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Date | 1 June 1994 | ||||||||||||
Stadium | Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre | ||||||||||||
Location | Brisbane, Australia | ||||||||||||
Shaun Edwards | |||||||||||||
Referee | Greg McCallum | ||||||||||||
Attendance | 54,220 | ||||||||||||
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The 1994 MMI World Club Challenge[1] was a replay of the 1992 World Club Challenge, with 1993–94 Rugby Football League season champions Wigan facing the 1993 NSWRL season premiers, the Brisbane Broncos, this time in Australia. Wigan were clearly the dominant club in the English game, having won the previous four consecutive Rugby Football League Championships and Challenge Cup tournaments. The Broncos, having won consecutive premierships in 1992 and 1993, were the dominant team in the Australian game at the time. In the World Club Challenge–this time played unusually late in the year–Wigan were looking to get revenge for their loss against Brisbane in the sides' previous encounter, and obtained a strong first-half lead. The English club then survived a second-half comeback from Brisbane and won the match, cementing their position as the world's dominant rugby league club of the period.
Television coverage was provided by Australia's Nine Network with the game shown live in Great Britain by Sky Sports. Commentary was provided by the Australian team of Ray Warren, Peter Sterling, Wigan's former coach John Monie with Gary Belcher the sideline reporter.”Wigan we’re good.”