UK Elite Teams By Season : 1985-86

For this year Swinton, Salford, York and Dewsbury came up, replacing Barrow, Leigh, Hunslet and Workington. The 16 teams then went into action.

The League. In a tight ending, Halifax were top with 44 points from Wigan (43), St Helens (42), Warrington and Widnes (41 each). York, Swinton and Dewsbury were relegated.

The Challenge Cup. In the quarter finals the results were: Hull KR 25-10 Leigh, Oldham 6-1 Bradford, Widnes 10-10 and 0-5 Leeds, Wigan 2-10 Castleford. The semi finals had Castleford defeating Oldham 18-7 while the other game was Leeds 24-24 and 0-17 Hull KR.

The final at Wembley Stadium, London attracted 82,000 fans. In the match itself, Cas' narrowly took the cup 15-14 over Hull KR.

The League Cup. At the quarter final point, the results were Warrington 22-26 Wigan, Hull KR 24-16 York, Widnes 31-35 Leigh, St Helens 57-14 Hull FC. The semi finals were Wigan 36-8 Leigh and Hull KR 22-4 St Helens. 17,600 came along to Elland Rd, Leeds for the final, the score being Wigan 11-8 Hull KR.

Lancashire Cup: The semi finals went this way: Warrington 11-4 Widnes and Wigan 30-2 St Helens. The final had 19,000 spectators at Knowsley Rd, St Helens were Wigan ran away with the match 34-8 against Warrington.

Yorkshire Cup: The semi finals had Hull KR defeating Bradford 11-5 and Leeds going down to Castleford 10-14. The final at Headingley, Leeds saw Hull KR take the trophy with a 22-18 victory over Cas' in front of nearly 13,000 attendees.

The Premiership Finals. The top eight from the league came together to sort out the premiership. The first round went as follows: Halifax 32-20, Saints 22-38 Leeds, Warrington 10-8 Widnes and Wigan 47-0 Hull KR. The semis: Halifax 16-13 Leeds and Wigan 12-23 Warrington.

The Elland Rd premiership final was at Elland Rd where Warrington were too strong for Halifax, winning 38-11.

Summary: By adding my points to the season, Wigan took the winners podium with a  second in the league, plus taking the League Cup and Lancashire Cup. This gave them 64 points, eight ahead of Hull KR won the Yorkshire Cup and were runners up in the Challenge Cup and league Cup.

Warrington won the Premiership Final to come third with 46 points, Leeds won nothing but secured 4th spot with 39 points. Amazinglu, Halifax won the league and made the Challenge Cup final but crashed everywhere else to finish 5th with 36 points.

	Rk	Team	Lge	Fnl	CC	LC	Y/L	Total
	1	Wigan	18	12	6	16	12	64
	2	Hull KR	10	6	16	12	12	56
	3	Warrington	14	20		4	8	46
	4	Leeds	11	12	12		4	39
	5	Halifax	20	16				36
	6	St Helens	16	6		8	4	34
	6	Castleford	6		20		8	34
	8	Widnes	12	6	6	4	4	32
	9	Oldham	8		12			20
	10	Hull FC	9	6		4		19
	11	Bradford	5		6		4	15
	12	Leigh			6	8		14
	13	Salford	7					7
	13	York	3			4		7
	15	Featherstone	4					4
	16	Swinton	2					2
	17	Dewsbury	1					1
		Total	146	84	84	60	56	430

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