Teams 16 Runners-up Featherstone Rovers | Winners Leeds | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1976 Yorkshire Cup was the sixty-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Contents
- Background
- Round 1
- Round 2 Quarter Finals
- Round 2 Replays
- Round 3 Semi Finals
- Teams and Scorers
- References
Leeds won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 16-12
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,645 and receipts were £5,198
This was Leeds' sixth victory (and the second of two consecutive victories) in what would be eight times in the space of thirteen seasons.
It as also Featherstone Rovers's first of two consecutive Yorkshire Cup final appearances, both of which resulted in a defeat
Background
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Round 2 - Replays
Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point