This page summarises the 2025 Major League Rugby Season, the 8th in MLR history. It kicked off on February 15th, 2025 and the Championship Final was held on the last weekend of June, 2025. Here you can view the regular season standings for each conference, as well as the Championship Series structure and results, including links to all 2025 Playoff Games. This page also summarises the All-MLR teams of 2025, and the recipients of the League’s End of Season Awards.

Shortly after the end of the 2024 MLR season, the league and Dallas Jackals announced that the Jackals was in the process of being sold. This sale would not be complete in time for the 2025 season, and so Dallas was withdrawing from MLR. As will many cases of teams withdrawing in MLR’s short history, players and staff were not aware of just how dire the situation was at the top. Following this announcement, MLR held a dispersal draft to help Jackals players onto rosters for the 2025 season. This left MLR with an 11-team competition in 2025.

Regular Season

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Standings will be updated on a weekly basis following each round. Points are awarded based on teh following:
PF = Points For
PA = Points Against
+/- = Points Difference
Points
4 points for winning a match
2 points for drawing a match
0 points for losing a match
1 losing bonus point for losing by 7 points or fewer
1 try bonus point for scoring 4 tries or more

Despite contracting to 11 teams for 2025, the season format remained largely similar when it was announced on November 19th, 2024. Each team would play 8 home and 8 away games for a total of 16 games in the regular season across 18 weeks. The West, having only 5 teams since the withdrawal of the Jackals, would play an even 8/8 split of cross-conference & in-conference games, while the Eastern Conference teams would play 8-10 in-conference games, and 6-8 cross-conference.

Championship Series

The format of the 2025 Championship series followed the same structure as the 2024 season, with the top 4 teams from each conference qualifying to the Conference Semifinals, where the #1 seed would face #4, and #2 against #3. The winners would advance to the Conference Finals, and the Conference Champions would then fight for the 2025 Shield. With an 11 team league split into conferences, this means that 2 teams in the Eastern Conference will not qualify for the post-season, while just the 1 team will miss out in the West.

All-MLR Teams

Number	All-MLR First XV	All-MLR Second XV	Honorable Mention XV
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2025 Player Leaderboards & Accolades

Scoring Leaderboards – Top Points Scorers & Try Scorers

Pos.	Player	Team	Points	Separator	Pos.	Player	Team	Tries
1	Christian Leali’ifano		36		1	Joe Mano		5
2	D’Angelo Leuila		29		2	Ryan James		4
3	Martin Elias		28		–	Maclean Jones		4
4	Davy Coetzer		25		4	Tomas Aoake		3
–	Joe Mano		25		–	Nic Benn		3
6	Chris Hilsenbeck		24		–	Perry Humphreys		3
–	Jayson Potroz		24		–	Axel Muller		3
–	Jason Robertson		24		–	Cameron Orr		3
9	Ethan Grayson		23		–	Jordan Trainor		3
–	Santiago Videla		23		–	Rory van Vugt		3

Other Leaderboards – Tackling & Meters Gained

Pos.	Player	Team	Tackles	Separator	Pos.	Player	Team	Meters gained
1	Brad Wilkin		69		1	Damien Hoyland		360m
2	Jason Damm		65		2	Jordan Trainor		352m
3	Joe Johnston		64		3	Cooper Coats		280m
4	Cory Daniel		61		4	Divan Rossouw		277m
–	Lucas Rumball		61		5	Andrew Coe		274m
–	Christian Poidevin		60		6	Davy Coetzer		265m
7	Ben Bonasso		59		–	Santiago Videla		265m
8	James Scott		57		8	Line Latu		251m
9	Manu Ardao		56		9	Manu Ardao		233m
–	Dylan Nel		56		10	Rory van Vugt		231m

End of Season Awards

Award	Recipient	Team
MLR Player of the Year
MLR Forward of the Year
MLR Back of the Year
MLR Rookie of the Year
MLR Coach of the Year
S. Marcus Calloway Award
Top Points Scorer
Top Try Scorer
Top Tackler
Top Meter Eater