1975–76 League Cup (rugby league)

[4] Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs

[11] Involved 8 matches and 16 clubs

Involved 1 match and 2 clubs

Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

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Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

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Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-

This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures

The council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's "League Cup". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. As this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the "League Cup"
The competition ran from 1971–72 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams. The competition was dropped due to "fixture congestion" when Rugby League became a summer sport The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January
The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971–1977), the John Player Trophy (1977–1983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983–1989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.