| 1938–39 Lancashire Cup | |
| Structure: | Regional knockout championship |
| Season Champs: | Wigan |
| Season Champ Name: | Winners |
| Runner-Up Name: | Runner-up |
| Second Place: | Salford |
| Prevseason Link: | 1937 Lancashire Cup |
| Prevseason Year: | 1937–78 |
| Nextseason Link: | 1939–40 Lancashire Cup |
| Nextseason Year: | 1939–40 |
| No Of Teams: | 13 |
1938–39 was the thirty-first occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held. Wigan won the trophy by beating Salford by the score of 10-7. The match was played at Station Road, Pendlebury, Salford, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 27,940 and receipts were £1,708
The number of teams entering this year’s competition remained the same at 13 and the same fixture format was retained. There was once again one bye and one “blank” or “dummy” fixture in the first round. The bye in the second round remained.
Involved 6 matches (with one bye and one “blank” fixture) 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 10 Sep 1938 | Salford | 8-4 | Broughton Rangers | The Willows | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Sat 10 Sep 1938 | St Helens Recs | 12-7 | Barrow | City Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Sat 10 Sep 1938 | Rochdale Hornets | 5-19 | Widnes | Athletic Grounds | [2] | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Sat 10 Sep 1938 | Leigh | 8-24 | Warrington | Mather Lane | [3] | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Sat 10 Sep 1938 | Wigan | 12-8 | Swinton | Central Park | [4] | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Mon 12 Sep 1938 | St. Helens | 5-10 | Liverpool Stanley | Knowsley Road | [5] | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Oldham | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | blank | blank |
Involved 3 matches (with one bye) and 7 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 | Wed 21 Sep 1938 | Oldham | 4-13 | Wigan | Watersheddings | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Wed 21 Sep 1938 | St Helens Recs | 8-10 | Liverpool Stanley | City Road | ||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Wed 21 Sep 1938 | Warrington | 5-4 | Widnes | Wilderspool | ||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Salford | bye |
Involved 2 matches and 4 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 | Wed 28 Sep 1938 | Wigan | 13-9 | Liverpool Stanley | Central Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Thu 29 Sep 1938 | Warrington | 6-12 | Salford | Wilderspool |
| 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 22 October 1938 | Wigan | 10-7 | Salford | Station Road | 27,940 | £1,708 | 1 | [6] |
| width=280 abbr="Wigan" | Wigan | width=60 abbr="Number" | № | width=280 abbr="Salford" | Salford |
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| teams | |||||
| Jim Sullivan | 1 | Harold Osbaldestin | |||
| Jack Morley | 2 | Barney Hudson | |||
| Ted Ward | 3 | Albert Gear | |||
| Gwynne Davies | 4 | Bob Brown | |||
| Gwyn Williams | 5 | Alan Edwards | |||
| Jack Garvey | 6 | Gus Risman | |||
| Hector Gee | 7 | Billy Watkins | |||
| George Banks | 8 | David Davies | |||
| Joe Egan | 9 | Bert Day | |||
| Ken Gee | 10 | Joe Bradbury | |||
| Ike Jones http://wigan.rlfans.com/readarticle.php?article_id=608 | 11 | Paddy Dalton | |||
| Trevor Thomas | 12 | Harold Thomas | |||
| Jackie Bowen | 13 | Jack Feetham | |||
| 10 | score | 7 | |||
| 4 | HT | 2 | |||
| Scorers | |||||
| Tries | |||||
| Goals | |||||
| Jim Sullivan (5) | G | ||||
| G | |||||
| Drop Goals | |||||
| DG | |||||
| Referee | |||||