1980–81 Challenge Cup

Rugby league competition 1980–81 Three Fives Challenge Cup 5 Rounds 32 1980–81 widnes 16px Widnes Winners hull kingston rovers 16px Hull Kingston Rovers widnes 16px Mick Burke Lance Todd Trophy 1979–80 Challenge Cup 1979–80 1981–82 Challenge Cup 1981–82 The 1980–81 Challenge Cup was the 80th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. Known as the Three Fives Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons, the final was contested by Widnes and Hull Kingston Rovers at Wembley, with Widnes winning 18–9. First round Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamAttendance 1 Hull Kingston Rovers 18–13 Barrow 8,220 2 Batley 7–15 Keighley 1,714 3 Blackpool Borough 2–11 Oldham 2,837 4 Bramley 5–18 Warrington 3,350 5 Castleford 42–7 Huyton 3,020 6 Dewsbury 15–10 Hunslet 1,777 7 Fulham 5–9 Wakefield Trinity 15,013 8 Halifax 3–2 Wigan 8,360 9 Huddersfield 8–10 St. Helens 3,094 10 Hull 14–5 Leeds 15,119 11 Leigh 20–6 Whitehaven 5,139 12 Pilkington Recs 7–18 York 13 Salford 17–13 Bradford Northern 5,371 14 Swinton 8–10 Featherstone Rovers 2,987 15 Widnes 50–0 Doncaster 4,563 16 Workington Town 17–8 Rochdale Hornets 2,459 Second round Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamAttendance 1 St. Helens 5–3 Hull 8,263 2 Featherstone Rovers 10–7 Keighley 3,126 3 Hull Kingston Rovers 23–7 York 13,764 4 Oldham 18–7 Workington Town 4,350 5 Salford 12–3 Leigh 8,759 6 Wakefield Trinity 18–8 Halifax 9,604 7 Widnes 7–5 Castleford 7,436 8 Dewsbury 10–18 Warrington 5,200 Third round Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamAttendance 1 Warrington 13–9 Wakefield Trinity 7,587 2 Featherstone Rovers 5–21 Widnes 7,620 3 Hull Kingston Rovers 19–8 Salford 14,315 4 Oldham 5–6 St. Helens 8,712 Semi final 28 March 1981 Warrington 9 – 17 Widnes Try: Bevan Goal: Hesford (3) Try: Burke, Cunningham, Wright Goal: Burke (4) Central Park, Wigan 12,624 John Holdsworth (Leeds) Report 4 April 1981 Hull Kingston Rovers 22 – 5 St. Helens Try: Hogan, Hartley (2), Muscroft Goal: Hubbard (5) Try: Pinner Goal: Griffiths Headingley, Leeds 17,073 Ron Campbell (Widnes) Report Final Hull Kingston Rovers returned to Wembley as defending champions, having won the Challenge Cup for the first time in their history in the previous year. Widnes won the match 18–9, with Widnes full-back Mick Burke being awarded the Lance Todd Trophy. 2 May 1981 Widnes 18 – 9 Hull Kingston Rovers Try: Burke, George, Gregory Goal: Burke (4) Drop goal: Adams Try: Burton Goal: Hubbard (3) Wembley, London 92,496 Gerry Kershaw (Easingwold)Nicholson Geoffrey Burke has no peers The Observer 3 May 1981 27 476685224 Mick Burke Report FB 1 Mick BurkeRW 2 Stuart WrightRC 3 Mick GeorgeLC 4 Eddie CunninghamLW 5 Keith BentleySO 6 Eric HughesSH 7 Andy GregoryPR 8 Mike O'NeillHK 9 Keith ElwellPR 10 Brian LockwoodSR 11 Les Gorley SR 12 Eric PrescottLF 13 Mick Adams (c)Substitutions:IC 14 John MylerIC 15 Glyn ShawCoach: Doug Laughton FB 1 David HallRW 2 Steve HubbardRC 3 Mike SmithLC 4 Phil HoganLW 5 Peter MuscroftSO 6 Steve HartleySH 7 Paul HarkinPR 8 Roy HoldstockHK 9 David Watkinson PR 10 Steve CrooksSR 11 Phil LoweSR 12 Chris BurtonLF 13 Len Casey (c)Substitutions:IC 14 Paul ProctorIC 15 John MillingtonCoach: Roger Millward References External links Challenge Cup official website https://web.archive.org/web/20140122043124/http://www.thechallengecup.com/ 2014-01-22 Challenge Cup 1980/81 results at Rugby League Project Category:Challenge Cup Challenge Cup