| 1976–77 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy | |
| Structure: | Floodlit knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Castleford |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Leigh |
| Prevseason Link: | 1975–76 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy |
| Prevseason Year: | 1975–76 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1977–78 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy |
| Nextseason Year: | 1977–78 |
| No Of Teams: | 22 |
The 1976–77 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was the twelfth occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held.
Castleford won the trophy by beating Leigh by the score of 12-4 (away from home on the opponent's own ground)
The match was played at Hilton Park, Leigh, now in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 5,402, and the receipts were £2.793
Castleford had won the first three BBC2 Floodlit Trophy finals, this brought the wins up to four
This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at twenty-two.
The format remained as used in last season's tournament, i.e. as a knock-out competition from the preliminary round through to the final.
The preliminary round involved twelve clubs, to reduce the numbers taking part in the competition proper to just sixteen.
Involved 6 matches and 12 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=110 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | Sun 29 Aug 1976 | Rochdale Hornets | 2-5 | Widnes | Athletic Grounds | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| P | Wed 8 Sep 1976 | Halifax | 19-25 | Hull F.C. | Thrum Hall | [4] | |||||||||||||||||
| P | Tue 14 Sep 1976 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 19-12 | Dewsbury | Craven Park (1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| P | Tue 14 Sep 1976 | Leigh | 11-10 | Warrington | Hilton Park | [5] | |||||||||||||||||
| P | Tue 14 Sep 1976 | Wakefield Trinity | 20-5 | Bramley | Belle Vue | [6] | |||||||||||||||||
| P | Tue 14 Sep 1976 | Whitehaven | 25-11 | Barrow | Recreation Ground | 1 |
Involved 8 matches and 16 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=110 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 28 Sep 1976 | Huddersfield | 5-2 | Wakefield Trinity | Fartown | [7] | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tue 28 Sep 1976 | Leigh | 22-18 | Salford | Hilton Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tue 5 Oct 1976 | Castleford | 16-8 | Hull Kingston Rovers | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Tue 5 Oct 1976 | Keighley | 2-16 | Hull F.C. | Lawkholme Lane | ||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Tue 5 Oct 1976 | Whitehaven | 3-21 | Oldham | Recreation Ground | ||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Tue 12 Oct 1976 | Widnes | 13-14 | Wigan | Naughton Park | 2 | [8] | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Tue 19 Oct 1976 | Leeds | 22-10 | New Hunslet | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Tue 26 Oct 1976 | Swinton | 15-22 | St. Helens | Station Road | 1,265 | [9] |
Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=110 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 2 Nov 1976 | Hull F.C. | 6-0 | Oldham | Boulevard | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tue 9 Nov 1976 | Leeds | 2-17 | Castleford | Headingley | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Tue 16 Nov 1976 | Huddersfield | 9-7 | St. Helens | Fartown | 1,787 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Tue 23 Nov 1976 | Leigh | 12-5 | Wigan | Hilton Park | 2 |
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=110 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 30 Nov 1976 | Leigh | 19-10 | Huddersfield | Hilton Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tue 7 Dec 1976 | Hull F.C. | 8-15 | Castleford | Boulevard |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=110 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | Tuesday 14 December 1976 | Leigh | 4-12 | Castleford | Hilton Park | 5,402 | 2.793 | 2 3 | [10] [11] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Castleford | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Leigh |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Geoff Wraith | 1 | Mick Hogan | |||
| Steve Fenton | 2 | Alan Prescott | |||
| John Joyner | 3 | Mick Stacey | |||
| Philip Johnson | 4 | John Woods | |||
| Jamie Walsh | 5 | Joe Walsh | |||
| Bruce Burton | 6 | John Taylor | |||
| Gary Stephens | 7 | Cliff Sayer | |||
| Paul Kahn | 8 | Dave Chisnall | |||
| Robert Spurr | 9 | Kevin Ashcroft | |||
| Alan Dickinson | 10 | Geoff Fletcher | |||
| Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | 11 | Dave Macko | |||
| Geoffrey "Sammy" Lloyd | 12 | Paul Grimes | |||
| Steve 'Knocker' Norton | 13 | Dennis Boyd | |||
| Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | Coach | Kevin Ashcroft | |||
| 12 | score | 4 | |||
| 0 | HT | 1 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Jamie Walsh (1) | T | Joe Walsh (1) | |||
| Bruce Burton (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Geoffrey "Sammy" Lloyd (3) | G | ||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | Kevin Ashcroft (1) | ||||
| Referee | J E Jackson (Pudsey) |
This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures
1 * Whitehaven, who joined the competition in season 1973–74, play their first game at home in the competition - they also win their first game in the competition
2 * This match was televised
3 * Hilton Park was the home ground of Leigh from 1947 to 2008. The final capacity was in the region of 11,000, much less than the record attendance of 31,326, set in 1953 for a Challenge Cup match v St. Helens