| 1983–84 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Hull F.C. |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Castleford |
| Prevseason Link: | 1982–83 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1982–83 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1984–85 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1984–85 |
| No Of Teams: | 16 |
The 1983–84 Yorkshire Cup was the seventy-sixth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held. This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen. This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Hull F.C. won the trophy by beating Castleford by the score of 13-2 in the final. The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 14,049 and receipts were £33,572. This is the second of three successive Yorkshire Cup final victories by Hull F.C. It is also the second time in the incredible eleven-year period in which Castleford. previously only once winners in 1977, will make eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning on four and ending as runner-up on four occasions.
The Rugby League Yorkshire Cup competition was a knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The actual area was at times increased to encompass other teams from outside the county such as Newcastle, Mansfield, Coventry, and even London (in the form of Acton & Willesden). The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars).
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 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 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Batley | 14-30 | Leeds | Mount Pleasant | 2111 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Bradford Northern | 25-22 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Odsal | 4356 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Castleford | 36-20 | Huddersfield | 2499 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Dewsbury | 8-18 | Keighley | Crown Flatt | 518 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Doncaster | 16-12 | Bramley | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | 357 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Hull F.C. | 24-8 | Featherstone Rovers | Boulevard | 10168 | [2] | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Hunslet | 11-21 | York | Elland Road | 1061 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 4 Sep 1983 | Wakefield Trinity | 18-10 | Halifax | Belle Vue | 2195 |
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 | Wed 14 Sep 1983 | Bradford Northern | 8-12 | Castleford | Odsal | 4684 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 14 Sep 1983 | Keighley | 8-30 | Hull F.C. | Lawkholme Lane | 2503 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 14 Sep 1983 | Wakefield Trinity | 32-14 | Doncaster | Belle Vue | 1587 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 14 Sep 1983 | York | 16-24 | Leeds | Clarence Street | 1296 |
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 | Fri 23 Sep 1983 | Wakefield Trinity | 12-34 | Castleford | Belle Vue | 5592 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 28 Sep 1983 | Leeds | 16-20 | Hull F.C. | Headingley | 10094 |
| 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 15 October 1983 | Hull F.C. | 13-2 | Castleford | Elland Road | 14,049 | £33,572 | 1 2 | [3] [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Hull F.C. | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Castleford |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Gary Kemble | 1 | Darren Coen | |||
| Patrick Solal | 2 | Steve Fenton | |||
| Garry Schofield | 3 | Tony Marchant | |||
| James Leuluai | 4 | Gary Hyde | |||
| Dane O'Hara | 5 | John Kear | |||
| David Topliss (c) | 6 | John Joyner | |||
| Tony Dean | 7 | Bob Beardmore (c) | |||
| Phil Edmonds | 8 | Gary Connell | |||
| Ron Wileman | 9 | Stuart 'Corgi' Horton | |||
| Trevor Skerrett | 10 | Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | |||
| Wayne Proctor | 11 | Andrew Timson | |||
| Lee Crooks | 12 | Neil James | |||
| Mick Crane | 13 | Keith England | |||
| Fred Ah Kuoi | 14 | Ian Orum (for Gary Hyde) | |||
| Steve 'Knocker' Norton | 15 | Alan Hardy | |||
| Arthur Bunting | Coach | Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | |||
| 13 | score | 2 | |||
| 4 | HT | 2 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Dane O'Hara (1) | T | ||||
| Wayne Proctor (1) | T | ||||
| Mick Crane (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| G | Robert "Bob" Beardmore (1) | ||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| Mick Crane (1) | DG | ||||
| Referee | William "Billy" H. Thompson (Huddersfield) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Mick Crane - Hull - | ||||
| sponsored by | |||||
| Competition Sponsor | Philips Video |
1 * The venue is given as Headingley, Leeds by RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[3] and 1990-91[4] and the match programme[5] show this to be Elland Road, Leeds
2 * Elland Road, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds United A.F.C. with a capacity of 37,914 (The record attendance was 57,892 set on 15 March 1967 for a cup match Leeds v Sunderland). The ground was originally established in 1897 by Holbeck RLFC who played there until their demise after the conclusion of the 1903-04 season