{"id":767942,"date":"2026-09-12T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767942\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:22:10","slug":"super-league-wigan-50-12-catalans-dragons-warriors-win-sixth-league-leaders-shield-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/767942\/","title":{"rendered":"Super League: Wigan 50-12 Catalans Dragons – Warriors win sixth League Leaders’ Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Betfred Super League<\/p>\n

Wigan (24) 50<\/p>\n

Tries: Smith, Marshall 2, O’Neill, Farrell, Daniel, Field, Eckersley, Keighran Goals: Keighran 7<\/p>\n

Catalans (6) 12<\/p>\n

Tries: Tison, Lis Goals: Aispuro-Bichet, Garcia<\/p>\n

Wigan Warriors won a sixth League Leaders’ Shield as they ran in nine tries to beat Catalans Dragons and carry on their remarkable run of form heading into the Super League play-offs.<\/p>\n

Matt Peet’s side, who were trophyless in 2025 off the back of their quadruple-winning 2024 campaign, have now won two pieces of silverware, having lifted the Challenge Cup in May, and are now two games away from a treble.<\/p>\n

Harry Smith and Ugo Tison exchanged tries early on, but Liam Marshall, Brad O’Neill and Liam Farrell put Wigan in control at the break.<\/p>\n

Austin Daniel and Jai Field continued Wigan’s scoring streak, while Zach Eckersley, Adam Keighran and Marshall’s second wrapped up a thumping 16th win in a row, with Alexis Lis scoring a fine consolation try for Les Dracs in the closing stages.<\/p>\n

Despite Friday’s victory ensuring the shield was theirs, the really hard work was done in last week’s crucial win over title rivals Leeds Rhinos<\/a> at Headingley, where they leapfrogged their rivals to go top.<\/p>\n

Had Wigan have lost then, Leeds could have pulled off a dramatic final-day surge back to the top, winning the shield at their expense on points difference, but the Rhinos fell short and were beaten by Hull FC on Friday.<\/p>\n

Wigan now have a bye week by virtue of a top two place and will be at home for their Super League play-off semi-final on Saturday, 26 September, live on the BBC.<\/p>\n

For Catalans, it means a difficult campaign ends with a ninth-placed finish. Les Dracs have now not made the end-of-season play-offs since their run to the Super League Grand Final in 2023 – where they were also beaten by Wigan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Betfred Super League Wigan (24) 50 Tries: Smith, Marshall 2, O’Neill, Farrell, Daniel, Field, Eckersley, Keighran Goals: Keighran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-767942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}