Panthers Hold First Place With 12 Wins In Nrl Ladder — Nrl Ladder

Penrith sit top of the nrl ladder after 14 rounds of the 2026 season with 12 wins, one loss and one bye. In a 27-round competition, that leaves the Panthers on 26 points and still setting the pace while the ladder remains skewed by uneven bye counts.

Nathan Cleary Leads Penrith

Nathan Cleary was named the Panthers' best player and sits first on the Zero Tackle MVP leaderboard with 146 votes. That gives Penrith a clear individual marker to match its team results, with the playmaker front and centre in a season where the club has turned results into separation at the top.

Penrith's numbers are sharp across the board. The Panthers own a plus-273 points differential, average 33.6 points per game and are conceding less than 13 points per game. Those figures sit behind a record that has left them first in the prediction table as well as first on the ladder snapshot.

Panthers Ahead Of The Pack

The wider competition has not produced a clean table. The report said two coaches had already been sacked after seven weeks, and every team had at least one win after 14 rounds, but the ladder was still described as a distorted mess because some teams had not yet had a bye.

That makes Penrith's position more than a simple win-loss count. The Panthers were treated as the NRL's dominant force at the midpoint marker, and their 12 wins from 13 games played set the standard the rest of the league had to chase through the second half of the 27-round season.