Wigan Warriors’ incredible record under Matt Peet after League Leaders Shield win

Wigan Warriors head coach Matt Peet has an incredible record while in charge of his side.

This week, they secured the League Leaders’ Shield for the second season in-a-row with a 64-0 demolition job of a weakened Salford Red Devils side, who made 17 changes in preparation for an eliminator clash.

After 96 games in charge of the Cherry and Whites, he has a 77.1% win rate, which puts him comfortably ahead of Shaun Wane’s 67.5, and sixth in the club’s history for permanent head coaches.

It’s the highest percentage since Frank Endacott in 2000, making him statistically the best coach for 24 years.

That does, of course, include a 100% winning record in the World Club Challenge, and a 91% winning record in the Challenge Cup, having lost just one of eleven games in the competition.

Their Super League record has also improved year-on-year with him in charge, going from a win percentage of 72% in 2022, to 81% in 2023, and now, so far, to 84% in 2024.

Wigan Warriors trophies under Matt Peet

In under three years, he has won six trophies – in what is just his first head coaching role in senior rugby league.

This includes five in under 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 latest Challenge Cup victory also meant they were the holders of all four major trophies at the same time.

Back-to-back League Leaders’ Shields have only been won by St Helens in the past, when they did it four times in a row in the mid-noughties.

With two Challenge Cup victories, a Grand Final victory and the World Club Challenge also, the tally of six trophies in three years will be looked back on with much admiration in the future – and it seems he will only add to this, with a dynasty seeming to be forming at the Brick Community Stadium.

They haven’t yet confirmed signings for 2025, but it seems that they’ll still look incredibly strong next year.