| 1927–28 Lancashire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout competition |
| Season Champs: | Swinton |
| Second Place: | Wigan |
| Prevseason Link: | 1926–27 Lancashire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1926–27 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1928–29 Lancashire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1928–29 |
| No Of Teams: | 13 |
The 1927–28 Lancashire Cup competition was the 20th competition in the history of this regional rugby league event and the final was a repeat of the 1925–26 Lancashire Cup Final, with Swinton beating Wigan by 5–2. The match was played at Watersheddings, Oldham. The attendance was 22,000 and receipts £1,275.
The number of teams entering this year's competition dropped back to 13 due to no amateur participation. This resulted in the competition running with 3 byes in the first round.
Involved 5 matches (with three byes) and 13 clubs
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 8 October 1927 | Oldham | 20–9 | Wigan Highfield | Watersheddings | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 8 October 1927 | St Helens Recs | 41–5 | Broughton Rangers | City Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 8 October 1927 | St. Helens | 7–13 | Swinton | Knowsley Road | 15,000 | [2] | ||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 8 October 1927 | Widnes | 10–8 | Rochdale Hornets | Lowerhouse Lane | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 8 October 1927 | Wigan | 21–8 | Leigh | Central Park | [4] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Salford | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Barrow | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Warrington | bye | [5] |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mon 17 October 1927 | Salford | 0–0 | Barrow | The Willows | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Mon 17 October 1927 | Warrington | 16–2 | Widnes | Wilderspool | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 19 October 1927 | St Helens Recs | 7–10 | Wigan | City Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Wed 19 October 1927 | Swinton | 18–9 | Oldham | Chorley Road ground | 8,000 | |||||||||||||||||
| Replay | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Thu 20 October 1927 | Barrow | 2–5 | Salford | Little Park, Roose | ||||||||||||||||||
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=30 abbr="Att" | Att | width=30 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 2 November 1927 | Swinton | 10–3 | Salford | Chorley Road ground | 7,000 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 2 November 1927 | Wigan | 12–5 | Warrington | Central Park |
| width=20 abbr="No" | Game No | width=100 abbr="Date" | Fixture date | width=150 abbr="Home team" | Home team | width=5 abbr="space" | width=20 abbr="Score" | Score | width=5 abbr="space" | width=150 abbr="Away team" | Away team | width=150 abbr="Venue" | Venue | width=45 abbr="Att" | Att | width=60 abbr="Rec" | Rec | width=20 abbr="Notes" | Notes | width=30 abbr="Ref" | Ref | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 19 November 1927 | Swinton | 5–2 | Wigan | Watersheddings | 22,000 | £1,275 | 1 | [6] |
| width=280 abbr="Swinton" | Swinton | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr="Wigan" | Wigan |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| teams | |||||
| Jack Pearson | 1 | Jim Sullivan | |||
| Frank Evans | 2 | ||||
| Hector Halsall (c) | 3 | ||||
| Jack Evans | 4 | ||||
| Chris Brockbank | 5 | ||||
| Billo Rees | 6 | ||||
| Bryn Evans | 7 | ||||
| Miller Strong | 8 | ||||
| Henry Blewer | 9 | ||||
| Bert Morris | 10 | ||||
| Martin Hodgson | 11 | ||||
| Dick Cracknell | 12 | ||||
| Fred Beswick | 13 | ||||
| 5 | score | 2 | |||
| 5 | HT | 0 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Fred Beswick (1) | T | ||||
| Goals | |||||
| Bert Morris (1) | G | Jim Sullivan (1) | |||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | |||||