1994–95 Regal Trophy Explained

1994–95 Regal Trophy
Structure:	National knockout championship
Season Champs:	Wigan
Season Champ Name:	Winners
Runner-Up Name:	Runner-up
Second Place:	Warrington
Prevseason Link:	1993–94 Regal Trophy
Prevseason Year:	1993–94
Nextseason Link:	1995–96 Regal Trophy
Nextseason Year:	1995–96
No Of Teams:	48

The 1994–95 Regal Trophy was a British rugby league knockout tournament. It was the 24th season that the competition was held, and was the sixth staging of the competition since it was re-named the Regal Trophy.

Wigan won the final, beating Warrington 40-10 at the McAlpine Stadium in Huddersfield. The attendance was 19,636.

Background

This season saw no changes from last season's re-vamping, with no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at forty-eight.

The entrants still included two French clubs and eleven junior clubs

The sixteen First Round winners added to the sixteen clubs given byes, gave a total of entrants into the second round as thirty-two.

Competition and results

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Round 1 - First Round

Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs.

width=10 abbr="No"	Game No	width=110 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	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	Sat 19 Nov 1994	Hunslet	14-18	AS Saint Estève	Elland Road	521
2	Sun 20 Nov 1994	Dewsbury	22-4	XIII Catalan	Crown Flatt	1196
3	Thu 24 Nov 1994	Barrow	138-0	Nottingham City	Craven Park	500
4	Sat 26 Nov 1994	Huddersfield	142-4	Blackpool Gladiators	Alfred McAlpine Stadium	1111
5	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Batley	38-8	Queens	Mount Pleasant	607
6	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Bramley	40-14	Myson (Hull)	McLaren Field	302
7	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Carlisle	25-12	Bradford Dudley Hill	Gifford Park	206
8	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Highfield	12-6	Ovenden (Halifax)	Hoghton Road Stadium	285
9	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Hull Kingston Rovers	48-8	Hensingham	Craven Park (2)	1158
10	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Keighley Cougars	56-0	Chorley Borough (2)	Cougar Park	2370
11	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Leigh	18-12	Leigh Miners' Welfare	Hilton Park	2561
12	Sun 27 Nov 1994	London Crusaders	34-16	Hemel Stags	Barnet Copthall	668
13	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Rochdale Hornets	34-10	Woolston Rovers	Spotland	576
14	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Ryedale-York	26-9	West Hull	Ryedale Stadium	668
15	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Swinton	32-26	Saddleworth Rangers	Gigg Lane	380
16	Sun 27 Nov 1994	Whitehaven	66-0	Thatto Heath	Recreation Ground	686

Round 2 - Second Round

Involved 16 matches and 32 Clubs. The 16 winners of the first round were joined by the 16 First Division clubs in the second round.

width=10 abbr="No"	Game No	width=110 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	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	Sat 3 Dec 1994	Carlisle	16-30	Dewsbury	Gifford Park	287
2	Sat 3 Dec 1994	Castleford	32-26	Halifax		4740
3	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Highfield	2-50	Widnes	Hoghton Road Stadium	1199			^[3]
4	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Huddersfield	11-52	St. Helens	Alfred McAlpine Stadium	5534			^[4]
5	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Hull F.C.	26-16	Barrow	Boulevard	2325			^[5]
6	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Keighley Cougars	28-4	Bramley	Cougar Park	2515
7	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Leeds	54-24	Swinton	Headingley	4867
8	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Oldham	28-0	Hull Kingston Rovers	Watersheddings	2277
9	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Salford	16-14	London Crusaders	The Willows	2088
10	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Sheffield Eagles	46-10	Leigh	Don Valley Stadium	870
11	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Warrington	44-14	Doncaster	Wilderspool	3581			^[6]
12	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Whitehaven	18-12	Featherstone Rovers	Recreation Ground	1248
13	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Wigan	34-12	Rochdale Hornets	Central Park	7493
14	Sun 4 Dec 1994	Workington Town	24-8	Wakefield Trinity	Derwent Park	2349			^[7]
15	Wed 7 Dec 1994	Batley	36-8	Ryedale-York	Mount Pleasant	719
16	Wed 7 Dec 1994	Bradford Northern	32-6	Saint Estève	Odsal	2250

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Round 3 - Third Round

Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs

width=10 abbr="No"	Game No	width=110 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	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	Sat 17 Dec 1994	Salford	24-31	Warrington	The Willows	2189
2	Sun 18 Dec 1994	Batley	22-22	St. Helens	Mount Pleasant	3017
3	Sun 18 Dec 1994	Hull F.C.	14-38	Wigan	Boulevard	6203
4	Sun 18 Dec 1994	Keighley Cougars	26-10	Sheffield Eagles	Cougar Park	3914
5	Sun 18 Dec 1994	Whitehaven	14-34	Bradford Northern	Recreation Ground	1962
6	Sun 18 Dec 1994	Widnes	20-6	Oldham	Naughton Park	3517
7	Sun 18 Dec 1994	Workington Town	14-18	Leeds	Derwent Park	3648
8	Tue 20 Dec 1994	Dewsbury	2-30	Castleford	Crown Flatt	3325

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Round 3 - Third Round Replays

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

width=10 abbr="No"	Game No	width=110 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	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 20 Dec 1994	St. Helens	50-22	Batley	Knowsley Road	4940

Round 4 -Quarter Finals

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

width=10 abbr="No"	Game No	width=110 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	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	Sat 7 Jan 1995	Leeds	14-34	Castleford	Headingley	10650
2	Sun 8 Jan 1995	Keighley Cougars	18-20	Warrington	Cougar Park	5685
3	Sun 8 Jan 1995	Widnes	23-10	Bradford Northern	Naughton Park	4807
4	Sun 8 Jan 1995	Wigan	24-22	St. Helens	Central Park	23278

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Round 5 – Semi-Finals

Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs

width=10 abbr="No"	Game No	width=110 abbr="Date"	Fixture Date	width=150 abbr="Home Team"	Home Team	width=20 abbr="Score"	Score	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	Sat 14 Jan 1995	Widnes	4-30	Warrington	Naughton Park	6181
2	Sun 15 Jan 1995	Wigan	34-6	Castleford	Central Park	13006

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Final

Teams and scorers

width=280 abbr=winner	Wigan	width=60 abbr="Number"	№	width=280 abbr=runner-up	Warrington
	Teams
Henry Paul	1	Jonathan Davies
Jason Robinson	2	Mark Forster
Va'aiga Tuigamala	3	Allan Bateman
Gary Connolly	4	Iestyn Harris
Martin Offiah	5	Rob Mylerhttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Myler&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search
Frano Botica	6	Francis Maloney
Shaun Edwards	7	Greg Mackey
Kelvin Skerrett	8	Gary Teeshttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Tees&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search
Martin Hall	9	Tukere Barlow
Neil Cowie	10	Bruce McGuire
Denis Betts	11	Paul Cullen
Mick Cassidy	12	Paul Darbyshirehttp://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Darbyshire&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search
Phil Clarke	13	Kelly Shelford
Paul Atcheson (for Va'aiga Tuigamala 56-mins)	14	Andy Bennetthttps://web.archive.org/web/20160304090615/http://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Bennett&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search (for Tukere Barlow 66-mins)
Barrie McDermott (for Neil Cowie half-time)	15	Gary Sanderson http://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Sanderson&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search (for Paul Darbyshire 18-mins)
Graeme West	Coach	Reg Bowden http://wolvesplayers.thisiswarrington.co.uk/martini/results.asp?txtName=Bowden&ddlAppearances=0&ddlTries=0&ddlGoals=0&ddlPoints=0&code=%25&Search=Search

Prize money

As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season was as follows:

width=120 abbr="Finish Position"	Finish Position	width=100 abbr="Cash Prize"	Cash Prize	width=50 abbr="No. receiving prize"	No. receiving prize	width=100 abbr="Total Cash"	Total Cash
Winner	£36,000	1	£36,000
Runner-up	£19,000	1	£19,000
Semi-finalist	£10,250	2	£20,500
Quarter-finalist	£6,500	4	£26,000
Third Round losers	£4,200	8	£33,600
Second Round losers	£2,700	16	£43,200
First Round (RFL clubs and French clubs)	£2,700	21	£56,700
First Round (amateur clubs)	£1,000	11	£11,000
Total prize money			£246,000
Development fund			£164,000
Grand Total			£410,000

The road to success

This tree excludes the First Round fixtures

Sources

Book: Fletcher . Raymond . Howes . David . Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook 1995-96 . 1995 . Headline Publishing Group . London . 978-0-7472-7817-7.

External links

Web site: Regal Trophy 1994/95 - Results . Rugby League Project.

Notes and References

Web site: Rugby League Project.
Web site: Wigan "Cherry and White" archived results.
Web site: Widnes Vikings - History - Season In Review - 1896-97.
Web site: Saints Heritage Society - History - Season 1896-97.
Web site: HULL&PROUD - Stats - Fixtures & Results 1896/1897.
Web site: Warrington Wolves - Results Archive - 1897 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100706043029/http://www.warringtonwolves.org/results-archive?y=1897 . 2010-07-06 .
Web site: I'm Wakefield 'til I die....
Web site: Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 2 archived results.
Web site: Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 3 archived results.
Web site: Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player Rd 4 archived results.
Web site: Wigan "Cherry and White" J Player S-F archived results.