| 1925–26 Lancashire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout competition |
| Season Champs: | Swinton |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Second Place: | Wigan |
| Prevseason Link: | 1924 Lancashire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1924–25 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1926 Lancashire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1926–27 |
| No Of Teams: | 13 |
The 1925–26 Lancashire Cup was the eighteenth tournament in the history of this regional rugby league competition, and another new name was added to the trophy. This time it was the turn of Swinton, one of the founding members of the Northern Union, whose previous best had been as runners up to Oldham in 1910.
The number of teams entering this year's competition remained at 13 which resulted in 3 byes in the first round.
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 10 October 1925 | Leigh | 10–7 | Rochdale Hornets | Mather Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 10 October 1925 | Oldham | 14–9 | St. Helens | Watersheddings | [2] | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 10 October 1925 | Wigan Highfield | 6–7 | Salford | Tunstall Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 10 October 1925 | Barrow | 8–0 | Widnes | Little Park, Roose | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 10 October 1925 | Wigan | 14–10 | Warrington | Central Park | [4] [5] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Broughton Rangers | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | St Helens Recs | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Swinton | bye |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 19 October 1925 | Oldham | 8–5 | Salford | Watersheddings | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 21 October 1925 | Wigan | 31–8 | Broughton Rangers | Central Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Thu 22 October 1925 | Barrow | 8–6 | Leigh | Little Park, Roose | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Thu 22 October 1925 | St Helens Recs | 7–8 | Swinton | City Road |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 2 November 1925 | Oldham | 5–5 | Wigan | Watersheddings | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 4 November 1925 | Swinton | 22–3 | Barrow | Chorley Road ground | 8,000 | |||||||||||||||||
| Replay | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 11 November 1925 | Wigan | 52–3 | Oldham | Central Park | ||||||||||||||||||
The final was due to be played on Saturday, 21 November 1925 but was postponed due to bad weather, in this case fog. The weather during that short period was atrocious and in fact Wigan had 5 matches postponed due to either a waterlogged pitch, a frozen pitch, fog or other bad weather in the four-week period from early November to early December. The final was eventually played on Wednesday 9 December 1925 and Swinton beat Wigan by 15–11. The match was played at the Cliff, Broughton, Salford. The attendance was 15,000 and receipts £1,116.
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=45 abbr="Att" | Att | width=60 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 21 November 1925 | Swinton | post | Wigan | The Cliff | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday 9 December 1925 | Swinton | 15–11 | Wigan | The Cliff | 17,000 | £1,115 | 2 | [6] |
| width=280 abbr="Swinton" | Swinton | width=60 abbr="Number" | No. | width=280 abbr="Wigan" | Wigan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Jack Pearson | 1 | Jim Sullivan | |||
| Frank Evans | 2 | Johnny Ring | |||
| Hector Halsall (c) | 3 | Tommy Howley | |||
| Jack Evans | 4 | David Booysen | |||
| Chris Brockbank | 5 | Attie van Heerden | |||
| Billo Rees | 6 | George Owens | |||
| Bryn Evans | 7 | Danny Hurcombe | |||
| Miller Strong | 8 | Wilf Hodder | |||
| Henry Blewer | 9 | Jack Bennett | |||
| Bert Morris | 10 | Bob Ilsley | |||
| Tom Halliwell | 11 | George van Rooyen | |||
| Harry Entwistle | 12 | Frank Stephens | |||
| Fred Beswick | 13 | Jack Price | |||
| 15 | score | 11 | |||
| 5 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Chris Brockbank (1) | T | Johnny Ring (3) | |||
| Jack Evans (1) | T | ||||
| Bryn Evans (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Bert Morris (3) | G | Jim Sullivan (1) | |||
| G | |||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | |||||