1975-76 Players No.6 Trophy
| 1975–76 League Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | National knockout championship |
| Teams | 32 |
| Winners | Widnes |
| Runners-up | Hull F.C. |
This was the fifth season for the League Cup, known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.
Widnes won the trophy by beating Hull F.C. by the score of 19-13 in the final played at Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire. The attendance was 9,035 and receipts were £6275.
This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.
Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs
Involved 8 matches and 16 clubs
Involved 1 match and 2 clubs
Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point
As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-
This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures
1 * Mayfield are a Junior (amateur) club from Rochdale
2 * Although Mayfield were drawn at home, the match was moved to Salford
3 * Rothmans Rugby League Yearbooks 1990-1991 and 1991-92 and Wigan official archives give the score as 3-57, but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects and The News of the World/Empire News annual 1976–77 give it as 3-53
4 * Pilkington Recs are a Junior (amateur) club from St Helens, home ground was City Road until they moved to Ruskin Drive from 2011-12
5 * Wigan official archives gives the score as 25-8 but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects gives it as 28-8
6 * Wigan official archives gives the score as 23-3 but RUGBYLEAGUEprojects and The News of the World/Empire News annual 1976–77 give it as 23-8
7 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
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.
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