The match was played at Knowsley Road, St Helens, Merseyside.
This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.
winter there were very few Rugby League matches played during the months of January and February[2][8] The final was originally scheduled to take place on 27 January 1979, but was rescheduled due to the postponement of the semi-final matches.
[12] [13][14] Scoring - Try = three points - Goal = two points - Drop goal = one point As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season was as follows:[15] This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures 1 * Leigh Miners' Welfare are a Junior (amateur) club from Leigh (formed by merger of Astley & Tyldesley and Hope Rangers - and now renamed as Leigh Miners Rangers) [16] 2 * new record score between professional clubs in the competition - at the time, beating the previous record of 9-51 set when Blackpool Borough lost at home to Leeds by 9-51 in season 1972–73 3 * Milford are a Junior (amateur) club from Leeds 4 * Warrington official archives[9] show the game as being played on 30 September but RUGBYLEAGUEproject[1] and Wigan official archives[10] shows it as played on 24 September 5 * Postponed due to frozen pitch 6 * Postponed due to frozen pitch - was due to be televised by BBC 7 * Postponed due to the postponement of the Semi Final ties caused by frost and other extremely inclement weather.
The final capacity was 17,500 although the record attendance was 35,695 set on 26 December 1949 for a league game between St Helens and Wigan.