Champions Wigan Top point-scorer(s) Jim Sullivan 406 Start date 1933 Number of teams 28 | League Leaders Salford Top try-scorer(s) Brown 45 Champion Wigan Warriors | |
League Northern Rugby Football League People also search for 1921–22 Northern Rugby Football Union season | ||
The 1933–34 Rugby Football League season was the 39th season of rugby league football. The first rugby league club in London, London Highfield competed in its inaugural season.
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Season summary
Wigan won their fourth Championship when they beat Salford 15-3 in the play-off final.
Salford had ended the regular season as league leaders.
The Challenge Cup winners were Hunslet who beat Widnes 11-5.
Work begins at a former quarry that was being used as a waste dump at Odsal Top in Bradford after Bradford Northern sign a ten-year lease with the local council. This was to become the site of their current home ground, Odsal Stadium.
Salford won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. Oldham beat St Helens Recs 12–0 to win the Lancashire Cup, and York beat Hull Kingston Rovers 10–4 to win the Yorkshire Cup.
Challenge Cup
Hunslet defeated Widnes 11-5 in the final at Wembley before a crowd of 41,280.
This was Hunslet’s second Cup Final win, the first being in 1908, in their third Cup Final appearance.