Rugby League Advent #2 – Can you name all 10 double winners?

James Gordon

In the history of rugby league, only 10 clubs have won the double of league championship and Challenge Cup in the same season.

The most recent team to do it were Leeds in 2015 and before that in 2013 by Wigan, who equate for seven of the 19 times the double has been achieved.

They managed it in six successive seasons during their incredible spell of the early 1990s.

The feat has been achieved three other times in the Super League era – by St Helens in 1996 and 2006 and Bradford in 2003.

Aside from Wigan and St Helens, the only other team to have done the double more than once is Huddersfield, who did it way back in 1912-13 and 1914-15.

Prior to Wigan’s dominant era, St Helens were the last team to achieve it in 1965-66, while Warrington managed it in 1953-54.

Other teams in the double honours list are Broughton Rangers (1901-02), Halifax (1902-03), Hunslet (1907-08) and Swinton (1927-28).

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