Which Yorkshire Rugby League club were the first team to retain the Challenge Cup/
2019 Yorkshire Cup founding clubs of the 'new' Yorkshire Cup were; Batley, Bradford, Dewsbury, Featherstone, Halifax, Huslet, York and amateur club Hunslet Club Parkside. 2019 Yorkshire Cup The 2019 Yorkshire Cup competition was a pre season knock-out competition between (mainly professional) rugby league clubs from the county of Yorkshire. The original Yorkshire Cup was scrapped in 1993 due to fixture congestion after being played every year since 1905. In the late 2000s there was talking of it returning in the form a a nines tournament although no plans every came to fruition. In late 2018, a group of lower league Yorkshire based clubs
Yorkshire Cup (rugby union) Yorkshire Cup (rugby union) The Yorkshire Cup is an English Rugby Football Union competition founded in 1878. It is organised by the Yorkshire Rugby Football Union and is open to all eligible clubs in the Yorkshire area. It was initially known as the Yorkshire Challenge Cup. The Yorkshire Senior Cup is currently the premier county cup competition for club sides based in Yorkshire that play in tier 4 (National League 2 North), tier 5 (National League 3 North) and tier 6 (North 1 East) of the English rugby union league system. The current format is as a knock-out cup with