| 1930–31 Lancashire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | St Helens Recs |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Wigan |
| Prevseason Link: | 1929 Lancashire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1929–30 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1931 Lancashire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1931–32 |
| No Of Teams: | 13 |
The 1930–31 Lancashire Cup was the twenty-third occasion on which the Lancashire Cup competition had been held. St Helens Recs won the trophy by beating Wigan in the final by the score of 5–4.
The number of teams entering this year's competition remained at 13 which resulted in 3 byes in the first round.[1]
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 11 Oct 1930 | Broughton Rangers | 12–7 | Wigan Highfield | The Cliff | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 11 Oct 1930 | Oldham | 7–2 | Salford | Watersheddings | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 11 Oct 1930 | Rochdale Hornets | 21–9 | Barrow | Athletic Grounds | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 11 Oct 1930 | Warrington | 2–10 | Swinton | Wilderspool | [2] | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 11 Oct 1930 | Wigan | 24–7 | St. Helens | Central Park | [3] [4] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Leigh | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | St Helens Recs | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Widnes | bye | [5] |
Involved 4 matches and 8 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 | Tue 21 Oct 1930 | Rochdale Hornets | 3–25 | Oldham | Athletic Grounds | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 22 Oct 1930 | Broughton Rangers | 10–0 | Widnes | The Cliff | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 22 Oct 1930 | Wigan | 14–9 | Swinton | Central Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Thu 23 October 1930 | St Helens Recs | 24–7 | Leigh | City Road |
Involved 2 matches and 4 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 | Wed 05 Nov 1930 | Broughton Rangers | 0–9 | Wigan | The Cliff | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Thu 06 Nov 1930 | St Helens Recs | 6–4 | Oldham | City Road |
The final was played at Station Road, Pendlebury, Salford, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 16,710 and receipts were £1,030.
| 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 29 November 1930 | St Helens Recs | 18–3 | Wigan | Station Road | 16,710 | £1,030 | 2 | [6] |
| width=280 abbr="St H RecsWarrington" | St Helens Recs | width=60 abbr="Number" | No. | width=280 abbr="Wigan" | Wigan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Tommy Dingsdale | 1 | Jim Sullivan | |||
| J. Wilson | 2 | Johnny Ring | |||
| W. Bowen | 3 | Gwynne Davies | |||
| Alf Frodsham | 4 | Tommy Parker | |||
| Albert Bailey | 5 | Roy Kinnear | |||
| W. Greenhall | 6 | Frank Jones | |||
| P. Martin | 7 | Syd Abram | |||
| Oliver Dolan | 8 | Tom Beetham | |||
| George Highcock | 9 | Jack Bennett | |||
| Frank Bowen | 10 | Hal Jones | |||
| T. Smith | 11 | Wilf Hodder | |||
| Jennion | 12 | Len Mason | |||
| Billy Mulvanney | 13 | John Sherrington | |||
| 18 | score | 3 | |||
| 10 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Dingsdale | T | Johnny Ring | |||
| Bailey | T | ||||
| Jennion (2) | T | ||||
| Mulvanney | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Dingsdale (3) | G | ||||
| G | |||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | Bob Robinson (Bradford) | ||||
1 * RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] shows Broughton Rangers as the home team with the match played at City Road but the official Wigan archives give Wigan as the home team playing at Central Park
2 * Station Road was the home ground of Swinton from 1929 to 1992 and at its peak was one of the finest rugby league grounds in the country and it boasted a capacity of 60,000. The actual record attendance was for the Challenge Cup semi-final on 7 April 1951 when 44,621 watched Wigan beat Warrington 3–2