1977–78 Lancashire Cup
Workington Town № Wigan
Paul Charlton 1 Malcolm Swann [ 1 ]
David Collister 2 Green Vigo
John Risman 3 David Willicombe
Ian Wright [ 2 ] 4 Steve Davies [ 3 ]
Iain McCorquodale [ 4 ] [ 5 ] 5 Jimmy Hornby [ 6 ]
Ray Wilkins 6 Alan Taylor [ 7 ]
Arnold Boxer Walker 7 Jimmy Nulty [ 8 ]
Derek Watts 8 Brian Hogan
Alan Banks 9 Geoff Aspinall [ 9 ]
Eddie Bowman 10 Robert Irving
Les Gorley 11 Bill Ashurst
Peter Gorley 12 Bill Melling [ 10 ]
William Pattinson 13 Bob Blackwood [ 11 ]
David Atkinson ( for Paul Charlton 62min ) 14 John Burke ( for Steve Davies 59min )
15 David Regan [ 12 ] ( for Bill Melling 59min )
16 score 13
9 HT 8
Competition and Results -- Final
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The 1977-78 Lancashire Cup tournament was the sixty-fifth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup had been contested. For the first time in many years, there was a new name on the trophy as this time it was relative newcomers Workington Town who joined the league in 1945. Workington Town won the trophy by beating Wigan in the final by the score of 16-13. The match was played at Wilderspool, Warrington, now in the County Palatine of Chester but (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 9,548 and receipts were £5,038. After relatively little success in the competition, Workington Town had reached the semi-final stage in 1973, 1974 and 1975, had been runner-up in 1976, and now winner in 1977. They would go on to be runners-up again in 1978 and 1979.