1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season | |
League: | Northern Rugby Football League |
Season Champs: | St. Helens |
Season Champ Name: | Champions |
League Leaders: | Leeds |
League Leaders Name: | League Leaders |
Top Scorer: | Colin Tyrer 385 |
Top Try Scorer: | John Atkinson 38 |
Prevseason Link: | 1968–69 Northern Rugby Football League season |
Prevseason Year: | 1968–69 |
Nextseason Link: | 1970–71 Northern Rugby Football League season |
Nextseason Year: | 1970–71 |
The 1969–70 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 75th season of rugby league football in Britain.
Leeds had ended the regular season as league leaders for the fourth successive season. St. Helens won their fifth Rugby Football League Championship when they beat Leeds 24-12 in the final. Frank Myler was awarded the Harry Sunderland Trophy as man-of-the-match.
The Challenge Cup winners were Castleford who beat Wigan 7-2 in the final.
Wigan won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. This was the last season in which the Lancashire League and Yorkshire League titles were awarded, as the competitions were abolished following a vote on fixture reform during the season.[1]
width=20 abbr="Position" | width=175 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | |
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1 | Leeds | 34 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 60 | |||||||
2 | Castleford | 34 | 25 | 1 | 8 | 51 | |||||||
3 | St. Helens | 34 | 23 | 1 | 10 | 47 | |||||||
4 | Wigan | 34 | 23 | 0 | 11 | 46 | |||||||
5 | Hull Kingston Rovers | 34 | 22 | 2 | 10 | 46 | |||||||
6 | Salford | 34 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 45 | |||||||
7 | Leigh | 34 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 45 | |||||||
8 | Featherstone Rovers | 34 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 45 | |||||||
9 | Swinton | 34 | 20 | 4 | 10 | 44 | |||||||
10 | Widnes | 34 | 21 | 2 | 11 | 44 | |||||||
11 | Hull | 34 | 20 | 2 | 12 | 42 | |||||||
12 | Bradford Northern | 34 | 19 | 0 | 15 | 38 | |||||||
13 | Whitehaven | 34 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 38 | |||||||
14 | Warrington | 34 | 17 | 2 | 15 | 36 | |||||||
15 | Huddersfield | 34 | 17 | 1 | 16 | 35 | |||||||
16 | Halifax | 34 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 32 | |||||||
17 | Batley | 34 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 31 | |||||||
18 | Bramley | 34 | 14 | 1 | 19 | 29 | |||||||
19 | Barrow | 34 | 14 | 1 | 19 | 29 | |||||||
20 | Rochdale Hornets | 34 | 13 | 3 | 18 | 29 | |||||||
21 | Wakefield Trinity | 34 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 28 | |||||||
22 | Dewsbury | 34 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 27 | |||||||
23 | Hunslet | 34 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 27 | |||||||
24 | Workington Town | 34 | 12 | 2 | 20 | 26 | |||||||
25 | Keighley | 34 | 13 | 0 | 21 | 26 | |||||||
26 | York | 34 | 11 | 1 | 22 | 23 | |||||||
27 | Doncaster | 34 | 7 | 0 | 27 | 14 | |||||||
28 | Huyton | 34 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 13 | |||||||
29 | Oldham | 34 | 6 | 0 | 28 | 12 | |||||||
30 | Blackpool Borough | 34 | 6 | 0 | 28 | 12 | |||||||
Champions | Play-offs |
See main article: 1969–70 Challenge Cup. Castleford beat Wigan 7-2 in the final played at Wembley in front of a crowd of 95,255.
This was Castleford’s third Cup Final win in three Final appearances and their second in successive years. It was also the lowest winning score in a Challenge Cup Final at Wembley.[2]
See main article: 1969–70 Lancashire Cup.
See main article: 1969–70 Yorkshire Cup.
Swinton beat Leigh 11–2 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Hull F.C. beat Featherstone Rovers 12–9 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.
See main article: 1969–70 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy.
The BBC2 Floodlit Trophy winners were Leigh who beat Wigan 11-6 in the final.[3]