The 1981âÂÂ82 Yorkshire Cup was the 74th occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
Castleford won the trophy by beating Bradford Northern by the score of 10âÂÂ5
The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 5,852 and receipts were ã10,359.
1981 was the start of a successful eleven year run for Castleford, previously only winners in 1977, they made eight appearances in the Yorkshire Cup final, winning four and ending as runner-up in four occasions.
It is also the first of two successive years when Bradford Northern played in the Yorkshire Cup final, and in both cases they ended as runner-up.
This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, no new entrants and no "leavers" and so the total of entries remained the same at sixteen.
This in turn resulted in no byes in the first round.
Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs
Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs
Scoring â Try = three points â Goal = two points â Drop goal = one point
1 * Hunslet had moved to Leeds United's Elland Road at the start of the season
2 * The attendance is given as 5,876 by RUGBYLEAGUEproject but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbook of 1991âÂÂ92 and 1990âÂÂ91 gives the attendance as twenty-four less at 5,852
3 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.