2008 World Club Challenge

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The year 2008's Carnegie World Club Challenge was contested between Super League XII champions, the Leeds Rhinos and National Rugby League season 2007's premiers, the Melbourne Storm. The match was played in wintry coditions on Friday night, 29 February, four rounds into the 2008 Super League competition and one week before the start of NRL season 2008.

33,204 spectators turned out at Elland Road, in Leeds for a hard-fought, low-scoring match in which each side scored a try apeiece, with Leeds ultimately coming out winners, due largely to the kicking of Kevin Sinfield. The victory was the fifth consecutive win by the European champions over their Australasian counterparts.

Leeds: Webb, Smith, Toopi, Senior, Donald, McGuire, Burrow, Leuluai, Diskin, Peacock, Jones-Buchanan, Ellis, Sinfield.
Substitutes: Lauitiiti, Ablett, Scruton, Bailey.
Coach: Brian McClennan
11 (8)
Tries: Donald
Goals: Sinfield 3
Drops: Sinfield

Melbourne: Slater, S. Turner, Chambers, Folau, Quinn, Geyer, Cronk, Lima, J. Smith, White, Kaufusi, Hoffman, Johnson.
Substitutes: Aitken, Blair, Manu, Tagataese.
Coach: Craig Bellamy
4 (4)
Tries: Hoffman

Ref: A. Klein (Australia)