| 1988–89 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Leeds |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Castleford |
| Prevseason Link: | 1987–88 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1987–88 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1989–90 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1989–90 |
| No Of Teams: | 18 |
The 1988–89 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-first occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup rugby league competition was held.
Leeds won the trophy by beating the previous season's runner-up, Castleford, with a score of 33-12.
The match was played at Elland Road, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 22,968 and receipts were £83,591.
This was the sixth time in an eleven-year period in which Castleford, previously only winners once (in 1977), made eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning four and finishing runners-up on the other four occasions. It was also the second season in succession that Castleford appeared, and lost, in the final within that eleven-year period.
In the 1988–89 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 eighteen.
As a result, a preliminary round was required to reduce the number of clubs entering the first round to sixteen.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | Wed 31 Aug 1988 | Bramley | 16-38 | Leeds | McLaren Field | 4,258 | |||||||||||||||||
| P2 | Wed 31 Aug 1988 | Sheffield Eagles | 8-28 | Wakefield Trinity | Owlerton Stadium | 1,356 |
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 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Castleford | 94-12 | Huddersfield | 3,144 | 1 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Featherstone Rovers | 38-8 | Doncaster | Post Office Road | 2,682 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Halifax | 36-14 | Batley | Thrum Hall | 5,370 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Hull F.C. | 53-0 | Hunslet | Boulevard | 3,153 | [2] | ||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Keighley | 22-28 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Lawkholme Lane | 1,596 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Leeds | 24-21 | Bradford Northern | Headingley | 10,992 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | Wakefield Trinity | 46-20 | Dewsbury | Belle Vue | 3,733 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 18 Sep 1988 | York | 25-4 | Mansfield Marksman | Clarence Street | 1,370 |
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 27 Sep 1988 | Hull F.C. | 18-0 | Featherstone Rovers | Boulevard | 4,010 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Castleford | 40-14 | York | 3,155 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Halifax | 24-2 | Hull Kingston Rovers | Thrum Hall | 6,296 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 28 Sep 1988 | Leeds | 15-10 | Wakefield Trinity | Headingley | 11,150 |
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 5 Oct 1988 | Halifax | 8-12 | Castleford | Thrum Hall | 8,432 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 5 Oct 1988 | Leeds | 12-8 | Hull F.C. | Headingley | 10,384 |
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 16 October 1988 | Leeds | 33-12 | Castleford | Elland Road | 22,968 | £83.591 | 3 4 | [3] [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Leeds | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Castleford |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Gary Spencer | 1 | Gary Belcher | |||
| Andrew Ettingshausen | 2 | David Plange | |||
| Garry Schofield | 3 | Tony Marchant | |||
| David Stephenson | 4 | Giles Boothroyd | |||
| Carl Gibson | 5 | Chris Chapman | |||
| Cliff Lyons | 6 | Grant Anderson | |||
| Ray Ashton | 7 | Robert "Bob" Beardmore | |||
| Lee Crooks | 8 | Kevin Ward | |||
| Colin Maskill | 9 | Kevin Beardmore | |||
| Hugh Waddell | 10 | Keith England | |||
| Roy Powell | 11 | Martin Ketteridge | |||
| Mark Brooke-Cowden | 12 | Ron Gibbs | |||
| David Heron | 13 | John Joyner | |||
| Paul Medley (for Mark Brooke-Cowden) | 14 | David Roockley (for Chris Chapman) | |||
| Sam Backo (for Hugh Waddell) | 15 | Dean Sampson (for David Roockley) | |||
| Malcolm "Mal" Reilly | Coach | Darryl van der Velde | |||
| 33 | score | 12 | |||
| 15 | HT | 12 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Garry Schofield (2) | T | Giles Boothroyd (1) | |||
| Carl Gibson (2) | T | John Joyner (1) | |||
| Paul Medley (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| David Stephenson (6) | G | Martin Ketteridge (2) | |||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| Garry Schofield (1) | DG | ||||
| Referee | Robin Whitfield (Widnes) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Cliff Lyons - Leeds - | ||||
| sponsored by | |||||
| Competition Sponsor | John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster |
The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results
1 * The first Yorkshire Cup match played by the newly renamed Huddersfield who dropped the "Barracudas"'s suffix
2 * The record score (and highest winning margin) at the time for a Yorkshire Cup match, beating the previous record win of 79-5 (1948)
3 * The receipts are given as £76,658 by the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991-92[3] and 1990-91[4] but the details given in a section of the Huddersfield v Ryedale-York match programme[6] [7] for the preliminary round on Sunday 23 August 1992 (and all verified by The Rugby League Record Keepers Club), show the receipts as £83,591