This year was another new name on the trophy - and ALSO St. Helens' third time in six years as runner-up Leeds won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 9-5 The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire.
The attendance was 7,612 and receipts were £2,189 This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.
The format was changed slightly removing the two-legged home and away ties from the preliminary round and playing the whole competition on a knock-out basis.
The preliminary round involved four clubs, to reduce the numbers to sixteen.
The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947.