Wigan Warriors Wigan Warriors’ remarkable record under Matt Peet follows Ollie Mitchell’s League Leaders Shield triumph. On September 21, 2024, Matt Peet of Wigan Warriors lifted the Challenge Cup trophy.
Matt Peet, the Wigan Warriors’ head coach, has an excellent record in charge of his team.
This week, they won the League Leaders’ Shield for the second year in a straight with a 64-0 thrashing of a weaker Salford Red Devils team who made 17 changes in preparation for an elimination match.
After 96 games in command of the Cherry and Whites, he has a 77.1% victory rate, which is comfortably ahead of Shaun Wane’s 67.5 and places him sixth in the club’s history for permanent head coaches.
It’s the highest percentage since Frank Endacott in 2000, making him the best coach in the past 24 years.
That includes, of course, a perfect record in the World Club Challenge and a 91% winning percentage in the Challenge Cup, with only one loss in eleven games.
Their Super League record has likewise improved year after year under his leadership, rising from 72% in 2022 to 81% in 2023 and, so far, 84% in 2024.
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In less than three years, he has won six titles in his first head coaching position in senior rugby league.
This includes five in less than a year, and they have won everything there is to win: the League Leaders’ Shield, the Grand Final, the Challenge Cup and the World Club Challenge.
The current Challenge Cup triumph also meant that they held all four major trophies at the same time.
Back-to-back St Helens has only ever won the League Leaders’ Shield four times in a row, in the mid-noughties.
With two Challenge Cup titles, a Grand Final victory, and the World Club Challenge, his six trophies in three years will be remembered fondly in the future – and it appears he will only add to this, with a dynasty building at the Brick Community Stadium.
They have yet to finalize signings for 2025, but it appears that they will still be extremely powerful next year.
