRL has picked a bad time for global domination
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The NRL hasn’t been shy about their plans to globalise the code. They’re like the property owners with the best house on the street – complete with great renos and good extension plans – but deep down they just want to move streets.
They’ll struggle because their direct rival, the 15-man code, is already established and could deliver an international TV audience of 20 million per round of the new seven-round Nations Championships, which starts in July and concludes in November.
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‘People will watch’: US journos’ bold NRL call… and what has NFL stars ‘blown away’
A group of American journalists have urged Peter V’landys to consider bringing an entire NRL opening round to the United States – convinced such a bold play is the best way to crack the US sports market.
On the eve of this Saturday’s Allegiant Stadium blockbuster, NRL executives are bracing for is shaping to be a new record crowd for their bold Las Vegas experiment – which this year includes the Newcastle Knights, North Queensland Cowboys, Canterbury Bulldogs and St George Illawarra Dragons.
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