2003 World Club Challenge

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{{Infobox rugby league football match

|year = 2003

|title = World Club Challenge

|image = Bolton macron wanderers stadium.jpg

|imagesize = 250px

|caption = The Reebok Stadium hosted the match

|alt =

|home = St. Helens

|away = Sydney Roosters

|home_league = SL

|away_league = NRL

|home_abbr = ST H {{leagueicon|St Helens|16}}

|away_abbr = SYD {{leagueicon|Sydney Roosters|16}}

|home_half1 = 0

|home_half2 = 0

|home_total = 0

|away_half1 = 18

|away_half2 = 20

|away_total = 38

|date = 14 February 2003

|stadium = Reebok Stadium

|location = Bolton, England

|MoM_title = Man of the Match

|MoM = Craig Fitzgibbon {{leagueicon|Easts|16}}

|anthem_title =

|anthem =

|anthem2_title=

|anthem2 =

|referee = Russell Smith {{flagicon|ENG}}

|attendance = 19,807

|network = {{Flagicon|GBR}} Sky Sports

|network2 =

|commentators = Eddie Hemmings

|commentators2= Mike Stephenson

|commentators3=

|tournaments = World Club Challenge

|last = 2002

|next = 2004

}}

The 2003 World Club Challenge match was contested on Sunday, 16 February by National Rugby League season 2002 premiers, the Sydney Roosters and Super League VII premiers, St. Helens. 19,807 spectators turned out at Bolton's Reebok Stadium for the match, which was refereed by Russell Smith.

This was the first time the two clubs had played each other since the inaugural World Club Challenge game at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1976. On that occasion the Roosters, then known as Eastern Suburbs (as it was a Sydney only competition at the time), defeated St Helens 25-2. The attendance on that occasion was 26,856.{{fact|date=June 2020}}