Wigan Warriors 16–54 St Helens — Qualifying Semi-Final, 2000 Super League Finals Series

29 Sep 2000 · JJB Stadium, Wigan · Attendance: 19,186

Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

Qualifying Semi-Final, 2000 Super League finals series: Wigan Warriors 16–54 St Helens, at JJB Stadium, Wigan on 29 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/7139). Both lineups fetched cleanly with real, varied squad numbers and complete 4-player benches on the first pass. St Helens' full thirteen matches the Qualifying Final's thirteen number-for-number, and its bench also recurs with only Sonny Nickle (12) added in place of the previous match's UNCONFIRMED Dwayne West slot, both good cross-match anchors. **A notable lineup change on Wigan's side is recorded as printed rather than treated as an error:** Andy Farrell (13) starts at Five-Eighth and Chris Chester (19) at Lock, with Tony Smith (6) — Wigan's regular Five-Eighth in this round's other two Wigan matches — on the bench instead. This was confirmed via the source page directly and is treated as a genuine one-match team selection change (not a positional-anomaly transcription issue in the sense of 13bc/13bd/13be's single-player swaps) since Wigan's very next finals appearance a week later, this round's Preliminary Final, shows the fully normal arrangement (Smith at Five-Eighth, Farrell at Lock, Chester on the bench) — cross-matched cleanly against that later match.

Scorers

Wigan WarriorsTries: Renouf (2); Smith
Goals: Farrell (2 conversions)
St HelensTries: Iro (2); Long (2); Cunningham; Hall; Hoppe; Martyn; Sullivan
Goals: Long (9 conversions)

Team sheets

Wigan WarriorsSt Helens
1Kris RadlinskiFullbackPaul Wellens17
2Brett DallasWingSean Hoppe15
4Gary ConnollyCentreKevin Iro3
3Steve RenoufCentrePaul Newlove4
5Jason RobinsonWingAnthony Sullivan5
13Andy FarrellFive-EighthTommy Martyn20
7Willie PetersHalfbackSean Long7
8Terry O'ConnorPropApollo Perelini8
9Terry NewtonHookerKeiron Cunningham9
10Neil CowiePropJulian O'Neill10
11Mick CassidySecond RowChris Joynt11
12Denis BettsSecond RowTim Jonkers22
19Chris ChesterLockPaul Sculthorpe13
Substitutes
6Tony SmithSteve Hall24
14Lee GilmourFereti Tuilagi14
17Tony MestrovJohn Stankevitch26
23Brady MalamSonny Nickle12
Frank EndacottCoachIan Millward

Match officials

RefereeStuart Cummings

Match report

St Helens routed top-seeded Wigan Warriors 54-16 at the JJB Stadium on 29 September 2000 in a Super League Qualifying Semi-Final — a record-scale beating of the regular-season table-toppers on their own ground. The result sent St Helens directly through to the Grand Final and dropped Wigan into the Preliminary Final.

Sources

← 2000 Super League Season — ladder & full finals series