1982–83 League Cup (rugby league)

1982–83 League Cup
1982–83 League Cup
Structure	National knockout championship
Teams	33
Winners	Wigan
Runners-up	Leeds
	← 1981–82 1983–84 →

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	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 Kingston Rovers	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	Notes	Ref

1	Sat 11 Dec 1982	Hull Kingston Rovers	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	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 Kingston Rovers	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	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[]

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]^[13]^[14]

Teams and scorers[]

^[15]^[13]^[14]

Wigan	№	Leeds

	teams
	1	Neil Hague
	2
David Stephenson	3	Ian Wilkinson
Colin Whitfield	4	Les Dyl
Henderson Gill	5
	6	John Holmes
	7	Kevin Dick
Glyn Shaw	8	Roy Dickinson
Nicky Kiss	9	David Ward
Danny Campbell	10
Graeme West	11
Mick Scott	12
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

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		(Widnes)
Man of the match		- Wigan - stand-off
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

^[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		Semifinals		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.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Rugby League Project".
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".
^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 1 archived results".
^ ^a ^b "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".
^ ^a ^b ^c "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".
^ ^a ^b "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.
^ "Wakefield until I die".
^ ^a ^b ^c "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".
^ ^a ^b ^c "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 2 archived results".
^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 3 archived results".
^ "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player s-Final archived results".
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.
^ ^a ^b Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.
^ ^a ^b "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Final archived results".

External links[]

[RLP.orgMisc-1] "Rugby League Project".

[CherryMisc-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results".

[CherryJP1Misc-3] "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 1 archived results".

[SaintsMisc-4] "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97".

[HullMisc-5] "HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results".

[HuddHeritageMisc-6] "Huddersfield Rugby League Heritage" (PDF).

[WiresMisc-7] "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 2014-02-02.

[WakefieldTIDMisc-8] "Wakefield until I die".

[ChemicsMisc-9] "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97".

[CherryJP2Misc-10] "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 2 archived results".

[CherryJP3Misc-11] "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 3 archived results".

[CherryJPSFMisc-12] "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player s-Final archived results".

[Roth1990-91Misc-13] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1990). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990-1991. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617851 X.

[Roth1991-92Misc-14] Raymond Fletcher and David Howes (1991). Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1991-100. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0 35617852 8.

[CherryJPFMisc-15] "Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Final archived results".

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