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1989–90 League Cup
Regal Trophy logo
StructureNational knockout championship
Teams38
WinnersWigan
Runners-upHalifax

This was the nineteenth season for the competition, known from this season onwards as the Regal Trophy for sponsorship reasons.

Wigan won the final, beating Halifax by the score of 24-12 in the match was played at Headingley, Leeds. The attendance was 17,810 and receipts were £73688

Background

This season saw two changes in the existing members, and two new members, a new Chorley Borough (2) and an additional (now three in total) junior club
This brought the number of entrants up to thirty-eight
The changes in details are :-
1 Mansfield Marksman changed their name to Nottingham City and moved to a new Harvey Hadden Stadium in Nottingham
2 York had been renamed as Ryedale-York and moved to the new Ryedale Stadium on the outskirts of the city
3 Chorley Borough re-formed, this time as Trafford Borough and moved out of Chorley and to Moss Lane the home ground of Altrincham F.C.
4 and this left a vacancy in Chorley which was filled by a newly formed club using the name of the recently departed club, yet another Chorley Borough (2)

Competition and results

[1][2][3]

Preliminary round

Involved 6 matches and 12 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 8 Nov 1989 Leeds 32-2 Ryedale-York Headingley 4979
2 Wed 8 Nov 1989 Warrington 4-12 Sheffield Eagles Wilderspool 2507 [4]
3 Sun 19 Nov 1989 Crossfields (Warrington) 14-19 Workington Town Wilderspool 942 1, 2
4 Sun 19 Nov 1989 Batley 28-14 West Hull Mount Pleasant 844 3, 4
5 Sun 19 Nov 1989 Kells (Whitehaven) 2-28 Doncaster Recreation Ground 2127 5, 6, 7
6 Sun 19 Nov 1989 Wakefield Trinity 12-19 Hull F.C. Belle Vue 4731 8 [5][6]

[7]

Round 1 - First Round

Involved 16 matches and 32 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 1 Dec 1989 Sheffield Eagles 36-22 Rochdale Hornets Thrum Hall 2307 9 [8]
2 Sat 2 Dec 1989 St. Helens 40-26 Hull Kingston Rovers Knowsley Road 4888
3 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Bradford Northern 38-10 Keighley Odsal 3260
4 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Bramley 16-48 Oldham McLaren Field 1632
5 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Chorley Borough (2) 18-42 Castleford Victory Park 1256
6 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Dewsbury 14-4 Carlisle Crown Flatt 631
7 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Fulham 18-32 Halifax Chiswick Poly * 1549 10
8 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Hull F.C. 18-21 Salford Boulevard 4587 [5]
9 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Hunslet 10-6 Barrow Elland Road 537
10 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Leeds 26-12 Leigh Headingley 7712
11 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Nottingham City 18-48 Widnes Harvey Hadden Stadium 2246 [9]
12 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Swinton 18-16 Batley Station Road 1359
13 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Trafford Borough 18-36 Featherstone Rovers Moss Lane Altrincham 934
14 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Whitehaven 20-10 Runcorn Highfield Recreation Ground 603
15 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Wigan 62-4 Doncaster Central Park 7854 [2]
16 Sun 3 Dec 1989 Workington Town 4-28 Huddersfield Derwent Park 571 [10]

[7]

Round 2 - Second Round

Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 9 Dec 1989 Wigan 18-0 Widnes Central Park 12398 [2][9]
2 Sun 10 Dec 1989 Halifax 20-6 Salford Thrum Hall 6005
3 Sun 10 Dec 1989 Hunslet 4-34 Featherstone Rovers Elland Road 2031
4 Sun 10 Dec 1989 Leeds 27-8 Bradford Northern Headingley 14459
5 Sun 10 Dec 1989 Oldham 22-8 Huddersfield Watersheddings 5292 [10]
6 Sun 10 Dec 1989 St. Helens 12-12 Dewsbury Knowsley Road 5847 [8]
7 Sun 10 Dec 1989 Swinton 6-28 Sheffield Eagles Station Road 1925
8 Sun 10 Dec 1989 Whitehaven 2-62 Castleford Recreation Ground 1838

[11]

Round 2 - Second Round Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 13 Dec 1989 Dewsbury 0-14 St. Helens Crown Flatt 1981 [8]

Round 3 -Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 16 Dec 1989 Leeds 10-10 Wigan Headingley 9310 [2]
2 Sun 17 Dec 1989 Halifax 23-10 Featherstone Rovers Thrum Hall 6075
3 Sun 17 Dec 1989 St. Helens 32-18 Oldham Knowsley Road 7742 [8]
4 Sun 17 Dec 1989 Sheffield Eagles 2-18 Castleford Saltergate, Chesterfield 3014 11

[12]

Round 3 -Quarter Finals - Replays

Involved 1 match with 2 clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Thu 21 Dec 1989 Wigan 8-0 Leeds Central Park 20111 [2]

Round 4 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 23 Dec 1989 Halifax 10-9 St. Helens Central Park 6085 [8]
2 Sat 30 Dec 1989 Wigan 24-10 Castleford Headingley 10193 [2]

[13]

Final

Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 13 January 1990 Wigan 24-12 Halifax Headingley 17810 73688 12 [3][14][15]

Teams and scorers

Wigan № Halifax
teams
Joe Lydon 1 Colin Whitfield
David Marshall 2 Eddie Riddlesden
Kevin Iro 3 Tony Anderson
Dean Bell 4 Brian Hetherington
Mark Preston 5 Wilf George
Shaun Edwards 6 John Dorahy (c)
Andy Gregory 7 John Lyons
Ian Lucas 8 Brendan Hill
Martin Dermott 9 Seamus McCallion
Andy Platt 10 Lindsey Johnston
Denis Betts 11 Peter Bell
Ian Gildart 12 Richard Milner
Ellery Hanley 13 Les Holliday
Andy Goodway (for Ian Gildart 21 min) 14 Steve Smith (rugby league, Halifax) (for Colin Whitfield 17 min)
Shaun Wane (for Ian Lucas 21 min) 15 Mick Scott (for Steve Smith 66 min)
Coach
24 score 12
8 HT 4
Scorers
Tries
Shaun Edwards (1) T Brendan Hill (1)
Andy Goodway (1) T
Ellery Hanley (3) T
Goals
Joe Lydon (2) G Les Holliday (4)
Referee D. Gerald "Gerry" Kershaw (Easingwold (York))
Man of the match Ellery Hanley - Wigan - loose forward
Competition Sponsor Regal

Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point

[3][15][16]

Timeline in the final

Time Incident Score
5 min try: Shaun Edwards 4-0
15 min penalty goal: Les Holliday 4-2
31 min penalty goal: Les Holliday 4-4
38 min sin bin - punching: Lindsey Johnson
38 min cut nose - left field: Martin Dermott
39 min try: Ellery Hanley 8-4
Half Time : 8-4
45 min try: Ellery Hanley 12-4
conversion: Joe Lydon 14-4
approx 52 min penalty goal: Les Holliday 14-6
53 min sin bin brawling: Brendan Hill
53 min sin bin brawling: Andy Platt
59 min try: Ellery Hanley 18-6
conversion: Joe Lydon 20-6
71 min try: Andy Goodway 24-6
76 min try: Brendan Hill 24-10
conversion: Les Holliday 24-12
FT : 24-12

Prize money

As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-

Finish Position Cash Prize No. receiving prize Total Cash
Winner 28000 1 28000
Runner-up 15500 1 15500
losing semi-finalist 8250 2 16500
Losers in Rd 3 4800 4 19200
Losers in Rd 2 2750 8 22000
Losers in Rd 1 1745 16 27920
Appearance in Prelim Round 1740 12 20880
150000
to capital development fund 100000
Grand Total 250000

The road to success

This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures

First round Second round Third round Semifinals Final
               
Leeds 26
Leigh 12
Leeds 27
Bradford Northern 8
Bradford Northern 38
Keighley 10
Leeds 10 (0)
Wigan 10 (8)
Wigan 62
Doncaster 4
Wigan 18
Widnes 0
Nottingham City 18
Widnes 48
Wigan 24
Castleford 10
Swinton 18
Batley 16
Swinton 6
Sheffield Eagles 28
Sheffield Eagles 36
Rochdale Hornets 22
Sheffield Eagles 2
Castleford 18
Whitehaven 20
Runcorn Highfield 10
Whitehaven 2
Castleford 62
Chorley Borough (2) 18
Castleford 42
Wigan 24
Halifax 12
Fulham 18
Halifax 32
Halifax 20
Salford 6
Hull F.C. 18
Salford 21
Halifax 23
Featherstone Rovers 10
Hunslet 10
Barrow 6
Hunslet 4
Featherstone Rovers 34
Trafford Borough 18
Featherstone Rovers 36
Halifax 10
St. Helens 9
St. Helens 40
Hull Kingston Rovers 26
St. Helens 12 (14)
Dewsbury 12(0)
Dewsbury 14
Carlisle 4
St. Helens 32
Oldham 18
Bramley 16
Oldham 48
Oldham 22
Huddersfield 8
Workington Town 4
Huddersfield 28

Notes and comments

1 * Crossfields are a Junior (amateur) club from Warrington
2 * Score at half time was 8-8
3 * West Hull are a Junior (amateur) club from Hull
4 * Rothmans Yearbooks 1991–92[3] and 1991–92[15] and RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] give score as 28-14 but Wigan official archives[7] gives it as 27-14
5 * Kells are a Junior (amateur) club from Cumbria[17]
6 * The score at half time was 0-2
7 * The game was played at Whitehaven's ground
8 * This result is missing from the details given in RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1]
9 * This match played at Thrum Hall, home of Halifax - NOTE After the Hillsborough Stadium disaster Sheffield Eagles were unable to play at their home ground and during this season used 7 different venues as temporary "home" grounds
10 * At this time Fulham were a bit nomadic, using a collection of grounds as their "home", but the likelihood was that this match was probably played at Chiswick Polytechnic Sports Ground
11 * This match played at Saltergate, the home of Chesterfield F.C. - NOTE After the Hillsborough Stadium disaster Sheffield Eagles were unable to play at their home ground and during this season used 7 different venues as temporary "home" grounds
12 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.

General information for those unfamiliar

The council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's "League Cup". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. As this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the "League Cup"
The competition ran from 1971-72 until 1995–96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams. The competition was dropped due to "fixture congestion" when Rugby League became a summer sport The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January
The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971–1977), the John Player Trophy (1977–1983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983–1989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  3. ^ a b c d Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  4. ^ "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  5. ^ a b "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. ^ "Wakefield until I die".
  7. ^ a b c "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 1 archived results".
  8. ^ a b c d e "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896–97".
  9. ^ a b "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896–97".
  10. ^ a b "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
  11. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 2 archived results".
  12. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 3 archived results".
  13. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player S-F archived results".
  14. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player F archived results".
  15. ^ a b c Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  16. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  17. ^ "Kells". Archived from the original on 2011-09-19.
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