The competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in (or just before) December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused during, and immediately after, the two World Wars) 1936 was the twenty-ninth occasion on which the Yorkshire Cup competition had been held.
York won the trophy by beating Wakefield Trinity by the score of 9-2 The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire.
The attendance was 19,000 and receipts were £1,294 This was the York's second successive appearance in a Yorkshire Cup final, last year as defeated finalists.
It was also the third and last of York's Yorkshire Cup winning appearances, although they would appear in the finals twice more, on each occasion ending as defeated finalists This season there were no junior/amateur clubs taking part, one "leavers" with the loss of Acton & Willesden and one new entrant in the form of Newcastle.
According to "The Grounds of Rugby League",[4] Newcastle RLFC played at Brough Park in the 1936/37 season.