Teams 16 Runners-up Salford | Winners Wigan | |
Structure Regional knockout championship | ||
The 1988 Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition
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1988 was the seventy-sixth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.
Wigan won the trophy by beating Salford by the score of 22-17
The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 19,154 and receipts were £71,879.00
This was Wigan’s fifth appearance and fourth consecutive victory in what was a run of four victories and five appearances in five successive years.
The attendance was again at a very pleasing level, the fifth of the five year period when it would reach around the 20,000 level, and the receipts reached a new record level exceeding the previous record by approximately £4,500.00; a record which would never be beaten in a Lancashire Cup Final
Background
This season the total number of entrants remained at the 16 level.
With this full sixteen members there was no need for “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.
Round 1
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 Clubs
Round 2 - Quarter Finals
Involved 4 matches and 8 Clubs
Round 3 – Semi-Finals
Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs
Teams and Scorers
Scoring - Try = four (4) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point