Leeds Rhinos 27–20 Catalans Dragons — Qualifying Semi-Final, 2009 Super League Finals Series
2 Oct 2009 · Headingley, Leeds · Attendance: 13,409
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Qualifying Semi-Final, 2009 Super League finals series: Leeds Rhinos 27–20 Catalans Dragons, at Headingley, Leeds on 2 Oct 2009.
Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Rugby League Project's page for this match initially returned a position-order 1-13 index for Leeds' starting XIII rather than real shirt numbers (most visibly, Matt Diskin shown as "9" instead of his real 14) — a targeted per-team re-fetch confirmed the genuine squad numbers used below, matching this backlog's already-established Leeds numbering from the Qualifying Play-off exactly. Leeds' bench for this match swaps in Luke Burgess (19) for Ali Lauiti'iti (12), a genuine week-to-week rotation. Catalans' lineup is again identical in every shirt number to their other two 2009 finals-series entries in this file, the third of three matches confirming their unchanged 17-man squad through the finals series.
Scorers
| Leeds Rhinos | Tries: Hall (2); McGuire (2); Donald Goals: Sinfield (3 conversions) Drop goals: Sinfield |
| Catalans Dragons | Tries: Duport (3); Mogg Goals: Bosc (2 conversions) |
Team sheets
| Leeds Rhinos | Catalans Dragons | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brent Webb | Fullback | Clint Greenshields | 1 |
| 2 | Scott Donald | Wing | Vincent Duport | 18 |
| 3 | Lee Smith | Centre | Sébastien Raguin | 11 |
| 4 | Keith Senior | Centre | Jean-Philippe Baile | 15 |
| 5 | Ryan Hall | Wing | Dimitri Pelo | 5 |
| 6 | Danny McGuire | Five-Eighth | Adam Mogg | 4 |
| 7 | Rob Burrow | Halfback | Thomas Bosc | 6 |
| 8 | Kylie Leuluai | Prop | Jason Ryles | 23 |
| 14 | Matt Diskin | Hooker | Casey McGuire | 9 |
| 10 | Jamie Peacock | Prop | Jérôme Guisset | 10 |
| 11 | Jamie Jones-Buchanan | Second Row | Olivier Elima | 16 |
| 18 | Carl Ablett | Second Row | Cyrille Gossard | 17 |
| 13 | Kevin Sinfield (c) | Lock | Greg Bird | 26 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 16 | Ryan Bailey | David Ferriol | 8 | |
| 17 | Ian Kirke | Dane Carlaw | 14 | |
| 19 | Luke Burgess | Julien Touxagas | 19 | |
| 21 | Simon Worrall | Rémi Casty | 24 | |
| Brian McClennan | Coach | Kevin Walters | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Richard Silverwood |
Match report
Leeds Rhinos beat Catalans Dragons 27-20 at Headingley on 2 October 2009 in a Super League Qualifying Semi-Final — the fixture Leeds picked for themselves under the newly-introduced "club call" rule, choosing Catalans over Wigan Warriors. Leeds blitzed the first half 22-4 before Catalans, boosted by a Vincent Duport hat-trick, staged a spirited but ultimately short second-half comeback. The win sent Leeds into their fourth straight Grand Final.