2025 NRL Club Memberships: The bargains and bucket list experiences up for grabs

An invite to join their club’s post-match inner sanctum or on-field guard of honour are up the top of many NRL fans’ bucket lists - and they are available for a price. We reveal the quirky perks up for grabs at every club.

They’re glamour clubs for a reason.

Sydney Roosters, Sydney FC and Hawthorn fans pay top dollar for high-end season tickets with ritzy inclusions, a look at club memberships shows.

After examining every membership option for season tickets across A-League, NRL and AFL, excluding the wild world of all-inclusive and corporate options, this masthead can reveal the quirky perks and pricing differences fans fork out for across three of Australia’s major football codes.

And in the ultra competitive world of club memberships, Newcastle sports fans win every time.

Novocastrians have access to the best value sports memberships in the country with Knights and Jets general admission season tickets among the lowest in the country.

In the saturated Sydney market which includes 14 sporting clubs across the three sports, the Roosters have the most expensive option of any NRL, AFL or A-League club with their Ultimate Membership.

SCROLL TO SEE EVERY NRL CLUB’S MOST EXPENSIVE 2025 MEMBERSHIP PACKAGE

For $3350 per year for one adult, fans get access to a long list of benefits including two tickets to the exclusive Captain’s Club for one home game at year, tickets to Gosford games, a personalised polo shirt, jersey and two tickets to the season launch, among others.

It also includes a hospitality package, although the details of which are left vague on the club’s website.

At the lowest end of their offering, Roosters fans pay $295 a season for general admission access to 12 home games, which equates to around $25 per game.

That ranks near the peak of the spectrum for NRL fans, alongside the Dolphins ($32), Sea Eagles ($31 per game) and Tigers ($27) as the top four most expensive options across all clubs merely to attend all home games.

BATTLE OF BRISBANE

The Dolphins are capped at 10,000 capacity for two home games at Kayo Stadium in 2025, and there is no general admission option for Suncorp Stadium, meaning they only offer reserved ticket memberships.

However, they are flourishing in a Brisbane market that desperately needed options for rugby league fans who might not support the Broncos.

The Dolphins had the second highest membership behind Brisbane in 2024 with more than 35,000 members, and are on track to surpass it again next season.

“For us, the exact figure is we’re 17 per cent up on where we were last year, and we’ve actually already equalled our full-season ticketed members we had last year, and 15 per cent of our members have upgraded their packages from when they had before, more games or a better seat,” said Dolphins CEO Terry Reader.

“We don’t want to over-complicate things, we have three game packages for Suncorp from $70 which includes the member pack, and some clubs don’t give that out.

“Or you can have all nine games at Suncorp, the two games at Kayo or you can have the two games at Kayo and pick your best three at Suncorp.

“Most people want to be a member because they want to be a part of it, to get some seats and to get a better rate.”

The limited ground capacity at Kayo Stadium means those memberships are immediately sold out.

The Dolphins most expensive full season membership is $685 a season, which is the third cheapest in the NRL behind the Knights ($599) and Sharks ($570).

A-League’s Brisbane Roar also play out of Suncorp Stadium.

Their best membership is $445 a year, while their least expensive option is $305 for 13 games in the 2024/25 season.

THE PERKS

Out of the data, the Tigers are the big surprise, with their most expensive membership up to $2500 per person for 2025, a price ramped up due to limited facilities across boutique stadiums Leichhardt Oval and Campbelltown Stadium.

It’s the third highest in the NRL, just beating Brisbane’s lavish $2499 option and behind only the Sydney Roosters’ $3350 package - a fitting price tag for the competition’s glamour club.

Already sold out, Tigers fans get all the usual perks as well as a video message from a player, an inner sanctum experience, sideline warm up and guard of honour access, as well as tickets to the end of season awards.

Access to Hawthorn’s exclusive Lethal club will cost you $2100 a season, but it’s also sold out and waitlisted.

It’s the highest price membership in the AFL, with Collingwood ($1999) and West Coast ($1735) rounding out the top three.

Most premium packages are limited and sold out, with the waitlist often years long for fans to get their hands on seats.

The most unique membership perks across the codes.

In most cases, AFL season ticket holders in Melbourne also get access to away games, which doubles the value - an added bonus NRL and A-League fans don’t get.

Like the Roosters, Sydney FC fans pay a premium for the Allianz Stadium facilities too.

The Sky Blues have a Tunnel Club package capped at 150 members, which includes food and inner sanctum experiences for a ritzy $2290, the most expensive advertised option across the competition.

However, their highest price ticketed membership with no food or drinks inclusions is $635 for 13 homes games, free transport and additional discounts.

Their most basic general admission membership option to attend all home games is $320 a season, the second highest across the league for $25 per game.

Perth members pay the most across A-League for general admission to 13 home games for $350 ($27 per game).

Melbourne City’s premium experience also includes a meal and private entry to home games for $1248 a season, while their general admission membership is at the lowest end of the A-League spectrum, on par with most NRL clubs at $18 a game.

Raiders members will enjoy a charcuterie board.

The Jets’ Club 1884 is the priciest membership in the A-League, with diehard fans paying $1250 a season for premium tickets at McDonald Jones Stadium.

That price tag gets them some of the best perks in the league, including inclusion in the men’s or women’s team photo, a signed Jets jersey, tickets to awards nights or season launch and a guard of honour experience once a season.

At the lower end of the scale they also have one of the cheapest options in the league for general admission season tickets.

To see every Jets home game will cost you $200 a year, the same as a Central Coast membership, while Western United have the lowest cost option for fans, who can pay $149 for standing tickets to 11 home games at Ironbark Fields, in Melbourne’s west.

PREMIER PROBLEMS

Stadium configurations have made memberships complicated for four-time NRL champions Penrith for 2025.

With home games in Vegas, Bathurst, Mudgee and Brisbane, the Panthers have just eight games at CommBank Stadium.

The four-time premiers have had to shift 37kms down the road due to the redevelopment of their home ground, which means transitioning seated members into their preferences in a new stadium.

But also opens up opportunity.

They’ve partnered with Sydney Thunder to grow both fan bases in the west, to take advantage of more seat at CommBank Stadium.

“We had a few sold out games last year so hopefully the more members and fans who get out to CommBank the better the experience will be for everyone,” said Penrith’s head of membership and fan engagement, Courtenay Neaverson.

Four premierships in a row helps too, but with the redeveloped BlueBet Stadium to increase the capacity by around 3000 to 25,000, the Panthers want more bums on seats now.

“We can see growth year on year over the last few years. We actually never had enough seats at BlueBet to sell all the memberships, so hopefully when we come back in 2027 we’ll have more seating for fans, but until then we have more at CommBank because it’s a much bigger stadium.

“We have a lot of local support but we’re finding new supporters all the time.”

Originally published as 2025 NRL Club Memberships: The bargains and bucket list experiences up for grabs