Warrington get this game up and running at Old Trafford.

Can the Wolves, the club that has lost each of the four previous Super League Grand Finals it has played in, finally put their cursed history behind them.

Or will it be Wakefield, the side relegated from Super League in 2023, that will complete what has been a simply stunning revival?

Either way, a new name will be etched in the trophy tonight.

I'm going to get this addressed very early...

Wakefield's Caius Faatili already has a pretty unique look with his shock of shaggy hair. He has now added a bit of colour to it this evening and well... it's something.

Sharon Shortle
BBC Sport commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

There's nothing like a Grand Final when the teams walk out.

Wembley is different, as big as an occasion that is for the Challenge Cup final, but Old Trafford has got it's own special feeling.

Warrington and Wakefield teams have walked onto the pitch at Old Trafford and been met by a wall of noise!

The atmosphere is electric.

Kick-off is just minutes away.

Robbie Hunter-Paul
Former New Zealand international on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

There's nothing like this.

I've not been this nervous or this excited about a Grand Final since I've played in one in 2005.

We're going to get a new name on the trophy, which is exciting in its own right, but we just can't call it.

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Before we focus on the action, and two gladiatorial teams that will go hammer and tongs to claim the Super League crown, let’s take a moment to look at the two bosses that have guided their clubs to Old Trafford.

Head coach Sam Burgess brought star power to Warrington Wolves when he took the job in 2023.

He was still only 34 and not long retired from a distinguished playing career, in which he earned honours as a dual code rugby international and most memorably won the NRL title with South Sydney in 2014.

That triumph with the Rabbitohs is the stuff of legend, having played on with a broken cheekbone in a performance that earned him the Clive Churchill Medal as man of the match.

The man he took over from at Warrington on a permanent basis was Daryl Powell, and in his few years as a head coach Burgess has already taken Wolves to the Challenge Cup final twice – both, however, ended in defeat.

Powell, 61, who boasts a vast coaching CV that includes taking Castleford to the Super League Grand Final in 2017, dropped into the Championship with Wakefield with his next coaching gig after Warrington.

Three years on and he is leading The Trin against his former employers in Super League showpiece event.

Adam Lanigan
BBC Sport reporter at Old Trafford

For those of you who know Old Trafford, Wakefield fans are occupying the Stretford End, while Warrington have filled the East Stand.

They are making for a cracking atmosphere.

And they have been united in giving an enormous ovation to Sir Kevin Sinfield as he emerges from the tunnel with the Super League trophy.

We'd all love to have a friend like Sir Kev in our corner for how he has helped his late mate Rob Burrow.

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The crowd roars as Sir Kevin Sinfield emerges with the Super League Trophy.

It is a special moment for him as he completes yet another gruelling running challenge to raise money for motor neurone disease charities - getting through seven ultra marathons in seven days and stopping at all 12 Super League clubs in England along the way - and he arrives at Old Trafford to watch his son Jack in action for Wakefield.

Can Sinfield junior emulate his father, a seven-time Super League Grand Final winner with Leeds, and help the Trin claim the trophy tonight?

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Matt Ellis was best known a few years back as a bloke who knew a lot about how to get a kitchen built.

Turns out, he also knows a few things how to build rugby league success.

Wakefield Trinity had just been relegated from Super League in September 2023 when managing director of DIY Kitchens, Ellis, bought the club.

He took over with aspirations of not only getting Wakefield back up, but to be challenging the top six in Super League on their arrival.

Within a year, Trinity had returned to the top flight.

Tom Johnstone was also lured back to the club in 2025, with a convincing pitch made in unique surrounds.

"I went to Matt's kitchen factory with my agent and we had a chat about everything they want to achieve and everything they promised to do," Johnstone, who scored two of Wakefield's five tries against Wigan, told BBC Two.

"We left and said: 'If they do any of that, it's going to be something special.' I couldn't say no."

At Old Trafford today, it's fair to say things have gotten pretty special.

Wakefield's journey to the Super League Grand Final is not one that can be contained to just this season.

There was them finishing bottom in 2023 when they were relegated, then came promotion from the Championship, which was followed by last season's impressive effort to reach the play-offs with a sixth-paced finish.

This season they improved again to land fourth place, and from there they barged past Leigh Leopards in the first week of the play-offs before pulling off one of Super League's great upsets by trouncing Wigan Warriors 33-6 in the semi-final a week ago.

Warrington squeezed past Leeds Rhinos in a heart-thumping 14-12 semi-final victory last week.

Sam Burgess' Wolves had finished the regular season equal on points with the second-placed Rhinos but, because of an inferior points difference, had to go the long way round to get to Old Trafford.

It meant coming up against defending champions Hull KR in the play-off eliminator. Ruthlessly, Warrington ended the Robins' reign.

Then, after upstaging Leeds at home with a performance that was a dizzying blend of ferocity and poise, they booked their return ticket to the Super League Grand Final after seven years away.

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We are about 15 minutes from kick-off now and live commentary streams from BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Leeds are all now live and available at the top of this page.

Of course, you can listen along while following text updates from the match right here.

While we don't have live video to bring you, the match highlights will be available on BBC iPlayer and the Red Button later tonight before being broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday afternoon.

Both Warrington head coach Sam Burgess and Wakefield boss Daryl Powell have stuck with the sides that got them to the Grand Final.

The Wolves team that got past Leeds last week, and Hull KR before that, goes again. It means Evan Irwin can become the youngest ever points scorer in a Super League decider.

The Wakefield side that steamrolled League Leaders' Shield winners Wigan last week will be lining up the same way as they aim to rumble on at Old Trafford tonight.

Jack Sinfield starts at scrum-half, and has a shot at emulating his highly decorated father Kevin Sinfield who won seven Super League Grand Finals with Leeds.

Warrington Wolves: Thewlis, Hopoate, Lindop, King, Ashton, Williams (c), Irwin, Byrne, Walker, Harrison, Bentley, Stone, Currie.

Interchanges: Yates, Powell, Philbin, Tanginoa.

Wakefield Trinity: Jowitt, Walmsley, Scott, Hall, Johnstone, Trueman, Sinfield, McMeeken (c), Smmothy, Rodwell, Vagana, Lipowicz, Tevaga.

Interchanges: Lino, Pitts, Hamlin-Uele, Faatili.

Adam Lanigan
BBC Sport reporter at Old Trafford

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You could not wish for a better evening for rugby league than this one.

It's been a glorious early autumn day here in Manchester with a bit of warmth in the air and plenty of fans in short sleeves in the build-up to kick-off.

There was a kaleidoscope of colour on and around the walk up from the tram to the ground with fans of both Warrington and Wakefield out in great numbers, and of all ages too.

This feels like a massive occasion and it won't just be 'another' title for either club. It would be a huge thing for either of these places to call themselves 'Super League Champions'.

That really adds a fantastic dimension to this game.

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Follow the yellow brick road...

We're off to see The Trin, the Mighty Trin of Wakefield...

Yeah, I've butchered the words there but you know the tune.

When BBC Sport's rugby league reporter Matt Newsum sat down to write about the whirlwind rise of Wakefield that has landed them at Old Trafford for the Grand Final, well it got him thinking of one Miss Dorothy Gale and her whimsical trip to the Land of Oz.

Give the piece a read, as it is a fascinating dive into the past and passion that makes Wakefield Trinity unique.

Click here to read on.

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Motorways weren't a thing in Britain, and the human race was still years away from blasting into space for the first time when Warrington last ruled British rugby league.

It has been 71 years since the Wire won the last of their championship titles.

In much more recent times, they have earned the unenviable tag as Super League nearly men after reaching and losing four Grand Finals between 2012 and 2018.

BBC Sport's Jay Freeman wrote about how head coach Sam Burgess again has Warrington on the cusp of the northern hemisphere's biggest rugby league prize. Click here to read on.

I'm getting this shout out nice and early.

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Will Warrington finally come out on top at Old Trafford, or will the stunning rise of Wakefield hit a trophy-clenching high in Manchester tonight?

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Why so many black and white pictures?

While both Warrington and Wakefield are today battling it out for their first Super League crown, these are clubs that have ruled the British game in the past… the distant past.

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Brian Bevan, pictured below with the 1955 player of the year award in his hands, is cherished as the being the “shining light” of the club’s greatest era in which they twice collected the Challenge Cup trophy and won the English league title three times in the 1940s and 1950s.

The halcyon days of Wakefield came in the 1960s, with Neil Fox MBE (pictured below in action against Hull FC) among a long list of legends that helped deliver a bevy of trophies that decade.