Huddersfield 21-10 Wigan — 1919/20 Challenge Cup Final

Data last verified: 11 August 2026.

1919/20 Challenge Cup Final: Huddersfield 21-10 Wigan, at Headingley, Leeds.

Sourcing caveat: No try scorers, goal kickers, or referee could be confirmed for this final from the sources checked. A second-pass search (Aug 2026) found one confirmed Huddersfield squad member, Johnny Rogers, via his own Wikipedia biography, which states he played in this final but not which of his three regular positions (wing, stand-off, or scrum-half) he occupied that day, so all three are given together rather than guessing one; the rest of both sides remain unconfirmed despite further attempts (individual Wigan-side player bios and Huddersfield 'Team of All Talents' club-heritage material were checked but named no one specifically for this match). A fourth-pass search (Aug 2026, this pass) confirmed a second Huddersfield player, loose forward Douglas Clark, via his own Wikipedia biography, which explicitly states he 'played in the 21-10 victory over Wigan in the 1920 Challenge Cup Final.' Individual biographies for several other named members of Huddersfield's 'Team of All Talents' (Harold Wagstaff, Ben Gronow, Stanley Moorhouse, Albert Rosenfeld) were checked but none confirmed a specific appearance in this match — the club's own heritage-trust site notes Wagstaff and others were already en route to Australia for a tour around this point in the season, so their availability for this particular final is uncertain rather than confirmed either way. Wigan's side remains entirely unconfirmed despite repeated attempts. No squad numbers are given since numbered shirts were not yet standard practice in this period.

Scorers

Huddersfield	No scorers recorded.
Wigan	No scorers recorded.

Teams

Huddersfield			Wigan

Match officials

Referee	—

Match report

Huddersfield beat Wigan 21-10 at Headingley in the first Challenge Cup final played after the competition resumed following its suspension during the First World War. It was Huddersfield's third final win in their third final appearance, continuing the club's dominance of the code either side of the war (they were the “Team of All Talents” era side). Wigan's defeat continued a lean spell in the competition for a club that would go on to become one of the tournament's most successful sides in later decades. 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 20th Challenge Cup final played, and, under the name “Huddersfield,” 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

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Round 1

Result	Venue	Attendance	Date
Barrow 17–4 Hull Kingston Rovers	Little Park	—	1920-02-21
Batley 19–0 Salford	Mount Pleasant	—	1920-02-21
Bradford Northern 2–2 Oldham	Birch Lane	—	1920-02-21
Bramley 13–0 Wigan Highfield	Barley Mow	—	1920-02-21
Brookland Rovers 0–55 Halifax	Thrum Hall	—	1920-02-21
Featherstone Rovers 2–17 Broughton Rangers	Post Office Road	—	1920-02-21
Huddersfield 19–0 Swinton	Fartown	—	1920-02-21
Hull 75–2 BOCM	The Boulevard	—	1920-02-21
Hunslet 0–9 St Helens Recs	Parkside	—	1920-02-21
Keighley 5–7 York	Lawkholme Lane	—	1920-02-21
Millom 5–44 Leeds	Headingley	—	1920-02-21
Rochdale Hornets 10–7 Dewsbury	Athletic Ground	—	1920-02-21
St Helens 2–2 Wakefield Trinity	Knowsley Road	—	1920-02-21
Warrington 9–0 Askham	Wilderspool	—	1920-02-21
Widnes 3–0 Leigh	Lowerhouse Lane	—	1920-02-21
Wigan 64–3 Healey St Adults	Central Park	—	1920-02-21
Oldham 28–3 Bradford Northern	Watersheddings	—	1920-02-23
Wakefield Trinity 2–2 St Helens	Belle Vue	—	1920-02-24
Wakefield Trinity 12–3 St Helens	Headingley	—	1920-02-26

Round 2

Result	Venue	Attendance	Date
Bramley 5–3 Broughton Rangers	Barley Mow	—	1920-02-28
Hull 29–10 Batley	The Boulevard	—	1920-02-28
Oldham 9–0 Warrington	Watersheddings	—	1920-02-28
Rochdale Hornets 0–5 Leeds	Athletic Ground	—	1920-02-28
St Helens Recs 9–2 Barrow	City Road	—	1920-02-28
Wakefield Trinity 2–3 Huddersfield	Belle Vue	—	1920-02-28
Widnes 4–0 Halifax	Lowerhouse Lane	—	1920-02-28
Wigan 35–5 York	Central Park	—	1920-02-28

Round 3

Result	Venue	Attendance	Date
Bramley 0–10 Wigan	Barley Mow	—	1920-03-13
Huddersfield 2–2 St Helens Recs	Fartown	—	1920-03-13
Oldham 9–0 Leeds	Watersheddings	—	1920-03-13
Widnes 0–3 Hull	Lowerhouse Lane	—	1920-03-13
St Helens Recs 6–8 Huddersfield	City Road	—	1920-03-17

Semi Final

Result	Venue	Attendance	Date
Huddersfield 17–0 Oldham	Thrum Hall, Halifax	20000	1920-03-27
Wigan 12–5 Hull	The Willows, Weaste, Salford	22000	1920-03-27

Final

Result	Venue	Attendance	Date
Huddersfield 21–10 Wigan	Headingley, Leeds	14000	1920-04-10

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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