1985 Challenge Cup

1985 Silk Cut Challenge Cup

Duration

6 Rounds

Number of teams

Winners

Runners-up

< 1984	Seasons	1986 >

The 1985 Challenge Cup was the 84th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup. Known as the Silk Cut Challenge Cup for sponsorship reasons, the final was contested by Wigan and Hull at Wembley. Wigan won the match 28–24.

Preliminary Round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance
1	Leeds	68–6	Bridgend	3,692
2	Barrow	12–26	Halifax	2,925
3	Salford	14–6	Featherstone Rovers	1,652
4	Doncaster	6–25	Wakefield Trinity	852

First Round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance
1	Leeds	4–14	Widnes	6,778
2	Fulham	4–17	Halifax	1,095
3	Keighley	5–12	Runcorn Highfield	837
4	Hull	52–6	Carlisle	4,588
5	Bramley	16–15	Blackpool Borough	614
6	Oldham	8–14	Castleford	6,056
7	Sheffield Eagles	19–54	Warrington	1,479
8	Wigan	46–8	Batley	9,606
9	Workington Town	28–6	Dewsbury	858
10	Rochdale Hornets	11–5	York	463
11	Salford	31–6	Swinton	4,267
12	St Helens	3–8	Hull Kingston Rovers	9,292
13	Leigh	14–6	Huddersfield	4,297
14	Mansfield Marksman	10–34	Hunslet	1,346
15	Southend Invicta	18–50	Bradford Northern	3,297
16	Whitehaven	8–10	Wakefield Trinity	1,907

Second Round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance
1	Warrington	14–24	Wigan	8,614
2	Bramley	24–10	Salford
3	Castleford	64–4	Workington Town	3,498
4	Halifax	6–22	Hull	9,362
5	Rochdale Hornets	4–38	Hull Kingston Rovers	3,449
6	Widnes	36–11	Runcorn Highfield	5,528
7	Bradford Northern	13–2	Wakefield Trinity	3,413
8	Leigh	27–28	Hunslet	3,780

Third Round

Tie no	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance
1	Hull	6–6	Widnes	11,411
Replay	Widnes	12–19	Hull	11,447
2	Bradford Northern	6–7	Wigan	15,212
3	Castleford	58–18	Bramley	4,357
4	Hunslet	7–27	Hull Kingston Rovers	6,945

Semi final

23 March 1985

Wigan	18 – 11	Hull Kingston Rovers
Try: Juliff, Stephenson, Gill Goal: Stephenson (2), Gill	Report	Try: Miller, Clark Goal: Fairbairn Drop goal: Harkin

Elland Road, Leeds
Attendance: 19,275

6 April 1985

Castleford	10 – 10	Hull
Try: Hyde, Joyner Goal: Hyde	Report	Try: O'Hara, Sterling Goal: Crooks

Headingley, Leeds
Attendance: 20,982

Replay

10 April 1985

Castleford	16 – 22	Hull
Try: Hyde, Roockley, Chapman Goal: Hyde (2)		Try: O'Hara, Sterling, James, Leuluai Goal: Crooks (3)

Headingley, Leeds
Attendance: 20,968^[1]

Final

4 May 1985

Wigan	28 – 24	Hull
Try: Ferguson (2), Kenny, Gill, Edwards Goal: Gill (3), Stephenson	Report	Try: Leuluai (2), James, Evans, Divorty Goal: Crooks (2)

Wembley, London
Attendance: 99,801
Man of the Match: Brett Kenny^[2]


FB	1	Shaun Edwards
RW	2	John Ferguson
RC	3	David Stephenson
LC	4	Steve Donlan
LW	5	Henderson Gill
SO	6	Brett Kenny
SH	7	Mike Ford
PR	8	Neil Courtney
HK	9	Nicky Kiss
PR	10	Brian Case
SR	11	Graeme West (c)
SR	12	Brian Dunn
LF	13	Ian Potter
Substitutions:
IC	14	Nick Du Toit
IC	15	Danny Campbell
Coach:
Colin Clarke Alan McInnes


FB	1	Gary Kemble
RW	2	Kevin James
RC	3	Steve Evans
LC	4	James Leuluai
LW	5	Dane O'Hara
SO	6	Fred Ah Kuoi
SH	7	Peter Sterling
PR	8	Lee Crooks (c)
HK	9	Shaun Patrick
PR	10	Neil Puckering
SR	11	John Muggleton
SR	12	Paul Rose
LF	13	Steve Norton
Substitutions:
IC	14	Gary Divorty
IC	15	Garry Schofield
Coach:
Arthur Bunting

References

↑ "10/04/1985 - Hull FC v Castleford Tigers". Hull FC. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
↑ "Challenge Cup: Brett Kenny recalls Wigan v Hull FC final of 1985". BBC Sport. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

External links

Challenge Cup official website
Challenge Cup 1984/85 results at Rugby League Project

Challenge Cup

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