Sydney Roosters 20–8 Wigan Warriors — 2019 World Club Challenge
DW Stadium, Wigan · Attendance: 21,331 (single-sourced)
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
2019 World Club Challenge: Sydney Roosters 20–8 Wigan Warriors, at DW Stadium, Wigan.
Sourcing caveat: Exact minutes for two of Brett Morris's three tries were not confirmed beyond "inside the opening minutes" and "by half-time." Attendance is single-sourced. Player of the match is inferred from reporting emphasis rather than a confirmed official award.
Scoring timeline
| 33′ | Sydney Roosters — try, Morris |
Tries with a sourced minute, in order scored. Tries whose exact minute isn't recorded in available sources appear in the Scorers table below but not here.
Scorers
| Sydney Roosters | Tries: Morris; Morris; Morris 33'; Tupou Goals: Taukeiaho (2 conversions, incl. a 60th-minute penalty) |
| Wigan Warriors | Tries: Davies; Marshall |
Teams
| Sydney Roosters | Wigan Warriors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Tedesco | Fullback | Zak Hardaker | 20 |
| 2 | Daniel Tupou | Wing | Tom Davies | 2 |
| 3 | Joseph Manu | Centre | Oliver Gildart | 4 |
| 4 | Brett Morris | Centre | Dan Sarginson | 3 |
| 5 | Matt Ikuvalu | Wing | Liam Marshall | 17 |
| 6 | Luke Keary | Five-eighth | George Williams | 6 |
| 7 | Cooper Cronk | Halfback | Thomas Leuluai | 7 |
| 8 | Jared Waerea-Hargreaves | Front row | Tony Clubb | 8 |
| 9 | Jake Friend | Hooker (c) | Sam Powell | 9 |
| 10 | Siosiua Taukeiaho | Front row | Ben Flower | 10 |
| 11 | Boyd Cordner | Second row (c) | Joe Greenwood | 11 |
| 12 | Mitchell Aubusson | Second row | Liam Farrell | 12 |
| 13 | Victor Radley | Lock | Sean O'Loughlin | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 14 | Isaac Liu | Romain Navarrete | 14 | |
| 15 | Zane Tetevano | Willie Isa | 15 | |
| 16 | Lindsay Collins | Gabriel Hamlin | 16 | |
| 17 | Nat Butcher | Joe Bullock | 22 | |
| Trent Robinson | Coach | Adrian Lam | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Robert Hicks |
| Player of the match | Brett Morris (Sydney Roosters) — best-available attribution from match reporting, not confirmed as an official named award |
Match report
Sydney extended their unbeaten World Club Challenge record, part of the NRL's dominant run over Super League champions in this era. Winger Brett Morris ran riot early, scoring twice inside the opening minutes and completing his hat-trick by half-time to put the Roosters 14-4 up at the break. Wigan's Tom Davies had briefly given the hosts hope with a first-half try, and Liam Marshall's second-half score kept the margin respectable, but Daniel Tupou's late try and Sio Siua Taukeiaho's boot sealed it. Wigan's slow start proved decisive despite an improved second-half showing.This match belonged to the modern, annual World Club Challenge era, pitting that season's NRL Premiers directly against the same season's Super League Grand Final winners in a single fixture. 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 Sydney Roosters' 3rd World Club Challenge title and the 27th staging of the fixture since its unofficial 1976 debut.