St Helens 26–18 Wigan Warriors — Qualifying Semi-Final, 2011 Super League Finals Series
1 Oct 2011 · Stobart Stadium, Widnes · Attendance: 9,421
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Qualifying Semi-Final, 2011 Super League finals series: St Helens 26–18 Wigan Warriors, at Stobart Stadium, Widnes on 1 Oct 2011.
Sourcing caveat: Individual try minutes were not confirmed across sources and are omitted rather than guessed at. Both sides' lineups here match this backlog's other 2011 entries for these clubs exactly, including St Helens' recurring 3-name bench gap (also seen in their earlier Qualifying Play-off) — confirmed genuine rather than a one-off fetch miss, since it recurs identically across two independently-fetched St Helens matches this season.
Scorers
| St Helens | Tries: Foster; Gaskell; Roby; Wellens Goals: Foster (5/6 conversions) |
| Wigan Warriors | Tries: Charnley; O'Carroll; Tomkins Goals: Richards (3/4 conversions) |
Team sheets
| St Helens | Wigan Warriors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Wellens (c) | Fullback | Sam Tomkins | 1 |
| 28 | Thomas Makinson | Wing | Josh Charnley | 25 |
| 3 | Michael Shenton | Centre | Joel Tomkins | 12 |
| 5 | Francis Meli | Centre | George Carmont | 4 |
| 22 | Jamie Foster | Wing | Pat Richards | 5 |
| 25 | Lee Gaskell | Five-Eighth | Brett Finch | 17 |
| 20 | Jonny Lomax | Halfback | Thomas Leuluai | 7 |
| 10 | James Graham (c) | Prop | Jeff Lima | 15 |
| 9 | James Roby | Hooker | Mike McIlorum | 9 |
| 11 | Tony Puletua | Prop | Andy Coley | 10 |
| 12 | Jon Wilkin | Second Row | Harrison Hansen | 11 |
| 4 | Iosia Soliola | Second Row | Ryan Hoffman | 16 |
| 16 | Paul Clough | Lock | Sean O'Loughlin (c) | 13 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 19 | Andrew Dixon | Paul Prescott | 14 | |
| 14 | Scott Moore | Eamon O'Carroll | 20 | |
| 15 | Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook | Liam Farrell | 22 | |
| Chris Tuson | 23 | |||
| Royce Simmons | Coach | Michael Maguire | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Phil Bentham |
Match report
St Helens beat Wigan Warriors 26-18 at the Stobart Stadium in Widnes — St Helens' temporary home ground in 2011 before Langtree Park opened in 2012 — on 1 October 2011 in a Super League Qualifying Semi-Final. Saints overturned a half-time deficit to reach the Grand Final as the higher seed (3rd place) against 5th-placed Leeds, avenging their own Qualifying Play-off scare against Wigan two weeks earlier.