Wigan Warriors 18–12 Salford Red Devils — Qualifying Final, 2019 Super League Finals Series
20 Sep 2019 · DW Stadium, Wigan · Attendance: 9,247
Data last verified: 11 August 2026.
Qualifying Final, 2019 Super League finals series: Wigan Warriors 18–12 Salford Red Devils, at DW Stadium, Wigan on 20 Sep 2019.
Sourcing caveat: No further caveats identified. One jersey-number clash found and left unresolved: Rugby League Project consistently gives Liam Marshall's real squad number as 17 (independently confirmed via Wigan's 2019 squad-number announcement, Wigan Today), but also gives interchange player Bevan French's number as 17 across all three of Wigan's finals-series match pages this season — French had returned from the NRL mid-season and wasn't part of the preseason squad-number announcement, so his real number couldn't be independently confirmed. French's bench number is left unconfirmed here rather than repeating a clashing 17.
Scoring timeline
| 24′ | Wigan Warriors — try, Gildart |
| 37′ | Salford Red Devils — try, Griffin |
| 53′ | Wigan Warriors — try, Leuluai |
| 57′ | Wigan Warriors — try, Williams |
| 62′ | Salford Red Devils — try, Hastings |
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: Gildart 24'; Leuluai 53'; Williams 57' Goals: Hardaker (3 goals) |
| Salford Red Devils | Tries: Griffin 37'; Hastings 62' Goals: Inu (2 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 |
| 8 | Tony Clubb | Prop | Lee Mossop | 8 |
| 9 | Sam Powell | Hooker | Logan Tomkins | 19 |
| 36 | Liam Byrne | Prop | Gil Dudson | 10 |
| 15 | Willie Isa | Second Row | Josh Jones | 11 |
| 12 | Liam Farrell | Second Row | George Griffin | 12 |
| 38 | Morgan Smithies | Lock | Tyrone McCarthy | 17 |
| Substitutes | ||||
| 10 | Ben Flower | Joey Lussick | 14 | |
| 13 | Sean O'Loughlin | Adam Walker | 15 | |
| 11 | Joe Greenwood | Mark Flanagan | 13 | |
| UNCONFIRMED | Bevan French | Ryan Lannon | 29 | |
| Adrian Lam | Coach | Ian Watson | ||
Match officials
| Referee | Robert Hicks |
Match report
Wigan Warriors beat Salford Red Devils 18-12 at the DW Stadium, with Oliver Gildart, Thomas Leuluai and George Williams scoring tries either side of Salford replies from George Griffin and Jackson Hastings. Two further Salford tries (Lussick and Sio) were disallowed on video referee review. The result ended Salford's 8-match winning streak.