2014 World Club Challenge
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| Date | 22 February 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Stadium | Allianz Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Location | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||
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| Referees | Ben Cummins  Gerard Sutton
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| Attendance | 31,515 | ||||||||||||
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The 2014 World Club Challenge was the 15th consecutive annual (and 22nd overall) World Club Challenge and was contested by Super League XVIII champions, Wigan Warriors and 2013 NRL Premiers, the Sydney Roosters. The 2014 World Club Challenge marked a return to Australia, 20 years after the last Australian based game. It was played on 22 February 2014 at Allianz Stadium in Sydney. The Roosters won the match 36-14.
By winning the World Club Challenge, the Roosters not only remain the only Australian team to win the challenge on home soil, but the only team to have won twice. In 1976, Eastern Suburbs, the 1975 NSWRFL Premiers, defeated the 1975–76 English champions St Helens 25-2 in front of 26,865 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
This game marked the first time that these two clubs have played each other. It was the third final for Sydney and the sixth final for Wigan and was the first time in 20 years that it has been staged in Australia. The last World Club Challenge staged in Australia was in 1994 and coincidentally, also featured Wigan. In 1994, Wigan defeated the Brisbane Broncos 20-14 in front of what is still the WCC record attendance of 54,220 at Brisbane's ANZ Stadium.
After the 2013 Rugby League World Cup had been staged in England, it was agreed to transfer this game to Australia. The Sydney Roosters had as many as 16 players who had already travelled across to England for the Rugby League World Cup.
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