Brisbane Broncos 22–8 Wigan Warriors — 1992 World Club Challenge
Central Park, Wigan · Attendance: 17,764
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
1992 World Club Challenge: Brisbane Broncos 22–8 Wigan Warriors, at Central Park, Wigan.
Sourcing caveat: Exact goal-kicking tallies (goals made/attempted) for both Matterson and Botica were not confirmed in sources found; no try-scoring minutes identified.
Scorers
| Brisbane Broncos | Tries: O'Neill; Walters; Hancock (2) Goals: Matterson (goals — exact tally not confirmed) |
| Wigan Warriors | Tries: Edwards Goals: Botica (goals — exact tally not confirmed) |
Teams
| Brisbane Broncos | Wigan Warriors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Julian O'Neill | Fullback | Andre Stoop | 1 |
| 2 | Willie Carne | Wing | Jason Robinson | 2 |
| 3 | Steve Renouf | Centre | Dean Bell (c) | 3 |
| 4 | Chris Johns | Centre | Andrew Farrar | 4 |
| 5 | Michael Hancock | Wing | Martin Offiah | 5 |
| 6 | Kevin Walters | Five-eighth | Frano Botica | 6 |
| 7 | Allan Langer (c) | Halfback | Shaun Edwards | 7 |
| 8 | Glenn Lazarus | Front row | Kelvin Skerrett | 8 |
| 9 | Kerrod Walters | Hooker | Martin Dermott | 9 |
| 10 | Andrew Gee | Front row | Andy Platt | 10 |
| 11 | Trevor Gillmeister | Second row | Denis Betts | 11 |
| 12 | Mark Hohn | Second row | Billy McGinty | 12 |
| 13 | Terry Matterson | Lock | Phil Clarke | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 14 | John Plath | Ian Lucas | 15 | |
| 15 | Tony Currie | Sam Panapa | 16 | |
| 16 | Brett Plowman | Martin Crompton | 17 | |
| 17 | Peter Ryan | |||
| Wayne Bennett | Coach | John Monie | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Dennis Hale (New Zealand) |
| Player of the match | Terry Matterson (Brisbane) |
Match report
A niggly, brawl-marked contest at Central Park, with Brisbane's Andrew Gee identified in contemporary reports as the instigator of two separate flare-ups. Wigan led early through a Botica penalty, but a Wigan knock-on in their own in-goal gifted Brisbane an attacking scrum, from which Julian O'Neill scored; Kerrod Walters added a second to send Brisbane in 10-2 up at the break. After the interval Steve Renouf set up Michael Hancock for a try before Wigan hit back through an inventive Martin Dermott chip that hooker-turned-finisher Shaun Edwards collected to score. Renouf and Hancock combined again for Hancock's second try, sealing a 22-8 win — the first time an Australian premiership club had beaten the English champions on British soil, and the start of Brisbane's dominance of the fixture through the 1990s.This match came from the fixture's early, sporadically-staged years, well before it settled into a genuinely annual format. The fixture as a whole began as a single unofficial match in 1976 and was repeated only sporadically through the 1980s and early 1990s: it wasn't played at all in 1988, 1990, 1993, or 1995-96, the last of those gaps caused by the Super League War splitting Australian rugby league into two rival competitions. The 1997 attempt to relaunch it as a 22-club, two-conference "World Club Championship" — five Australasian clubs touring Europe and five European clubs touring Australasia simultaneously — reportedly lost more than $5 million and was shelved for three years. It returned in 2000 as the simple one-off match still used today, missing only during the brief 2015-2017 multi-match "World Club Series" expansion (when the marquee fixture still determined the World Club Challenge title, alongside several other NRL-Super League pairings played the same week) and the 2021-2022 Covid-19 cancellations and the 2025 withdrawal by Penrith Panthers. The result here was Brisbane Broncos' 1st World Club Challenge title and the 5th staging of the fixture since its unofficial 1976 debut.