This was the fourth season for the
League Cup, which was again known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.
Bradford Northern
The Bradford Bulls are a professional rugby league club in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, and compete in the Championship, the second tier of British rugby league.
The club have won the League Championship six times, the Challenge Cup f ...
won the trophy by beating
Widnes
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Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, ...
by the score of 3–2. The final was played at
Wilderspool
Wilderspool is a district of Warrington, Cheshire, England, near the town centre. It consists of Wilderspool Causeway and the streets coming off it, the limits being the River Mersey into Stockton Heath (where it turns into London Road), Bridge ...
,
Warrington
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. The attendance was 5,935 and receipts were £3305.
Background
This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.
For the first time in the competition, there were no drawn matches.
Competition and results
First round
The first round consisted of the 30
Rugby Football League
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professional clubs, plus two amateur teams from the Castleford area,
Lock Lane and Kippax White Swan.
Second round
Involved 8 matches and 16 clubs
Quarter finals
[
Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs
]
Semi finals
[
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
]
Final
The final took place on Saturday 25 January 1975, at Wilderspool
Wilderspool is a district of Warrington, Cheshire, England, near the town centre. It consists of Wilderspool Causeway and the streets coming off it, the limits being the River Mersey into Stockton Heath (where it turns into London Road), Bridge ...
, Warrington
Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ...
. The attendance was 5,935,[The John Player Yearbook gives the attendance as 5,915, but Rothmans Rugby League Yearbooks give it as 5,935] with gate receipts of £3,305.
Teams and scorers
Prize money
As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season was as follows:
See also
*1974–75 Northern Rugby Football League season
The 1974–75 Rugby Football League season was the 80th season of competition between the clubs of England's Rugby Football League, Northern Rugby Football League. The season's First Division RFL Championship, Championship featured 16 clubs and wa ...
*1974 Lancashire Cup
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom ...
*1974 Yorkshire Cup
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom ...
*Player's No.6 Trophy
The Regal Trophy was an annual knock-out competition for British rugby league, rugby league football clubs. Organised by the Rugby Football League (RFL), the competition was open to all professional clubs in the British rugby league system, but a ...
*Rugby league county cups
Historically, English rugby league clubs competed for the Lancashire Cup and the Yorkshire Cup, known collectively as the county cups. The leading rugby clubs in Yorkshire had played in a cup competition (affectionately known as ''t’owd tin pot ...
Notes
References
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External links
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