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Moments That Made 2025: Sealing The Top Four

In this series, we’ll be celebrating the best of our 90-Year Anniversary – from our Club events to our record-breaking crowds and best performances – these are the moments that made 2025. 

Building off a breakthrough 2024 season, the Bulldogs continued their charge to consecutive finals appearances, and sealed a top-four spot for the first time in over a decade.

NRL Match Highlights: Bulldogs vs Dragons - Round 20, 2025

The post-Origin run began with a close victory against the North Queensland Cowboys in Townsville, with a clutch try-saver from Viliame Kikau helping the side to an important 12-8 victory. 

That was followed by an emphatic win over local rivals St George Illawarra, with a Lachlan Galvin special sending rookie winger Jethro Rinakama over for an unforgettable buzzer beater in the dying seconds.

The Bulldogs made it three wins in a row to seal the Club's 1000th first-grade victory as they celebrated the 30-year anniversary of the 1995 Premiership with a 42-4 demolition of Manly. 

NRL Match Highlights: Bulldogs vs Warriors - Round 23, 2025

Cameron Ciraldo's men bounced back from defeat to put on another clinical showing in a wet and wild Indigenous Round against the Warriors with a 32-14 triumph at Accor Stadium. 

Their aspirations were officially sealed in Round 26 as a 28-4 victory over the Panthers - via a classy Jacob Preston hat-trick - propelled the Bulldogs into the top-four for the first time since 2012. 

NRL Match Highlights: Bulldogs v Panthers - Round 26, 2025

Acknowledgement of Country

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs respect and honour the Darug and Eora nations, who are the Traditional Custodians of the land and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge the stories, traditions and living cultures of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the lands we meet, gather and play on.