Australian halfback Jarrod Sammut kicked two match-winning penalty goals to give the London Broncos a 4-2 win over the Toronto Wolfpack in the Million Pound Game in Canada on Sunday.
The Broncos outlasted the fledgling Wolfpack, who were founded in 2016, to seal the fourth and final spot in the Super League for next season - as well as more than STG1 million ($A1.9 million) in funding.
A near-capacity crowd of 9,266 packed into the suburban Lamport Stadium for the fourth-versus-fifth play-off for teams from the second-tier Championship.
In the first minute of the game, a disallowed try to Wolfpack skipper and former NRL playmaker Josh McCrone set the tone for a defensive and scrappy contest.
The Wolfpack balanced a litany of errors with solid defence in the first half as they withstood a series of attacks on their own line, which the Broncos squandered with poor fifth-tackle decisions.
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Despite the Wolfpack being reduced to 12 men after a dangerous hit from their utility Andy Ackers, neither side managed to cross and the Broncos drew first blood with an early penalty conversion from Sammut giving them a 2-0 lead at the break.
Midway through the second half, Toronto made an unusual decision to take the two points from a penalty 42 metres out, but fullback Gareth O'Brien slotted it to equal the score at 2-2.
But Sammut stepped up yet again only a minute later to regain the lead at 4-2 and never looked back.
