1982–83 League Cup (rugby league)
| 1982–83 League Cup | |
|---|---|
| Structure | National knockout championship |
| Teams | 33 |
| Winners | Wigan |
| Runners-up | Leeds |
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.
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
Involved 1 matches and 2 Clubs
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 :-
Note - the author is unable to trace the award amounts for this season. Can anyone help ?
This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures
1 * Wigan official archives erroneously describe the match as being one of the first round matches
2 * Wigan official archives give the score as 36-5 but RUGBYLEAGUEproject and Warrington Wolves official archives 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
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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