2025 Canberra Raiders season
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| 2025 Canberra Raiders season | ||||
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| NRL Rank | 1st (Minor Premiers) | |||
| Play-off result | Semi-finals | |||
| 2025 record | Wins: 19; losses: 5 | |||
| Points scored | For: 654; against: 506 | |||
| Team information | ||||
| CEO | Don Furner Jr. | |||
| Coach |  Ricky Stuart | |||
| Captain | ||||
| Stadium | GIO Stadium | |||
| Avg. attendance | 19,139[1] | |||
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The 2025 Canberra Raiders season was the 44th season in the club's history and in the National Rugby League. Coached by head coach Ricky Stuart and captained by Joseph Tapine, the team competed in the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership during the regular season and participated in the Pre-season Challenge in February.
On 30 August 2025, after defeating the Wests Tigers 24–10 at home, the Raiders won the Minor Premiership for the first time in 35 years, which was also their second Minor Premiership in club history.[2]
Squad changes
Transfers in
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Transfers out
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Pre-season
Canberra Raiders played the Penrith Panthers in Cronulla and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in Canberra as their pre-season fixtures. Both matches were part of the third edition of the NRL Pre-season Challenge.[3]
Win Draw Loss Fixtures
| Round 1: 8 February 2025 | Penrith Panthers  |
16–22 |  Canberra Raiders |
Cronulla | |
| 19:30 AEDT |
Tries: Fale  35' Lane 69' Lamont 71'Goals: Cole 0/1 Toelau 2/2  70', 73' |
Report |
Tries: Sasagi 26' Pattie 45', 48' N. Martin 64'Goals: Sanders 1/2 27' Cook 1/1 46' Skipps 1/1 66' |
Stadium: Sharks Stadium Attendance: 1,724 Referee: Belinda Sharpe |
| Round 2: 13 February 2025 | Canberra Raiders |
10–40 |  Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks |
Canberra | |
| 19:50 AEDT |
Tries: Strange 8' KrisXavier Savage|Savage 12'Goals: Fogarty 1/2 9' |
Report |
Tries: Hynes 24' Stonestreet 36' Fonua-Blake 45' Trindall 47' Ramien 50' Hau Tapuha 67' Vea'ila 76'Goals: Hynes 1/1 25' Trindall 4/4 37', 46', 49', 51' Atkinson 1/2 68' |
Stadium: GIO Stadium Attendance: 3,580 Referee: Liam Kennedy |
