| 1989–90 Lancashire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Warrington |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Oldham |
| Prevseason Link: | 1988 Lancashire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1988–89 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1990 Lancashire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1990–91 |
| No Of Teams: | 17 |
The 1989–90 Lancashire Cup was the 77th occasion on which the Lancashire Cup competition had been held. Warrington won the trophy by beating Oldham by the score of 24-16 in the final. The match was played at Knowsley Road, Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 9.990 and receipts were £41,804.
This season, Chorley Borough (see note 1) joined the league, bringing the total number of entrants up to 17.
This necessitated the need for a preliminary round (consisting of just 1 game). The first round (proper) then involved 16 clubs, thus removing the need of any "blank" or "dummy" fixtures or any byes.
Involved 1 match and 2 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 30 Aug 1989 | Chorley Borough (2) | 12-6 | Trafford Borough | Victory Park | 628 | 1 2 |
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 | Fri 15 Sep 1989 | Chorley Borough (2) | 4-50 | Wigan | Hilton Park | 5026 | 3 | [1] | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Barrow | 2-46 | Oldham | Craven Park | 2253 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Carlisle | 6-46 | Widnes | Brunton Park | 4329 | 4 | [2] | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Leigh | 26-8 | Whitehaven | Hilton Park | 2039 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | St. Helens | 78-10 | Runcorn Highfield | Knowsley Road | 5498 | 5 | [3] | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Salford | 52-12 | Rochdale Hornets | The Willows | 3094 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Warrington | 16-6 | Swinton | Wilderspool | 4055 | [4] | ||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Workington Town | 24-30 | Fulham | Derwent Park | 702 |
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 27 Sep 1989 | Fulham | 4-34 | Wigan | Claremont Road | 3204 | 6 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Leigh | 12-34 | Widnes | Hilton Park | 6748 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | St. Helens | 6-36 | Oldham | Knowsley Road | 7834 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Salford | 4-27 | Warrington | The Willows | 4994 |
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 | Thu 05 Oct 1989 | Oldham | 19-18 | Wigan | Watersheddings | 8603 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Tue 10 Oct 1989 | Warrington | 28-6 | Widnes | Wilderspool | 10240 |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Warrington | width=60 abbr="Number" | No. | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Oldham |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teams | |||||
| David Lyon | 1 | Duncan Platt | |||
| Des Drummond | 2 | Steve Robinson | |||
| Joe Ropati | 3 | Gary Hyde | |||
| Tony Thorniley | 4 | Richard Irving | |||
| Mark Forster | 5 | Paul Lord | |||
| Robert Turner | 6 | Brett Clark | |||
| Greg Mackey | 7 | Mike Ford | |||
| Tony Burke | 8 | Leo Casey | |||
| Mark Roskell | 9 | Andy Ruane | |||
| Steve Molloy | 10 | John Fieldhouse | |||
| Bob Jackson | 11 | Shaun Allen | |||
| Gary Sanderson | 12 | Keith Newton | |||
| Mike Gregory (c) | 13 | John Cogger (c) | |||
| Subs | |||||
| Paul Darbyshire (for David Lyon; 34 mins) | 14 | Richard Russell (for Duncan Platt; 34 mins) | |||
| Ronnie Duane (for Gary Sanderson; 65 mins) | 15 | John Fairbank (for Leo Casey; 58 mins) | |||
| Coach | Tony Barrow |
1 * Chorley Borough (2) were elected to the league during the close season after the previous team of the same name moved out and to Altrincham as Trafford Borough. This was the first Lancashire Cup match played by the newly formed and elected club and also to be played at the new venue, home of Chorley F.C.
2 * The first Lancashire Cup match played by the reformed and newly named Trafford Borough The half time score was 2-6 in favour of Trafford Borough
3 * Match played at Leigh's Hilton Park
4 * Match played at Carlisle United's Brunton Park
5 * This was the 25th successive defeat for Runcorn Highfield
6 * The venue is given by RUGBYLEAGUEproject as Chiswick Poly Sports Grd - Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1990–91 gives the venue as Claremont Road stadium which, at that date, was the home ground of Hendon F.C.
7 * The first Lancashire Cup match to be played on this ground, one of many used by Fulham during the nomadic period between 1985 and 1993
8 * Knowsley Road was the home ground of St. Helens from 1890 to 2010. The final capacity was in the region of 18,000, although the actual record attendance was 35,695, set on 26 December 1949, for a league game between St Helens and Wigan