1982–83 League Cup (rugby league)

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

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

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 1982Huyton9-19Workington TownAlt Park, Huyton240

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
1Sat 27 Nov 1982St. Helens17-5FulhamKnowsley Road2365[4]
2Sun 5 Dec 1982Blackpool Borough6-5BatleyBorough Park592
3Sun 5 Dec 1982Cardiff City7-11Rochdale HornetsNinian Park620
4Sun 5 Dec 1982Carlisle26-17DoncasterBrunton Park1413
5Sun 5 Dec 1982Castleford10-16WiganWheldon Road5422[2]
6Sun 5 Dec 1982Dewsbury11-28BarrowCrown Flatt866
7Sun 5 Dec 1982Featherstone Rovers14-18Hull F.C.Post Office Road4005[5]
8Sun 5 Dec 1982Hull Kingston Rovers42-3WhitehavenCraven Park (1)5929
9Sun 5 Dec 1982Keighley0-18Bradford NorthernLawkholme Lane4278
10Sun 5 Dec 1982Leeds17-7BramleyHeadingley4085
11Sun 5 Dec 1982Leigh13-12OldhamHilton Park5780
12Sun 5 Dec 1982Salford23-11HunsletThe Willows1471
13Sun 5 Dec 1982Swinton13-22HuddersfieldStation Road1417[6]
14Sun 5 Dec 1982Warrington19-8HalifaxWilderspool2892[7]
15Sun 5 Dec 1982Widnes17-12Wakefield TrinityNaughton Park4075[8][9]
16Sun 5 Dec 1982York18-15Workington TownClarence Street2134

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
1Sat 11 Dec 1982Hull Kingston Rovers36-7LeighCraven Park (1)59751
2Sun 12 Dec 1982Bradford Northern12-12Hull F.C.Odsal62221[5]
3Sun 12 Dec 1982Carlisle2-10WidnesBrunton Park19051
4Sun 12 Dec 1982Leeds31-10YorkHeadingley37181
5Sun 12 Dec 1982Rochdale Hornets5-27BarrowAthletic Grounds12951
6Sun 12 Dec 1982Salford21-19HuddersfieldThe Willows19241[6]
7Sun 12 Dec 1982Warrington36-15Blackpool BoroughWilderspool23471, 2[7]
8Sun 12 Dec 1982Wigan9-5St. HelensCentral Park121721[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 1982Hull F.C.8-10Bradford NorthernBoulevard76281[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
1Sat 18 Dec 1982Salford4-5WiganThe Willows3237[2]
2Sun 19 Dec 1982Barrow8-13LeedsCraven Park4216
3Sun 19 Dec 1982Warrington11-10Hull Kingston RoversWilderspool3943[7]
4Sun 19 Dec 1982Widnes16-10Bradford NorthernNaughton Park4667[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
1Tue 28 Dec 1982Leeds8-2WidnesFartown7247[9]
2Sat 1 Jan 1983Wigan15-14WarringtonKnowsley Road9017[2][7]

Final
Game No Fixture Date Home Team Score Away Team Venue Att Rec Notes Ref
Saturday 22 January 1983Wigan15-4LeedsElland Road19553490273[2][13][14]

Teams and Scorers

[15][13][14]

Wigan № Leeds
teams
Barry Williams1Neil Hague
Dennis Ramsdale2Mark Campbell
David Stephenson3Ian Wilkinson
Colin Whitfield4Les Dyl
Henderson Gill5Andy Smith
Martin Foy6John Holmes
Jimmy Fairhurst7Kevin Dick
Glyn Shaw8Roy Dickinson
Nicky Kiss9David Ward
Danny Campbell10Tony Burke
Graeme West11Andy Sykes
Mick Scott12Wayne Heron
John Pendlebury13David Heron
Brian Juliff (for Henderson Gill 61 min)14? Not used
Brian Case (for Graeme West 50 min)15? Not used
Alex MurphyCoachRobin Dewhurst
15score4
3HT4
Scorers
Tries
Henderson Gill (1)T
Brian Juliff (1)T
Goals
Colin Whitfield (4)GKevin Dick (2)
Drop Goals
Colin Whitfield (1)DG
RefereeRonald "Ronnie" Campbell (Widnes)
Man of the matchMartin Foy - Wigan - stand-off
Competition SponsorJohn Player

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

Timeline in the final
Time Incident Score
7 minDrop goal: Colin Whitfield1-0
?Penalty Goal: Kevin Dick1-2
?Penalty Goal: Kevin Dick1-4
?Penalty Goal: Colin Whitfield3-4
Half Time3-4
57 minTry: Henderson Gill6-4
Conversion: Colin Whitfield8-4
64 minPenalty Goal: Colin Whitfield10-4
?Try: Brian Juliff13-4
Conversion: Colin Whitfield15-4
Full Time15-4

[15]

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 Kingston Rovers 10
Hull Kingston Rovers 42
Whitehaven 3
Hull Kingston Rovers 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. "Rugby League Project".
  2. "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
  3. "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 1 archived results".
  4. "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
  5. "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
  6. "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
  7. "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
  8. "Wakefield until I die".
  9. "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
  10. "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. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
  14. Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
  15. "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Final archived results".
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