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Date | 22 February 2014 | ||||||||||||
Stadium | Sydney Football Stadium | ||||||||||||
Location | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||
Man of the Match | Jake Friend | ||||||||||||
Referee | Ben Cummins Gerard Sutton | ||||||||||||
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.[1] The Roosters won the match 36–14.
By winning the World Club Challenge, the Roosters were the only team to win on Australian soil, but are 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.