UK Elite Teams By Season : 1982-83

Oldham, Carlisle, Workington and Halifax came up from the second division for the 82-83 season. Fulham, Wakefield, York and Whitehaven had gone down.

The League. Hull FC came top of the first division with 47 points from town rivals Hull KR (43), with Wigan (43) third. Then came St Helens (39), Widnes and leeds (38), Castleford (37) and Oldham (32). They were the teams to play the Premiership Finals.

Barrow, Workington, Halifax and Carlisle were the teams to be relegated, three of the four that came up.

The Challenge Cup. The third round quarter finals went: St Helens 10-11 Featherstone, Hunslet 8-13 Castleford, Warrington 4-10 Hull FC, Workington 0-17 Bradford.

The last four were all Yorkshire sides: Bradford 6-11 Featherstone and Castleford 7-14 Hull FC. The final at Wembley Stadium, London hosted 85,000. There Featherstone won 14-12 over Hull FC in an upset result (see video below).

The League Cup. In the quarter finals, the scores were Salford 4-5 Wigan, Barrow 8-13 Leeds, Warrington 11-10 Hull KR, Widnes 16-10 Bradford. The semi finals had Leeds winning 8-2 at the expense of Widnes and Wigan taking the game narrowly 15-14 over Warrington.

The final was at Elland Rd, Leeds with close to 20,000 in attendance. Wigan won 15-4 against Leeds.

Lancashire Cup: For the last four, it went St Helens 7-7 and 9-5 against Carlisle. Then Warrington defeated Fulham 17-8. I thought they were a London outfit? Anyway, Warrington outplayed Saints in taking the trophy with a 16-0 victory at Central park, Wigan in front of nearly 12,000 fans.

Yorkshire Cup: The semi finals had Featherstone get beaten by Bradford 0-11 and Keighley suffered the same fate against Hull FC 3-23. Just under 12,000 also went to the final at Elland Rd where Hull prevailed over Bradford 18-7.

The Premiership Finals. The first round results were: Hull FC 24-21 Oldham, Hull KR 35-14 Castleford, St Helens 7-11 Widnes, Wigan 9-12 Leeds. In the semi finals Hull KR lost out to Widnes 10-21 while Hull FC defeated Leeds 19-5.

The final was played at headingley Stadium, Leeds where Widnes took the title with a 22-10 victory over Hull FC in front of 18,000.

Summary: I've allocated points for results to see how the teams fared. Hull FC were well ahead, courtesy of the league title, Yorkshire Cup win, plus a finalist berth in both Challenge Cup and League Cup. That gave then 64 points. Widnes winning the Premiership final helped them accrue 20 points. Wigan won the league Cup and 38 points. Further down the list, Warrington took the Lancashire Cup.

	Rk	Team	Lge	Fnl	CC	LC	Y/L	Total
	1	Hull FC	20	16	16		12	64
	2	Widnes	12	20		8		40
	3	Wigan	16	6		16		38
	4	Leeds	11	12		12		35
	5	Hull KR	18	12		4		34
	5	St Helens	14	6	6		8	34
	7	Warrington	6		6	8	12	32
	7	Bradford	8		12	4	8	32
	9	Featherstone	5		20		4	29
	10	Castleford	10	6	12			28
	11	Oldham	9	6				15
	11	Workington	3		6			9
	13	Barrow	4			4		8
	14	Leigh	7					7
	15	Hunslet			6			6
	15	Carlisle	1				4	5
	17	Salford				4		4
	17	London					4	4
	17	Keighley					4	4
	20	Halifax	2					2
		Total	146	84	84	60	56	430

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