1992–93 Lancashire Cup

1992 Lancashire Cup

Structure| Regional knockout championship
Teams| 16
Winners| Wigan
Runners-up| St. Helens

← 1991–92

The 1992 Lancashire Cup was the 80th and last occasion on which the Lancashire Cup competition was held. Wigan won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 5-4 in the final.

## Background[edit]

The failure of London Crusaders to enter, due primarily to financial pressures, resulted in the number of entrants this year decreasing by one to 16.
This resulted in a full fixture list, with no requirement for a preliminary round, nor any “blank” or “dummy” fixtures or any byes.

## Competition and results[edit]

### Round 1[edit]

Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs.[1]

Game No  | Fixture Date  | Home Team  |  | Score  |  | Away Team  | Venue  | Att  | Rec  | Notes  | Ref

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1 | Fri 11 Sep 1992 | Rochdale Hornets |  | 8-36 |  | Wigan | Spotland | 2936 |  |  | [2]
2 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Barrow |  | 2-36 |  | St. Helens | Craven Park | 2317 |  |  | [3]
3 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Blackpool Gladiators |  | 8-22 |  | Workington Town | Jepson Way, Blackpool | 736 |  | 1 |
4 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Leigh |  | 50-9 |  | Chorley Borough (2) | Hilton Park | 1332 |  |  |
5 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Oldham |  | 33-20 |  | Warrington | Watersheddings | 4041 |  |  | [4]
6 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Salford |  | 60-8 |  | Whitehaven | The Willows | 1985 |  |  |
7 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Swinton |  | 40-10 |  | Highfield | Station Road | 616 |  |  |
8 | Sun 13 Sep 1992 | Widnes |  | 52-8 |  | Carlisle | Naughton Park | 3733 |  | 2 | [5]

### Round 2 - Quarter-finals[edit]

Involved four matches and eight clubs. In Wigan's match against Swinton, Shaun Edwards scored ten tries, equalling the club record for most tries in a match set by Martin Offiah a few months earlier.[6]

Game No  | Fixture Date  | Home Team  | Score  | Away Team  | Venue  | Att  | Rec  | Notes  | Ref

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1 | Wed 23 Sep 1992 | Leigh | 14–26 | Oldham | Hilton Park | 3395 |  |  |
2 | Wed 23 Sep 1992 | Salford | 42–20 | Workington Town | The Willows | 2143 |  |  |
3 | Tue 29 Sep 1992 | Swinton | 0–78 | Wigan | Gigg Lane | 3501 |  |  | [2]
4 | Wed 30 Sep 1992 | St. Helens | 10–8 | Widnes | Knowsley Road | 12573 |  |  | [3][5]

### Round 3 – Semi-finals[edit]

Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Game No  | Fixture Date  | Home Team  |  | Score  |  | Away Team  | Venue  | Att  | Rec  | Notes  | Ref

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1 | Tue 06 Oct 1992 | Wigan |  | 48-8 |  | Oldham | Central Park | 8954 |  |  | [2]
2 | Wed 07 Oct 1992 | St. Helens |  | 18-5 |  | Salford | Knowsley Road | 9289 |  |  | [3]

### Final[edit]

The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 20,534.

18 October 1992

St Helens | 4 – 5  | Wigan

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Goals: Dwyer (2)
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| Goals: Botica (2)
Drop goals: Botica

Knowsley Road, St Helens
Attendance: 20,534
Referee: Stuart Cummings (Widnes)

#### Teams and scorers[edit]

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Wigan | №  | St. Helens

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Steve Hampson | 1 | Phil Veivers
Jason Robinson | 2 | Alan Hunte
Joe Lydon | 3 | Gary Connolly
Andrew Farrar | 4 | Jarrod McCracken
Martin Offiah | 5 | Anthony Sullivan
Frano Botica | 6 | Tea Ropati
Shaun Edwards | 7 | Jonathan Griffiths
Kelvin Skerrett | 8 | John Harrison[1]
Martin Dermott | 9 | Bernard Dwyer
Andy Platt | 10 | Kevin Ward
Denis Betts | 11 | Chris Joynt
Billy McGinty | 12 | Sonny Nickle
Dean Bell | 13 | Shane Cooper
Neil Cowie (for Steve Hampson 24min) | 14 | xGus O'Donnell[2] (for Phil Veivers 50min)
Martin Crompton (for Martin Offiah Half Time) | 15 | Paul Forber[3] (for John Harrison 65min)
John Monie | Coach | Mike McClennan

### The road to success[edit]

| First round | | | Second round | | | Semi-finals | | | Final |

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| Swinton | 40 | | | |
| Highfield | 10 |
| | Swinton | 0 |
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| | | Wigan | 78 |
| Rochdale Hornets | 8 |

| Wigan | 36 |
| | Wigan | 48 |
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| | | Oldham | 8 |
| Leigh | 50 | |

| Chorley Borough (2) | 9 |
| | Leigh | 14 |
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| | | Oldham | 26 |
| Oldham | 33 |

| Warrington | 20 |
| | Wigan | 5 |
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| | | St. Helens | 4 |
| Barrow | 2 | | |

| St. Helens | 36 |
| | St. Helens | 10 |
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| | | Widnes | 8 |
| Widnes | 52 |

| Carlisle | 8 |
| | St. Helens | 18 |
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| | | Salford | 5 |
| Salford | 60 | |

| Whitehaven | 8 |
| | Salford | 42 |
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| | | Workington Town | 20 |
| Blackpool Gladiators | 8 |

| Workington Town | 22 |

## Notes and comments[edit]

1 * The attendance is given as 3,500 in the Widnes official archives[5] \- RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] gives it as 3,499||[5]
2 * The official Widnes archives[5] give the attendance as 3,700 - RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] data gives it as 3,733
3 * St Helens won the toss for the home advantage
4 * Knowsley Road was the home ground of St. Helens from 1890 to 2010. The final capacity was in the region of 18,000, although the actual record attendance was 35,695, set on 26 December 1949, for a league game between St Helens and Wigan

## See also[edit]

* 1992–93 Rugby Football League season
* Rugby league county cups

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Rugby League Project".
2. ^ a b c "Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results". Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
3. ^ a b c d "Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896–97".
4. ^ "Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897". Archived from the original on 6 July 2010.
5. ^ a b c d e "Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896–97".
6. ^ "Rugby League: Edwards' tries inspire rout". The Independent. 29 September 1992. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
7. ^ Hadfield, Dave (18 October 1992). "Rugby League: Botica's boot makes the difference". The Independent. Retrieved 6 May 2023.

## External links[edit]

* "Lancashire Cup 1992/93 - Results". Rugby League Project.

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