2018 Betfred Super League — Final Super 8s Standings

St Helens won the League Leaders' Shield for a record 6th time and went on to reach the Grand Final, though they lost their semi-final to Warrington Wolves. Wigan Warriors won all 7 of their Super 8s matches — a unique feat — but it wasn't enough to overtake St Helens' overall lead; Wigan finished 2nd but went on to win the Grand Final. Table shows the final top-8 Super 8s standings (30 rounds: 23 regular-season + 7 Super 8s), not the full 12-club regular season.

Sourcing caveat: This table required reconstruction (frozen regular-season table + 7 rounds of Super 8s match results) rather than a single directly quotable final standings source, because the raw Wikipedia table could not be cleanly extracted; it was cross-validated against a BBC mid-season point-gap report and, decisively, against a follow-up research pass that confirmed St Helens (not Wigan) finished 1st, resolving an initial conflicting claim. Wakefield's placement above Huddersfield (both on 27 points, split on points difference) uses the standard tiebreak convention but wasn't separately confirmed by a source stating that tiebreak explicitly for this case. The bottom-4 Super League clubs entering the parallel "Qualifiers" group were Leeds Rhinos, Hull Kingston Rovers, Salford Red Devils and Widnes Vikings; Leeds, Hull KR and Salford retained their Super League place, Widnes were relegated (ending a 7-year top-flight spell), and London Broncos won the last-ever "Million Pound Game" (beating Toronto Wolfpack 4-2) to take the final promoted spot for 2019 — not included in the "ladder" table above since it wasn't the same 8-club competition.

Ladder

PosClubPWDLPFPADiffPts
1St Helens302604895408+48752
2Wigan Warriors302307740417+32346
3Castleford Tigers302019767582+18541
4Warrington Wolves3018111767561+20637
5Wakefield Trinity3013116747696+5127
6Huddersfield Giants3013116539794-25527
7Catalans Dragons3012117596750-15425
8Hull FC3011019615787-17222

Qualified for the finals series — top 8 (entered the Super 8s stage, not a direct top-N knockout) that season.

Finals series

Semi-Final

DateResultVenueAttendance
4 Oct 2018St Helens 13–18 Warrington WolvesTotally Wicked Stadium, St Helens12,309
5 Oct 2018Wigan Warriors 14–0 Castleford TigersDW Stadium, Wigan13,461

Grand Final

DateResultVenueAttendance
13 Oct 2018Wigan Warriors 12–4 Warrington WolvesOld Trafford, Manchester64,892

Full Grand Final page (Harry Sunderland Trophy, match context, sources) →

Sources

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