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World Club Challenge records and statistics

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Notable achievements in the World Club Series, a Rugby league competition between Australasian and European teams, include the 39-0 win by the South Sydney Rabbitohs against St. Helens in 2015, and for individual players the total of 17 goals scored in the World Club Challenge by Kevin Sinfield of Leeds Rhinos.

Match records

NOTE: The following statistics reflect matches that made up the World Club Series 2015 - 2017.

Biggest win

Year Winner Score Loser
2015 South Sydney Rabbitohs 39 – 0 St. Helens

Highest scoring game

Year Winner Score Loser
2016 Brisbane Broncos 42 – 12 Wigan Warriors

Lowest scoring game

Year Winner Score Loser
2015 Brisbane Broncos 14 – 12 Wigan Warriors

Individual

Top try scorers

  • List of players who have scored 2 or more tries.
Tries Name (Club(s))
3 Joe Burgess ( Wigan Warriors)
2 Joel Reddy ( South Sydney)
Dominique Peyroux ( St. Helens)
Aidan Guerra ( Sydney)
Corey Oates ( Brisbane)
Kodi Nikorima ( Brisbane)
Ryan Atkins ( Warrington Wolves)

Top goal scorers

Goals Name (Club(s))
12 Adam Reynolds ( South Sydney)
Corey Parker ( Brisbane)
10 Jackson Hastings ( Sydney)
6 Gareth Widdop ( St George Illawarra)

World Club Challenge records

NOTE: The below statistics reflect records from all World Club Challenge matches from 1976 to present. They don't include World Club Series exhibition games played in addition to the World Club Challenge match between 2015 and 2017 and also pool games in the 1997 World Club Championship

Match records

Biggest win

Year Winner Score Loser
2015 South Sydney Rabbitohs 39 – 0 St. Helens
2000 Melbourne Storm 44 – 6 St. Helens
2003 Sydney Roosters 38 – 0 St. Helens

Highest scoring game

Year Winner Score Loser
2005 Leeds Rhinos 39 – 32 Bulldogs RLFC

Lowest scoring game

Year Winner Score Loser
1987 Wigan 8 – 2 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Individual records

Top try scorers

Tries Name (club/s)
5 Brett Morris (Sydney Roosters / St George Illawarra)

Ryan Hall (Leeds)

4 Joe Burgess (Wigan)
3 Marcus Bai (Melbourne / Bradford)
Michael Hancock (Brisbane)
Michael Jennings (Sydney)
Jamie Jones-Buchanan (Leeds)
Danny McGuire (Leeds)
Darren Smith (Brisbane)
Brett Stewart (Manly-Warringah)
2 Jesse Bromwich (Melbourne)
George Carmont (Wigan)
Josh Charnley (Wigan)
Hazem El Masri (Canterbury-Bankstown)
Stuart Fielden (Bradford)
Ade Gardner (St Helens)
Scott Hill (Melbourne)
Andrew Johns (Newcastle)
Jamahl Lolesi (Canterbury-Bankstown, Wests Tigers)
Martin Offiah (Widnes)
Julian O'Neill (Brisbane)
Justin O'Neill (North Queensland)
Robbie Paul (Bradford)
Joel Reddy (South Sydney)
Robbie Ross (Melbourne)
Paul Sculthorpe (St Helens)
Lesley Vainikolo (Bradford)
Anthony Watmough (Manly-Warringah)
Michael Withers (Bradford)
Nick Zisti (Hunter)

Most tries in a game

Tries Name (club/s) Opponent Date
3 Michael Jennings (Sydney) Wigan 22 February 2014
3 Joe Burgess (Wigan) Cronulla 19 February 2017
3 Brett Morris (Sydney) Wigan 17 February 2019

Most points in a game

Points Name (club/s) Tries Goals Opponent Date
22 Craig Fitzgibbon (Sydney) 1 9 St. Helens 14 February 2003

Most goals

Goals Name (club/s)
17 Kevin Sinfield (Leeds)
12 Frano Botica (Wigan)
Cameron Smith (Melbourne)
11 Paul Deacon (Bradford / Wigan)
9 Craig Fitzgibbon (Sydney)

Drop goals

Goals Name (club/s)
2 Kevin Sinfield (Leeds)
1 Paul Deacon (Bradford)
Sean Long (St Helens)
Joe Lydon (Wigan)
Paul Sculthorpe (St Helens)
Jamie Soward (St George Illawarra)
Sam Tomkins (Wigan)
Declan Patton (Warrington)

Attendance

Top 5 Attendances

Year Home Away City, Country Stadium Attendance
1994 Brisbane Broncos Wigan Brisbane, Australia ANZ Stadium 54,220 [1]
2005 Leeds Rhinos Bulldogs RLFC Leeds, England Elland Road 37,028 [2]
1987 Wigan Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Wigan, England Central Park 36,895 [3]
2008 Leeds Rhinos Melbourne Storm Leeds, England Elland Road 33,204 [4]
2009 Leeds Rhinos Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles Leeds, England Elland Road 32,569 [5]

See also

References