Leeds Rhinos 22–14 Castleford Tigers — Elimination Final, 2000 Super League Finals Series

Elimination Final, 2000 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 22–14 Castleford Tigers, at Headingley, Leeds on 23 Sep 2000.

Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Lineups sourced this round from Rugby League Project's per-match page (rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/7138). Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers and complete 4-player benches on the first pass — no position-order or dropped-row issues encountered on this match page. Iestyn Harris is printed at Five-Eighth wearing 1 (his regular fullback number) rather than at Fullback; this is recorded as printed, consistent with this file's established practice of transcribing genuine squad-sheet positional placements rather than inferring from shirt number. Coaches confirmed via web search: Dean Lance (Leeds Rhinos — confirmed via Rugby League Project's own coaching-record page, which lists his tenure beginning in 2000, corroborated by a user comment on the same page and by his biography noting he was sacked after Leeds' 2001 season, meaning his tenure spans both years) and Stuart Raper (Castleford Tigers — confirmed via a Castleford coaching-history retrospective giving his tenure as April 1997 to late 2001, which fully covers this September 2000 match; note this is the same name later found coaching Wigan Warriors in 13be's 2001 round and this round's own Wigan matches — a different Stuart Raper coaching stint at a different club four years earlier, not a data error).