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1982–83 League Cup
StructureNational knockout championship
Teams33
WinnersWigan
Runners-upLeeds

This was the twelfth season of the League Cup, which was known as the John Player Trophy for sponsorship purposes.

Wigan claimed the trophy by beating Leeds by the score of 22-11 in the final played at Elland Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The attendance was 19,553 and receipts were £49027.

Background

This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at thirty-three.
The preliminary round of one match remained

Competition and Results[1][2]

Preliminary Round

Involved 1 matches and 2 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Sun 21 Nov 1982 Huyton 9-19 Workington Town Alt Park, Huyton 240

Round 1 - First Round[3]

Involved 16 matches and 32 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 27 Nov 1982 St Helens 17-5 Fulham Knowsley Road 2365 [4]
2 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Blackpool Borough 6-5 Batley Borough Park 592
3 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Cardiff City 7-11 Rochdale Hornets Ninian Park 620
4 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Carlisle 26-17 Doncaster Brunton Park 1413
5 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Castleford 10-16 Wigan Wheldon Road 5422 [2]
6 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Dewsbury 11-28 Barrow Crown Flatt 866
7 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Featherstone Rovers 14-18 Hull F.C. Post Office Road 4005 [5]
8 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Hull KR 42-3 Whitehaven Craven Park (1) 5929
9 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Keighley 0-18 Bradford Northern Lawkholme Lane 4278
10 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Leeds 17-7 Bramley Headingley 4085
11 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Leigh 13-12 Oldham Hilton Park 5780
12 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Salford 23-11 Hunslet The Willows 1471
13 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Swinton 13-22 Huddersfield Station Road 1417 [6]
14 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Warrington 19-8 Halifax Wilderspool 2892 [7]
15 Sun 5 Dec 1982 Widnes 17-12 Wakefield Trinity Naughton Park 4075 [8][9]
16 Sun 5 Dec 1982 York 18-15 Workington Town Clarence Street 2134

Round 2 - Second Round[10]

Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 11 Dec 1982 Hull KR 36-7 Leigh Craven Park (1) 5975 1
2 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Bradford Northern 12-12 Hull F.C. Odsal 6222 1 [5]
3 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Carlisle 2-10 Widnes Brunton Park 1905 1
4 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Leeds 31-10 York Headingley 3718 1
5 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Rochdale Hornets 5-27 Barrow Athletic Grounds 1295 1
6 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Salford 21-19 Huddersfield The Willows 1924 1 [6]
7 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Warrington 36-15 Blackpool Borough Wilderspool 2347 1, 2 [7]
8 Sun 12 Dec 1982 Wigan 9-5 St Helens Central Park 12172 1 [2][4]

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
Wed 15 Dec 1982 Hull F.C. 8-10 Bradford Northern Boulevard 7628 1 [5]

Round 3 -Quarter Finals[11]

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Sat 18 Dec 1982 Salford 4-5 Wigan The Willows 3237 [2]
2 Sun 19 Dec 1982 Barrow 8-13 Leeds Craven Park 4216
3 Sun 19 Dec 1982 Warrington 11-10 Hull KR Wilderspool 3943 [7]
4 Sun 19 Dec 1982 Widnes 16-10 Bradford Northern Naughton Park 4667 [9]

Round 4 – Semi-Finals[12]

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Tue 28 Dec 1982 Leeds 8-2 Widnes Fartown 7247 [9]
2 Sat 1 Jan 1983 Wigan 15-14 Warrington Knowsley Road 9017 [2][7]

Final[13]


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 22 January 1983 Wigan 15-4 Leeds Elland Road 19553 49027 3 [2][14][15]

Teams and Scorers[13][14][15]

Wigan № Leeds
teams
Barry Williams 1 Neil Hague
Dennis Ramsdale 2 Mark Campbell
David Stephenson 3 Ian Wilkinson
Colin Whitfield 4 Les Dyl
Henderson Gill 5 Andy Smith
Martin Foy 6 John Holmes
Jimmy Fairhurst 7 Kevin Dick
Glyn Shaw 8 Roy Dickinson
Nicky Kiss 9 David Ward
Danny Campbell 10 Tony Burke
Graeme West 11 Andy Sykes
Mick Scott 12 Wayne Heron
John Pendlebury 13 David Heron
Brian Juliff (for Henderson Gill 61 min) 14 ? Not used
Brian Case (for Graeme West 50 min) 15 ? Not used
Alex Murphy Coach Robin Dewhurst
15 score 4
3 HT 4
Scorers
Tries
Henderson Gill (1) T
Brian Juliff (1) T
Goals
Colin Whitfield (4) G Kevin Dick (2)
Drop Goals
Colin Whitfield (1) DG
Referee Ronald "Ronnie" Campbell (Widnes)
Man of the match Martin Foy - Wigan - Stand-off/Five-eighth
Competition Sponsor John Player

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

Timeline in the final


Time Incident Score
7 min Drop goal: Colin Whitfield 1-0
? Penalty Goal: Kevin Dick 1-2
? Penalty Goal: Kevin Dick 1-4
? Penalty Goal: Colin Whitfield 3-4
Half Time 3-4
57 min Try: Henderson Gill 6-4
Conversion: Colin Whitfield 8-4
64 min Penalty Goal: Colin Whitfield 10-4
? Try: Brian Juliff 13-4
Conversion: Colin Whitfield 15-4
Full Time 15-4

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 ? 1 ?
Runner-up ? 1 ?
semi-finalist ? 2 ?
loser in Rd 3 ? 4 ?
loser in Rd 2 ? 8 ?
Loser in Rd 1 ? 16 ?
Loser in Prelim Round ? 1 ?
Grand Total

Note - the author is unable to trace the award amounts for this season. Can anyone help ?

The road to success

This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures

First Round Second Round Third Round Semi Finals Final
               
Salford 23
Hunslet 11
Salford 21
Huddersfield 19
Swinton 13
Huddersfield 22
Salford 4
Wigan 5
Castleford 10
Wigan 16
Wigan 9
St Helens 5
St Helens 17
Fulham 2
Wigan 15
Warrington 14
Warrington 19
Halifax 8
Warrington 36
Blackpool Borough 15
Blackpool Borough 6
Batley 5
Warrington 11
Hull KR 10
Hull KR 42
Whitehaven 3
Hull KR 36
Leigh 7
Leigh 13
Oldham 12
Wigan 15
Leeds 4
Cardiff City 7
Rochdale Hornets 11
Rochdale Hornets 5
Barrow 27
Dewsbury 11
Barrow 28
Barrow 8
Leeds 13
Leeds 17
Bramley 7
Leeds 31
York 10
York 18
Workington Town 15
Leeds 8
Widnes 2
Carlisle 26
Doncaster 17
Carlisle 2
Widnes 10
Widnes 17
Wakefield Trinity 12
Widnes 16
Bradford Northern 11
Keighley 0
Bradford Northern 18
Bradford Northern 12 (10)
Hull F.C. 12 (8)
Featherstone Rovers 14
Hull F.C. 18

Notes and comments

1 * Wigan official archives[10] erroneously describe the match as being one of the first round matches
2 * Wigan official archives[10] give the score as 36-5 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and Warrington Wolves official archives[7] give it as 36-17
3 * Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season

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 "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  3. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 1 archived results".
  4. ^ a b "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
  5. ^ a b c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. ^ a b "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
  7. ^ a b c d e "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "Wakefield until I die".
  9. ^ a b c "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
  10. ^ a b c "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 2 archived results".
  11. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 3 archived results".
  12. ^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player s-Final archived results".
  13. ^ a b "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Final archived results".
  14. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  15. ^ a b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
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