The top try-scorer in every Super League season from 1996 to the present day
From left to right: Joel Monaghan (Warrington Wolves), Liam Marshall (Wigan Warriors) and Lesley Vainikolo (Bradford Bulls) have all ended campaigns as Super League's top try-scorer
2024 saw Wigan Warriors star Liam Marshall scoop the individual accolade of ending the year as Super League’s top try-scorer, with the winger grabbing 27 tries.
Marshall has become the sixth different Warriors ace to earn top billing in the Super League try-scoring ranks, following on from team-mate Abbas Miski in 2023.
Lebanon international Miski, who also scored 27 for Wigan last year, shared top spot in 2023 with Tom Johnstone – then of Catalans Dragons.
To this day, no one has scored more Super League tries in a single season than Denny Solomona for Castleford Tigers in 2016, with the Auckland-born flier notching a whopping 40 that year!
Please note that tally does include the Super 8s fixtures, so he scored 40 tries in 30 games, which still isn’t bad going!
Other play-off games over the years aren’t counted – that’s Super League‘s rule by the way, not ours!
At the other end of the scale, the lowest tally for the top try scorer came in the 2020 season, heavily impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic which began in the March.
Each team should have played 29 games, and that was reduced to 20, but no club got through all of those in the end.
Ash Handley grabbed 14 tries for Leeds Rhinos in the 17 they got through, and that was enough to see him end as the division’s top scorer that year.
Other names on the list include Lesley Vainikolo – who scored 36 for Bradford Bulls back in 2004 – and Joel Monaghan, who crossed the whitewash 28 times in a Warrington Wolves shirt a decade later.
Without further ado, here is the full list of Super League’s top try scorer each year…
1996 – Paul Newlove – St Helens – 28
1997 – Nigel Vagana – Warrington Wolves – 17
1998 – Anthony Sullivan – St Helens – 20
1999 – Toa Kohe-Love – Warrington Wolves – 25
2000 – Sean Long & Tommy Martyn – St Helens – 22
2001 – Kris Radlinski – Wigan Warriors – 27
2002 – Dennis Moran – London Broncos – 22
2003 – Dennis Moran – London Broncos – 24
2004 – Lesley Vainikolo – Bradford Bulls – 36
2005 – Mark Calderwood – Leeds Rhinos – 27
2006 – Justin Murphy – Catalans Dragons – 25
2007 – Henry Fa’afili – Warrington Wolves – 21
2008 – Ade Gardner – St Helens – 26
2009 – Ryan Hall – Leeds Rhinos – 29
2010 – Pat Richards – Wigan Warriors – 29
2011 – Ryan Hall & Sam Tomkins – Leeds Rhinos & Wigan Warriors – 28
2012 – Josh Charnley – Wigan Warriors – 31
2013 – Josh Charnley – Wigan Warriors – 33
2014 – Joel Monaghan – Warrington Wolves – 28
2015 – Jermaine McGillvary – Huddersfield Giants – 27
2016 – Denny Solomona – Castleford Tigers – 40
2017 – Greg Eden – Castleford Tigers – 38
2018 – Ben Barba – St Helens – 28
2019 – Tommy Makinson – St Helens – 23
2020 – Ash Handley – Leeds Rhinos – 14
2021 – Ken Sio – Salford Red Devils – 19
2022 – Bevan French – Wigan Warriors – 31
2023 – Abbas Miski & Tom Johnstone – Wigan Warriors & Catalans Dragons – 27
2024 – Liam Marshall – 27
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