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1992 Lancashire Cup
StructureRegional knockout championship
Teams16
WinnersWigan
Runners-upSt. Helens
 

The 1992 Lancashire Cup was the 80th and last occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion was held. Wigan won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 5-4 in the final.

Background

The failure of London Crusaders to enter, due primarily to financial pressures, resulted in the number of entrants this year decreasing by one to 16.
This resulted in a full fixture list, with no requirement for a preliminary round, nor any “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.

Competition and Results

Round 1

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs.[1]


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Fri 11 Sep 1992 Rochdale Hornets 8-36 Wigan Spotland 2936 [2]
2 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Barrow 2-36 St. Helens Craven Park 2317 [3]
3 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Blackpool Gladiators 8-22 Workington Town Jepson Way, Blackpool 736 1
4 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Leigh 50-9 Chorley Borough (2) Hilton Park 1332
5 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Oldham 33-20 Warrington Watersheddings 4041 [4]
6 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Salford 60-8 Whitehaven The Willows 1985
7 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Swinton 40-10 Highfield Station Road 616
8 Sun 13 Sep 1992 Widnes 52-8 Carlisle Naughton Park 3733 2 [5]

Round 2 - Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Wed 23 Sep 1992 Leigh 14-26 Oldham Hilton Park 3395
2 Wed 23 Sep 1992 Salford 42-20 Workington Town The Willows 2143
3 Tue 29 Sep 1992 Swinton 0-78 Wigan Station Road 3501 [2]
4 Wed 30 Sep 1992 St. Helens 10-8 Widnes Knowsley Road 12573 [3][5]

Round 3 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
1 Tue 06 Oct 1992 Wigan 48-8 Oldham Central Park 8954 [2]
2 Wed 07 Oct 1992 St. Helens 18-5 Salford Knowsley Road 9289 [3]

Final

The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 20,534.


Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Sunday 18 October 1992 Wigan 5-4 St. Helens Knowsley Road 20534 3 4 [2][3]

Teams and Scorers[3]

Wigan № St. Helens
teams
Steve Hampson 1 Phil Veivers
Jason Robinson 2 Alan Hunte
Joe Lydon 3 Gary Connolly
Andrew Farrar 4 Jarrod McCracken
Martin Offiah 5 Anthony Sullivan
Frano Botica 6 Tea Ropati
Shaun Edwards 7 Jonathan Griffiths
Kelvin Skerrett 8 John Harrison[1]
Martin Dermott 9 Bernard Dwyer
Andy Platt 10 Kevin Ward
Denis Betts 11 Chris Joynt
Billy McGinty 12 Sonny Nickle
Dean Bell 13 Shane Cooper
Neil Cowie (for Steve Hampson 24min) 14 xGus O'Donnell[2] (for Phil Veivers 50min)
Martin Crompton (for Martin Offiah Half Time) 15 Paul Forber[3] (for John Harrison 65min)
John Monie Coach Mike McClennan
5 score 4
5 HT 0
Scorers
Goals
Frano Botica (2) G Bernard Dwyer (2)
Drop Goals
Frano Botica (1) DG
Referee Stuart Cummings (Widnes)
Man of the match ?
sponsored by Greenall Whitley
Competition Sponsor Greenalls

Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

The road to success

First Round Second Round Semi Finals Final
            
Swinton 40
Highfield 10
Swinton 0
Wigan 78
Rochdale Hornets 8
Wigan 36
Wigan 48
Oldham 8
Leigh 50
Chorley Borough (2) 9
Leigh 14
Oldham 26
Oldham 33
Warrington 20
Wigan 5
St. Helens 4
Barrow 2
St. Helens 36
St. Helens 10
Widnes 8
Widnes 52
Carlisle 8
St. Helens 18
Salford 5
Salford 60
Whitehaven 8
Salford 42
Workington Town 20
Blackpool Gladiators 8
Workington Town 22

Notes and comments

1 * The attendance is given as 3,500 in the Widnes official archives[5] - RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives it as 3,499||[5]
2 * The official Widnes archives[5] give the attendance as 3,700 - RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] data gives it as 3,733
3 * St Helens won the toss for the home advantage
4 * Knowsley Road was the home ground of St. Helens from 1890 to 2010. The final capacity was in the region of 18,000, although the actual record attendance was 35,695 set on December 26, 1949, for a league game between St Helens and Wigan

Postscript

To date, this was the last season for the Lancashire (and Yorkshire) Cup competitions, which except for the break due to the two World Wars, had taken place annually since its inauguration in the 1905–06 season.
It was fitting that the last name on the cup should be the same as the first, that of Wigan, and that the last final should be between the two clubs which had the best records in the competition.
It was only after the two county finals had been played that it was announced that the competitions were to be scrapped; news which came as a major surprise and shock to the fans. The reasons given by the ruling body, the Rugby Football League, were that it was deemed the cup was adding to fixture congestion for more successful sides and also that a local county cup did not fit the modern image of Rugby League.

Records from the Lancashire Cup competition

Club and individual records

In the Final Team
Most appearances Wigan 35
Most wins Wigan 21
Highest Score Wigan 34-8 v Warrington 1985
Widest margin St. Helens 30-2 v Oldham 1968
Biggest Attendance 42795 St. Helens v Wigan (at Swinton) 1953
Individual
Most tries Brian Nordgren 4 Wigan v Leigh 1949
Most goals Jim Ledgard 7 Leigh v Widnes 1955
Steve Hesford 7 Warrington v Wigan 1980
David Stephenson 7 Wigan v Warrington 1985
Most points Steve Hesford 17 (7g+1t) Warrington v Widnes 1980
In the competition
Highest Score St. Helens 112-0 Carlisle 1986
Other score over 100 St. Helens 104-12 v Trafford Borough 1991

Entrants, number of final & semi-Final appearances by clubs, and years

This table lists all the semi-professional clubs which have entered the competition and the number (and dates) of their cup final wins, cup final runner-up spots, and losing semi-Final appearances.

No. cup winner No, runner-up No losing Semi-Final appearances
Acton & Willesden
Barrow 2 1954, 1983 1 1937 9 1919 (spring), 1921, 1924, 1925, 1931, 1936, 1955, 1958, 1979
Broughton Rangers 2 1906, 1920, 1 1907 3 1930, 1937, 1945
Belle Vue Rangers 2 1946, 1947 2 1948, 1951
Blackpool Borough/successors 2 1960, 1966
Carlisle 2 1982, 1991
London Crusaders 1 1982
Huyton
Leigh 4 1952, 1955, 1970, 1981 8 1905 (after replay), 1909, 1920, 1922, 1949, 1951, 1963, 1969 13 1907, 1913, 1921, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1965, 1968, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1990
Liverpool Stanley 2 1934, 1938
Liverpool City
London Highfield
Oldham 9 1907, 1910, 1913, 1919, 1924, 1933, 1956, 1957, 1958 9 1908, 1911, 1919 (spring), 1921, 1954,1966, 1968, 1986, 1989 17 1905, 1906, 1923, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1935, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1980, 1992
Rochdale Hornets 3 1911, 1914, 1919 (spring), 4 1912, 1919, 1965, 1991 6 1969, 1910, 1939, 1947, 1957, 1969
Runcorn 2 1906, 1908, 1909
Runcorn Highfield
St. Helens 11 1926, 1953, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1967 (after replay), 1968, 1984, 1991 8 1932, 1952, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1970, 1982, 1992 15 1912, 1913, 1924, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1950, 1957, 1960, 1971, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1986,
St Helens Recs 2 1923, 1930 3 1924, 1926, 1933 3 1920, 1936, 1945
Salford 5 1931, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1972 7 1929, 1938, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1988, 1990 11 1907, 1912, 1926, 1927, 1932, 1961, 1968, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1992
Streatham & Mitcham
Swinton 4 1925, 1927, 1939, 1969 8 1910, 1923, 1931, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1972 9 1909, 1914, 1919 (Aut), 1929, 1934, 1967, 1971, 1983, 1987
Warrington 9 1921, 1929, 1932, 1967, 1959, 1965, 1980, 1982, 1989 6 1906, 1948, 1950, 1967 (after replay), 1985, 1987 21 1908, 1910, 1914, 1922, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1938, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1976, 1979, 1983, 1988, 1990,
Whitehaven 2 1959, 1973
Widnes 7 1945, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1990 6 1928, 1939, 1955, 1971, 1981, 1983 20 1905, 1911, 1919 (Aut), 1920, 1922, 1926, 1931, 1937, 1946, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1970, 1972, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
Wigan 21 1905 (after replay), 1908, 1909, 1912, 1922, 1928, 1938, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1966, 1971, 1973, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992 14 1913, 1914, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1945, 1953, 1957, 1977, 1980, 1984 11 1911, 1919 (Spring), 1932, 1933, 1959, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1989, 1991
Wigan Highfield
Workington Town 1 1977 3 1976, 1978, 1979 9 1947, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1962, 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rugby League Project".
  2. ^ a b c d "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  3. ^ a b c d e "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896–97".
  4. ^ "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2010-07-06. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b c d e "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896–97".
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