1970–71 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy
The 1970–71 BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was the sixth occasion on which the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy competition had been held. This year was another new name on the trophy - and ALSO St. Helens' third time in six years as runner-up Leeds won the trophy by beating St. Helens by the score of 9-5 The match was played at Headingley, Leeds, now in West Yorkshire. The attendance was 7,612 and receipts were £2,189 Background. This season saw no changes in the entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen. The format  was changed slightly removing the two-legged home and away ties from the preliminary round and playing the whole competition on a knock-out basis. The preliminary round involved four clubs, to reduce the numbers to sixteen. Competition and results. Preliminary round. Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs Round 1 – first round. Involved 8 matches and 16 Clubs Round 2 – quarter finals. Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs Round 3 – semi-finals. Involved 2 matches and 4 Clubs Round 3 – Semi-Finals – replays. Involved 1 match and 2 Clubs Final. Teams and scorers. Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal  = two (2) points - Drop goal = two (2) points The road to success. This tree excludes any preliminary round fixtures Notes and comments. 1 * This match was televised 2 * Headingley, Leeds, is the home ground of Leeds RLFC with a capacity of 21,000. The record attendance was 40,175 for a league match between Leeds and Bradford Northern on 21 May 1947. General information for those unfamiliar. The Rugby League BBC2 Floodlit Trophy was a knock-out competition sponsored by the BBC and between rugby league clubs, entrance to which was conditional upon the club having floodlights. Most matches were  played on an evening, and those of which the second half was televised, were played on a Tuesday evening. Despite the competition being named as 'Floodlit', many matches took place during the afternoons and not under floodlights, and several of the entrants, including Barrow and Bramley did not have adequate lighting. And, when in 1973, due to the world oil crisis, the government restricted the use of floodlights in sport, all the matches, including the Trophy final, had to be played in the afternoon rather than at night. The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in  1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final taking place in December (The only exception to this was when disruption of the fixture list was caused by inclement weather)