The 2016 RFL Women's Challenge Cup was an English
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
knockout tournament competed for by 12 teams during the summer of 2016. The
Challenge Cup
The Rugby Football League Challenge Cup, commonly known just as the Challenge Cup is a Single-elimination tournament, knockout rugby league cup competition organised by the Rugby Football League, held annually since 1896, it is the world's old ...
was won by who beat 6–62 in the final. The Challenge Shield was won by the Thatto Heath Reserves team who beat Whitley Bay Barbarians 0–44 in the final. Both finals took place on 31 July 2016 at the
Provident Stadium,
Bradford
Bradford is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the Local Government Act 1972, 1974 reform, the city status in the United Kingdo ...
.
Round One
The first round took place on 8 May:
Quarter Finals
The quarter finals took place on 12 June:
Semi-Finals
The semi-finals were played on 13 July and 17 July:
Final
The final took place on 31 July at
Provident Stadium in Bradford.
Thatto Heath were reigning champions having won the cup in 2013, 2014 and 2015. It was a first Challenge Cup Final appearance for Leigh Miners Rangers
[ who had won the Plate final at the 2015 Grand Finals day.]
Challenge Shield
The Challenge Shield was competed for by the teams that lost in the first round of the cup and additional teams from the Merit League.[
]
Shield Round One
The first round took place on 12 June:
Shield Semi-Finals
Selby Warriors withdrew from the competition resulting in a walkover
John Baxter Taylor and William Robbins (athlete)">William Robbins to refuse to race in protest.
A walkover, also W.O. or w/o (originally two words: "walk over"), is awarded to the opposing team/player, etc., if there are no other players avail ...
for Whitley Bay Barbarians. The other semi-final was played on 17 July:
Shield Final
The final of the Shield took place on 31 July at Provident Stadium, Bradford, before the Challenge Cup final. The score was Whitley Bay Barbarians 0–44 Thatto Heath. Several of the Thatto Heath players were also named in the team for the cup final.[
]
References
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2016
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* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2016 in English rugby league
2016 in English women's sport