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 Warriors | Tries: Renouf (2); Smith Goals: Farrell (2 conversions) |
| St Helens | Tries: Iro (2); Long (2); Cunningham; Hall; Hoppe; Martyn; Sullivan Goals: Long (9 conversions) |
Team sheets
| Wigan Warriors | St Helens | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kris Radlinski | Fullback | Paul Wellens | 17 |
| 2 | Brett Dallas | Wing | Sean Hoppe | 15 |
| 4 | Gary Connolly | Centre | Kevin Iro | 3 |
| 3 | Steve Renouf | Centre | Paul Newlove | 4 |
| 5 | Jason Robinson | Wing | Anthony Sullivan | 5 |
| 13 | Andy Farrell | Five-Eighth | Tommy Martyn | 20 |
| 7 | Willie Peters | Halfback | Sean Long | 7 |
| 8 | Terry O'Connor | Prop | Apollo Perelini | 8 |
| 9 | Terry Newton | Hooker | Keiron Cunningham | 9 |
| 10 | Neil Cowie | Prop | Julian O'Neill | 10 |
| 11 | Mick Cassidy | Second Row | Chris Joynt | 11 |
| 12 | Denis Betts | Second Row | Tim Jonkers | 22 |
| 19 | Chris Chester | Lock | Paul Sculthorpe | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 6 | Tony Smith | Steve Hall | 24 | |
| 14 | Lee Gilmour | Fereti Tuilagi | 14 | |
| 17 | Tony Mestrov | John Stankevitch | 26 | |
| 23 | Brady Malam | Sonny Nickle | 12 | |
| Frank Endacott | Coach | Ian Millward | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Stuart 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.