Batley 6-0 Warrington — 1900/01 Challenge Cup Final

Headingley, Leeds · Attendance: 29,563

Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

1900/01 Challenge Cup Final: Batley 6-0 Warrington, at Headingley, Leeds.

Sourcing caveat: Try scorers, goal-kickers, and referee could not be confirmed from available sources. Lineup research (later pass): the Wikipedia article for this final appears to contain a roster table, but extraction attempts returned only two fragmentary, low-confidence Warrington names ('J. Scholtze', 'J. Cunningham') at positions 11 and 13, with no reliable Batley-side data recovered and no way to independently verify these two names weren't misread. One extraction attempt from this same page also returned a final score of '16-8', which is simply wrong (the confirmed score is 6-0) — a clear signal that this page's table content was being unreliably reconstructed by the fetch/summarization step for this particular article, so nothing from it (including the two Warrington fragments) has been trusted or added here. No lineup for either team could be found.

Scorers

BatleyNo scorers recorded.
WarringtonNo scorers recorded.

Starting line-ups haven't been added for this match yet — scoring, officials and sources above are sourced and correct; full team sheets are planned future work.

Match officials

Referee—

Match report

Batley won their third Challenge Cup in five seasons, beating Warrington 6-0 at Headingley, Leeds on 27 April 1901 in front of 29,563 — a new final attendance record at the time. It capped a dominant early era for Batley, who had now reached and won multiple finals since the competition's 1897 inception. The Rugby League Challenge Cup is rugby league's oldest and most prestigious knockout competition, first contested in 1896/97 under what was then the Northern Union. Its history has been interrupted only by the two World Wars, with four editions lost between 1915/16 and 1918/19 and one more in 1939/40; the finals played either side of those gaps, and during the Second World War itself, were sometimes contested as regional or two-legged fixtures under wartime emergency arrangements rather than the usual single showpiece match. For much of the competition's early history the final rotated around northern club and representative grounds such as Headingley, Fartown, Central Park and the Athletic Ground, Rochdale, before Wembley Stadium became the final's permanent home from 1928/29 onward (with a short break during Wembley's 2000-2007 reconstruction, when finals were staged at Murrayfield, Twickenham and the Millennium Stadium instead). This was the 5th Challenge Cup final played, and, under the name “Batley,” the 3rd Challenge Cup title for the club. The result is recorded in this site's full results table alongside every other Challenge Cup final played since the competition's 1896/97 inception, cross-referenced against the venue and attendance figures gathered for that table. As with all of this site's rugby league match reports, any statistic that couldn't be confirmed from an accessible source — a scorer's name, an exact minute, a goal-kicking split — has been left out entirely rather than estimated, in line with the sourcing standard applied across the Challenge Cup, World Cup, World Club Challenge and domestic finals coverage on this site.

Round by round

Round 1

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Aspatria 4–3 Altrincham——1901-03-02
Barrow 11–0 Brighouse RangersCavendish Park—1901-03-02
Birkenhead 2–0 MillomPark Station—1901-03-02
Bradford 7–2 SwintonPark Avenue—1901-03-02
Broughton Rangers 24–3 TyldesleyWheater's Field—1901-03-02
Dewsbury 9–5 FeatherstoneCrown Flatt—1901-03-02
Goole 2–12 St HelensVictoria Grounds—1901-03-02
Hebden Bridge 6–0 Whitworth——1901-03-02
Heckmondwike 8–0 Seaton RangersBeck Lane—1901-03-02
Huddersfield 6–3 HullFartown—1901-03-02
Hull Kingston Rovers 4–0 SalfordCraven Street—1901-03-02
Hunslet 8–0 Wath Brow HornetsParkside—1901-03-02
Keighley 13–0 KinsleyLawkholme Lane—1901-03-02
Lancaster 3–3 MaryportQuay Meadow—1901-03-02
Leeds 0–19 WarringtonHeadingley—1901-03-02
Leeds Parish Church 11–0 RadcliffeClarence Field—1901-03-02
Leigh 38–0 AlverthorpeMather Lane—1901-03-02
Liversedge 3–2 NormantonHightown—1901-03-02
Manningham 0–0 CastlefordValley Parade—1901-03-02
Morecambe 11–0 PontefractMoss Lane—1901-03-02
Otley 0–19 OldhamWatersheddings—1901-03-02
Outwood Church 2–5 HolbeckCoach Road—1901-03-02
Rochdale Hornets 3–7 BramleyAthletic Ground—1901-03-02
Runcorn 18–0 WiganCanal Street—1901-03-02
Stockport 13–2 ShipleyEdgeley Park—1901-03-02
Todmorden 2–11 Sowerby Bridge——1901-03-02
Wakefield Trinity 28–6 EastmoorBelle Vue—1901-03-02
Whitehaven Recreation 0–3 WidnesRecreation Ground—1901-03-02
Windhill 3–5 Ossett——1901-03-02
York 10–2 HalifaxWigginton Road—1901-03-02

Round 1 Replays

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Barrow 0–2 Brighouse RangersCavendish Park—1901-03-06
Castleford 21–2 ManninghamHunt's Field—1901-03-06
Maryport 3–0 Lancaster——1901-03-06

Round 2

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Aspatria 2–21 Wakefield TrinityBelle Vue—1901-03-09
Batley 6–2 HuddersfieldMount Pleasant—1901-03-09
Bramley 7–10 OldhamHanson Lane—1901-03-09
Castleford 3–2 WorkingtonHunt's Field—1901-03-09
Dewsbury 8–0 MorecambeCrown Flatt—1901-03-09
Hebden Bridge 3–33 Broughton Rangers——1901-03-09
Holbeck 3–6 BradfordElland Road—1901-03-09
Keighley 5–5 YorkLawkholme Lane—1901-03-09
Liversedge 0–5 Leeds Parish ChurchHightown—1901-03-09
Maryport 0–11 Hull Kingston RoversCraven Street—1901-03-09
Ossett 5–5 Birkenhead——1901-03-09
Runcorn 16–4 LeighCanal Street—1901-03-09
St Helens 0–0 StockportKnowsley Road—1901-03-09
Sowerby Bridge 3–6 Brighouse RangersBeech Road—1901-03-09
Warrington 19–2 HeckmondwikeWilderspool—1901-03-09
Widnes 8–0 HunsletLowerhouse—1901-03-09

Round 2 Replays

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Birkenhead 20–2 OssettPark Station—1901-03-13
Stockport 5–11 St HelensEdgeley Park—1901-03-13
York 12–0 KeighleyWigginton Road—1901-03-13

Round 3

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Birkenhead 2–10 WidnesPark Station—1901-03-23
Brighouse Rangers 0–7 Hull Kingston RoversLane Head—1901-03-23
Broughton Rangers 4–11 OldhamWheater's Field—1901-03-23
Dewsbury 3–5 CastlefordCrown Flatt—1901-03-23
Runcorn 21–0 YorkCanal Street—1901-03-23
St Helens 5–7 BatleyKnowsley Road—1901-03-23
Wakefield Trinity 4–5 BradfordBelle Vue—1901-03-23
Warrington 11–0 Leeds Parish ChurchWilderspool—1901-03-23

Round 4

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Batley 5–2 RuncornMount Pleasant—1901-03-30
Hull Kingston Rovers 5–5 CastlefordCraven Street—1901-03-30
Warrington 10–8 BradfordWilderspool—1901-03-30
Widnes 0–8 OldhamLowerhouse—1901-03-30

Round 4 Replay

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Castleford 7–2 Hull Kingston RoversHunt's Field—1901-04-03

Semi-Finals

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Batley 9–2 OldhamFartown160001901-04-13
Warrington 21–5 CastlefordWheater's Field90001901-04-13

Final

ResultVenueAttendanceDate
Batley 6–0 WarringtonHeadingley, Leeds295631901-04-27

Early rounds feature amateur and community clubs alongside professional ones; team names are linked only where this site has a team page for that exact club, matching the same safety-first approach used for the Final's own results table.

Sources

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