| 1989–90 Yorkshire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Bradford Northern |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Featherstone Rovers |
| Prevseason Link: | 1988–89 Yorkshire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1988–89 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1990–91 Yorkshire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1990–91 |
| No Of Teams: | 18 |
The 1989–90 Yorkshire Cup was the eighty-second occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition was held. Bradford Northern won the trophy for the second time in three years, this time by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 20-14
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 12,607 and receipts were £50,775
For the first time, both semi-final matches resulted in draws, both requiring a replay.
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 eighteen.
This in turn resulted in the necessity to continue with a preliminary round 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 | Sun 27 Aug 1989 | Dewsbury | 18-17 | Wakefield Trinity | Crown Flatt | 2246 | |||||||||||||||||
| P2 | Sun 27 Aug 1989 | Nottingham City | 6-56 | Hull F.C. | Harvey Hadden Stadium | 902 | [3] |
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 17 Sep 1989 | Batley | 5-36 | Sheffield Eagles | Mount Pleasant | 1299 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Bramley | 12-54 | Hull Kingston Rovers | McLaren Field | 1545 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Dewsbury | 7-22 | Halifax | Crown Flatt | 3604 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Doncaster | 23-4 | Huddersfield | Bentley Road Stadium/Tattersfield | 2341 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Featherstone Rovers | 86-18 | Keighley | Post Office Road | 2209 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Hull F.C. | 20-10 | Ryedale-York | Boulevard | 4317 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Hunslet | 0-44 | Castleford | Elland Road | 3180 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Sun 17 Sep 1989 | Leeds | 8-15 | Bradford Northern | Headingley | 13214 |
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 | Bradford Northern | 19-6 | Sheffield Eagles | Odsal | 4210 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Castleford | 28-12 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 6250 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Featherstone Rovers | 37-22 | Doncaster | Post Office Road | 3526 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 27 Sep 1989 | Halifax | 13-2 | Hull F.C. | Thrum Hall | 8087 |
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 5 Oct 1989 | Halifax | 16-16 | Bradford Northern | Thrum Hall | 9454 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Thu 12 Oct 1989 | Featherstone Rovers | 18-18 | Castleford | Post Office Road | 6227 |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 | Sun 15 Oct 1989 | Bradford Northern | 26-4 | Halifax | Odsal | 12748 | |||||||||||||||||
| R2 | Sun 22 Oct 1989 | Castleford | 26-28 | Featherstone Rovers | 9065 |
| 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 5 November 1989 | Bradford Northern | 20-14 | Featherstone Rovers | Headingley | 12,607 | £50,775 | 4 | [4] [5] |
| width=280 abbr=winner | Bradford Northern | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr=runner-up | Featherstone Rovers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Ian Wilkinson | 1 | Chris Bibb | |||
| Gerry Cordle | 2 | Barry Drummond | |||
| Steve McGowan | 3 | Iva Ropati | |||
| Roger Simpson | 4 | Paul Newlove | |||
| Richard Francis | 5 | Alan Banks | |||
| Ivan Henjak | 6 | Ian Smales | |||
| Paul Harkin | 7 | Deryck Fox (c) | |||
| Kelvin Skerrett | 8 | Jeff Grayshon | |||
| Glenn Barraclough | 9 | Trevor Clark | |||
| Jon Hamer | 10 | Glenn Bell | |||
| David Hobbs (c) | 11 | Gary Price | |||
| Karl Fairbank | 12 | Glen Booth | |||
| John Pendlebury | 13 | Peter Smith | |||
| Keith Mumby (for Ivan Henjak 13m) | 14 | Alan Dakin (for Glenn Bell 51m) | |||
| Paul Medley (for Jon Hamer 9m) | 15 | Andy Fisher (for Glen Booth 51m) | |||
| Ron Willey | Coach | Peter Fox | |||
| 20 | score | 14 | |||
| 12 | HT | 10 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Gerry Cordle (2) | T | Iva Ropati (1) | |||
| Paul Harkin (2) | T | Peter Smith (1) | |||
| Goals | |||||
| David Hobbs (2) | G | Deryck Fox (3) | |||
| Referee | Robin Whitfield (Widnes) | ||||
| White Rose Trophy for Man of the match | Paul Harkin - Bradford Northern - | ||||
| sponsored by | |||||
| Competition Sponsor | John Smith's Brewery Tadcaster |
Scoring - Try = four points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point
The following chart excludes any preliminary round fixtures/results
1 * The second highest score in a Yorkshire Cup match to date
2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.
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)