Halifax won the trophy by beating Featherstone Rovers by the score of 10-0 The match was played at Belle Vue, in the City of Wakefield, now in West Yorkshire.
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.
[1][2][3][4][5] Involved 8 matches (with no byes) and 16 clubs Involved 4 matches and 8 clubs Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points 1 * Belle Vue is the home ground of Wakefield Trinity with a capacity of approximately 12,500.
The record attendance was 37,906 on the 21 March 1936 in the Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds and Huddersfield