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1955–56 Challenge Cup
Duration	5 rounds
Winners	St Helens
Runners-up	Halifax
Lance Todd Trophy	Alan Prescott
	← 1954–55; 1956–57 →;

The 1955–56 Challenge Cup was the 55th staging of rugby league's oldest knockout competition, the Challenge Cup.^[1]

First round

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
11 Feb	Castleford	12	Blackpool	9
11 Feb	Huddersfield	8	Whitehaven	4
11 Feb	Hull FC	4	Leeds	9
11 Feb	Hunslet	9	Bradford Northern	10
11 Feb	Keighley	33	Triangle Valve	8
11 Feb	Leigh	19	Doncaster	10
11 Feb	Oldham	31	Dewsbury	2
11 Feb	Rochdale Hornets	55	Stanningley	0
11 Feb	St Helens	15	Warrington	6
11 Feb	Wakefield Trinity	30	Bramley	10
11 Feb	Widnes	10	Halifax	22
11 Feb	Wigan	24	Featherstone Rovers	11
11 Feb	Workington Town	16	Salford	0
11 Feb	York	2	Barrow	26
15 Feb	Liverpool	13	Hull Kingston Rovers	5
15 Feb	Swinton	18	Batley	0

Second round

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
3 Mar	Barrow	47	Liverpool	5
3 Mar	Halifax	10	Workington Town	3
3 Mar	Keighley	3	Wigan	12
3 Mar	Leeds	12	Oldham	7
3 Mar	Leigh	5	Wakefield Trinity	11
3 Mar	Rochdale Hornets	2	Bradford Northern	5
3 Mar	St Helens	48	Castleford	5
3 Mar	Swinton	6	Huddersfield	8

Quarterfinals

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
24 Mar	Leeds	9	Halifax	14
24 Mar	St Helens	53	Bradford Northern	6
24 Mar	Wakefield Trinity	10	Barrow	14
24 Mar	Wigan	24	Huddersfield	2

Semifinals

Date	Team one	Score one	Team two	Score two
7 Apr	Halifax	11	Wigan	10
7 Apr	St Helens	5	Barrow	5
11 Apr	St Helens	10	Barrow	5

Final

In the Challenge Cup tournament's final St. Helens faced Halifax. Played on 28 April 1956 at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 79,341, St Helens won 13-2.^[2] This was Saints' first Challenge Cup final win in five Final appearances.^[3] Alan Prescott, their prop forward was awarded the Lance Todd Trophy for man-of-the-match.

The St Helens team was greeted enthusiastically upon their return to the North. After detraining at Liverpool the team's open-top coach ride to St Helens attracted an estimated 100,000 people despite pouring rain.^[4]

28 April 1956

St Helens	13 – 2	Halifax
Try Carlton, Llewellyn, Prescott Goals Rhodes (2)	^[5]	Goals Griffiths

Wembley, London
Attendance: 79,341 (HT 0-0)
Player of the Match: Alan Prescott


1	Glyn Moses
2	Steve Llewellyn
3	Duggie Greenall
4	Brian Howard
5	Frank Carlton
6	Bill Finnan
7	Austin Rhodes
8	Alan Prescott (c)
9	Len McIntyre
10	Nat Silcock Jr.
11	George Parsons
12	Roy Robinson
13	Vince Karalius
Coach:
Jim Sullivan


1	Tyssul Griffiths
2	Arthur Daniels
3	Thomas Lynch
4	Geoffrey "Geoff" Palmer
5	John Freeman
6	Ken Dean
7	Stan Kielty
8	Ken Traill
9	Albert Fearnley
10	Les Pearce
11	Jack Wilkinson
12	Alvin Ackerley (c)
13	John Henderson
Coach: