Wigan Warriors 4–28 Salford Red Devils — Preliminary Final, 2019 Super League Finals Series
4 Oct 2019 · DW Stadium, Wigan · Attendance: 9,858
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Preliminary Final, 2019 Super League finals series: Wigan Warriors 4–28 Salford Red Devils, at DW Stadium, Wigan on 4 Oct 2019.
Sourcing caveat: No further caveats identified. The same Marshall/French squad-number clash noted in the Qualifying Final entry recurs here — French's bench number is left unconfirmed rather than repeating Marshall's confirmed 17.
Scoring timeline
| 14′ | Salford Red Devils — try, Dudson |
| 45′ | Salford Red Devils — try, Lussick |
| 62′ | Salford Red Devils — try, Mossop |
Tries with a sourced minute, in order scored, with the conversion kicked/missed alongside each one where source data lets us match a kicker to that specific try. Tries whose exact minute isn't recorded in available sources appear in the Scorers table below but not here; goal tallies we can't attribute to one specific try are shown as descriptive text in Scorers rather than guessed into this timeline.
Scorers
| Wigan Warriors | Tries: French 72' (unconverted) |
| Salford Red Devils | Tries: Dudson 14'; Lussick 45'; Mossop 62' Goals: Inu (4 conversions, 2 penalties — 16 points from goals) |
Team sheets
| Wigan Warriors | Salford Red Devils | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | Zak Hardaker | Fullback | Niall Evalds | 1 |
| 17 | Liam Marshall | Wing | Ken Sio | 23 |
| 23 | Chris Hankinson | Centre | Kris Welham | 3 |
| 4 | Oliver Gildart | Centre | Jake Bibby | 5 |
| 5 | Joe Burgess | Wing | Krisnan Inu | 26 |
| 6 | George Williams | Five-Eighth | Tui Lolohea | 30 |
| 7 | Thomas Leuluai | Halfback | Jackson Hastings | 31 |
| 10 | Ben Flower | Prop | Lee Mossop | 8 |
| 9 | Sam Powell | Hooker | Logan Tomkins | 19 |
| 24 | Oliver Partington | Prop | Gil Dudson | 10 |
| 15 | Willie Isa | Second Row | Josh Jones | 11 |
| 12 | Liam Farrell | Second Row | George Griffin | 12 |
| 13 | Sean O'Loughlin | Lock | Tyrone McCarthy | 17 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 8 | Tony Clubb | Joey Lussick | 14 | |
| 36 | Liam Byrne | Adam Walker | 15 | |
| UNCONFIRMED | Bevan French | Mark Flanagan | 13 | |
| 38 | Morgan Smithies | Greg Burke | 16 | |
| Adrian Lam | Coach | Ian Watson | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Ben Thaler |
Match report
Salford Red Devils beat Wigan Warriors 28-4 at the DW Stadium to reach their first-ever Grand Final, with tries from Gil Dudson, Joey Lussick and Lee Mossop and a big kicking display from Robbie Mulhern's Inu (16 points from the boot). Wigan's night was compounded when Thomas Leuluai was forced off with a head injury; Bevan French's late, unconverted try was Wigan's only response.