We love the mighty Canberra Raiders
Canberra's 2025 weekend sports featured highs, lows, and notable moments covered by The Canberra Times.
Every weekend in Canberra there's extraordinary sporting moments of highs and lows, and 2025 was no different.
Many highlights were captured by The Canberra Times' popular Saturday local sport live blog, while others were major headlines in our dedicated coverage of first-grade competitions.
So here's our pick of the best, worst, and most-clicked moments in Canberra local sport this year.
Join the excitement at Canberra Stadium; enjoy games, but dress warm and navigate traffic.
Ready to find your seat at Canberra Stadium. Yeah, we're still there, so pack a puffer jacket, because that wind will come sweeping through before you're stuck in traffic trying to get home.
But forget that for a moment, and enjoy what you're about to see. Josh Papali'i chasing that fairytale finish with the Canberra Raiders. A new generation of ACT Brumbies.
And if you keep coming back? You might even see an A-League Men's team - as long as someone can find an investor to end a long wait to bring a team to Canberra and save the women's side from extinction.
Canberra's 2025 sports year featured thrilling finals, club collapses, and heartbreaking losses defining the season.
There were finals thrills, club collapses, and heartbreaking losses in an extraordinary year of sport in the capital.
Here's our list, in no particular order, of the stories that defined Canberra sport in 2025.