Sourcing caveat: Individual try scorers could not be confirmed for either team; only goal-kicker names and totals were available. Third-pass note (30 Aug 2026): both team lineups remain entirely missing. Wikiwand — which successfully returned lineups for the neighbouring 1959/60, 1961/62 and 1963/64 finals in this file — returned a 403 on every attempt this session (tried at intervals up to nearly 2 minutes apart), so it could not be used for this season. Wikipedia's own pages are blocked in this environment outright. This session's web-search quota was also already exhausted before this pass began. No lineup added; nothing was fabricated. Fourth-pass note (30 Aug 2026): Wikiwand again failed for this season, but individual Wikipedia biographies confirmed several positions. For Wigan: Fred Griffiths (fullback, 6 conversions — matches team1_goals above exactly), Brian McTigue (left-second-row, try), Mick Sullivan (wing, try), and Eric Ashton (centre and captain, per his own page's Challenge Cup Final list). For Hull FC: Tommy Harris (hooker — consistent with his 1959/60 Hull FC hooker role already confirmed elsewhere in this file, and with the Lance Todd Trophy he'd go on to win the following season) and Johnny Whiteley (captain, position not explicitly stated on his page beyond 'became Hull's captain' in 1957, though he played loose forward in the following season's final already confirmed in this file). Roy Francis's own Wikipedia page also directly confirms he coached Hull FC in this final, matching his already-confirmed 1959/60 Hull FC coaching role in this file, so a team2_coach field is added. That leaves four of Wigan's thirteen positions (fullback, one wing, centre, second-row) and two of Hull's (hooker, and an unplaced captain) confirmed but the rest unknown, still short of a sourced full XIII for either side, so no team1_lineup or team2_lineup field is added, per this file's no-guessing policy. Fifth-pass note (31 Aug 2026): Wikipedia's article page is reachable but its rendered final lineup table (fetched directly, and via a full verbatim page dump) again returns only position abbreviations with no player names, and every Wikipedia mirror and action=raw/api.php route remains blocked. Two further biography checks resolved one new Hull FC position: Arthur Keegan's own Wikipedia page states 'Keegan played at fullback, and scored 1-conversion, and 4-penalty goals in Hull F.C.'s 13-30 defeat by Wigan in the 1958-59 Challenge Cup Final' (his goal tally matching team2_goals above exactly). Johnny Whiteley's own page was re-checked and confirms only that he 'played in Hull's first appearance at Wembley in the 1958-59 Challenge Cup Final' and was Hull's captain from 1957 onward, without stating his position in this specific match, so — per this file's no-guessing policy — he is not added to team2_lineup by inferring the following season's loose-forward slot backward onto an unconfirmed match; his captaincy remains noted here in prose only. With this, team1_lineup and team2_lineup are added below with every name and position independently confirmed for this specific final; per the 1973/74 entry's precedent, positions fixed unambiguously by standard numbering (1 fullback, 9 hooker) get their real shirt number, while Sullivan's wing side, Ashton's centre side, and McTigue's specific second-row shirt (11 vs 12) remain UNCONFIRMED since no source found gives a left/right-to-number mapping for this era. Both lineups remain genuinely partial: Wigan's stand-off, scrum-half, hooker, both props, the second second-row shirt, one wing, and loose forward (nine of thirteen) are unfound, and Hull's wings, centres, stand-off, scrum-half, props, and the unplaced captain/loose-forward slot (eleven of thirteen) remain completely unconfirmed after five passes.
Match report
Wigan overwhelmed Hull FC 30-13 at Wembley in front of a near-80,000 crowd, with goal-kickers Griffiths (Wigan, 6 goals) and Keegan (Hull, 5 goals) both among the leading scorers of the day. Second-row forward Brian McTigue was named Lance Todd Trophy winner for his display in the pack. The 58th staging of the competition, this was a comfortable Wigan victory that underlined the club's strength through the late 1950s. 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). Since 1946/47, the competition's individual award, the Lance Todd Trophy, has been presented to the final's outstanding player, voted for by a panel of media representatives at the final whistle — on several notable occasions the trophy has gone to a player on the losing side, an unusual honour that reflects the award's focus on individual performance rather than simply reflecting the final scoreline. This was the 58th Challenge Cup final played, and, under the name “Wigan,” the 6th 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.