- 2005 Northern Rail Cup
The 2005
National League Cup in Britishrugby league was sponsored by train operating companyNorthern Rail , and was therefore known as the Northern Rail Cup. The 2005 competition was the first to feature sides from National League Three: previously the competition had only featured sides from National Leagues One and Two.There were no cross-group games in the 2005 competition, each team therefore playing only six games in the group stages. The top team from each of the first five groups progressed to the quarter-final directly. The second-placed team in each of these groups, plus the top team from group six (the group of teams from National League 3), played an additional round to determine the remaining three spots in the quarter-finals.
The winners of the 2005 Northern Rail Cup were
Hull Kingston Rovers .Results
Group Stages
Group 1
Group 4
Knockout stages
"Home team given first."
Play-off Round
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Swinton Lions 40-24Batley Bulldogs (1 May )
*Featherstone Rovers 44-20Workington Town (1 May )
*Hull Kingston Rovers 64-14Bradford Dudley Hill (1 May )Quarter finals
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Featherstone Rovers 14-38Castleford Tigers (29 May )
*Doncaster Dragons 54-38Halifax RLFC (29 May )
*Whitehaven 28-22Rochdale Hornets (29 May )
*Hull Kingston Rovers 62-0Swinton Lions (29 May )emi finals
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Hull Kingston Rovers 28-26Doncaster Dragons (19 June )
*Castleford Tigers 36-14Whitehaven (19 June )Final
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Castleford Tigers 16-18Hull Kingston Rovers (17 July ,Bloomfield Road ,Blackpool )
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