The Durham County Challenge Cup (commonly known as the Durham Challenge Cup) is an annual football competition held between the clubs of the

Durham County Football Association The Durham County Football Association (also simply known as the Durham FA) is the governing body of football in the historic county of Durham. The Durham FA was founded on 25 March 1883 and is the governing body for football in Durham from gras ...

which was first played in 1884. It is the senior

county cup The county football associations are the local governing bodies of association football in England and the Crown dependencies. County FAs exist to govern all aspects of football in England. They are responsible for administering club and player ...

for the historic county of Durham, which includes

Durham Durham most commonly refers to: *Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham *County Durham, an English county * Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States *Durham, North Carolina, a city in N ...

, Darlington, Gateshead, Hartlepool,

South Tyneside South Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is bordered by all four other boroughs in Tyne and Wear – Gateshead to the west, Sunderland in the south, North Tyneside to the no ...

, Stockton-on-Tees, and Sunderland. The first winners were Sunderland. Sunderland durham cup

List of winners

Complete list of Durham Challenge Cup winners since its first edition:Durham Challenge Cup winners
Synners.com *1883–84: Sunderland *1884–85: Darlington *1885–86: Bishop Auckland Church Institute *1886–87: Sunderland *1887–88: Sunderland *1888–89:

Sunderland Albion Sunderland Albion Football Club was an English association football club based in Sunderland, England, formed in 1888 and disbanded in 1892. The club was reformed in 2020 but has as of 2023 ceased operations again. Summary Sunderland Albion ...

*1889–90: Sunderland *1890–91: Darlington *1891–92: Bishop Auckland *1892–93: Darlington *1893–94: Sunderland 'A' *1894–95: Stockton *1895–96:

Tow Law Tow Law is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the south of Consett and 5 miles to the north west of Crook. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,952, increasing to 2,138 at the 201 ...

*1896–97: Darlington *1897–98: Stockton *1898–99: Bishop Auckland *1899–1900: Jarrow *1900–01: Sunderland 'A' *1901–02: Sunderland 'A' *1902–03: Sunderland 'A' *1903–04: Sunderland 'A' *1904–05: Leadgate Park F.C. *1905–06: Sunderland 'A' *1906–07: Sunderland 'A' *1907–08: Shildon Athletic *1908–09:

Hartlepools United Hartlepool United Football Club is a professional association football club based in Hartlepool, County Durham, England. The team competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. They were founded in 1908 as Har ...

*1909–10:

*1910–11: South Shields *1911–12: Sunderland 'A' *1912–13: Sunderland 'A' *1913–14: South Shields *1918–19: Sunderland 'A' *1919–20: Darlington *1920–21: Leadgate Park F.C. *1921–22: Sunderland 'A' *1922–23: Sunderland 'A' *1923–24: Ferryhill Athletic *1924–25: Sunderland 'A' *1925–26:

Shildon Shildon is a town and civil parish in County Durham, in England. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 9,976. The town has the Locomotion Museum, due to it having the first , built in 1825, and locomotive works on the Stockton and Darli ...

*1926–27:

Crook Town Crook Town Association Football Club is a football club based in Crook, County Durham, England. They are currently members of the and play at the Sir Tom Cowie Millfield. The club won the FA Amateur Cup five times. History Crook Town Footba ...

*1927–28: Sunderland 'A' *1928–29: Sunderland 'A' *1929–30: Spennymoor United *1930–31: Bishop Auckland *1931–32:

*1932–33: Jarrow *1933–34: Jarrow *1934–35: Stockton *1935–36:

Horden Colliery Welfare Horden Community Welfare Football Club, usually abbreviated to Horden CW is a football club based in Horden, County Durham, England. The club was formed as Horden Colliery Welfare in 1908 and joined the North Eastern League in 1935, reaching th ...

*1936–37: South Shields *1937–38: South Shields *1938–39: Bishop Auckland *1939–40: Blackhall Colliery Welfare *1945–46: Spennymoor United *1946–47: Blackhall Colliery Welfare *1947–48: Consett *1948–49: South Shields *1949–50: Consett *1950–51: Stockton *1951–52: Bishop Auckland *1952–53: Annfield Plain *1953–54: Spennymoor United *1954–55:

*1955–56: Bishop Auckland *1956–57:

*1957–58:

*1958–59: Consett *1959–60:

*1960–61: Consett *1961–62: Bishop Auckland *1962–63: Spennymoor United *1963–64:

*1964–65: West Auckland Town *1965–66: Sunderland Reserves *1966–67: Bishop Auckland *1967–68: Spennymoor United *1968–69: Consett *1969–70: Evenwood Town *1970–71: Ferryhill Athletic *1971–72:

*1972–73: Spennymoor United *1973–74: Spennymoor United *1974–75: Spennymoor United *1975–76: Spennymoor United *1976–77: South Shields *1977–78: Ryhope Colliery Welfare *1978–79: Spennymoor United *1979–80: Seaham Red Star *1980–81:

*1981–82:

*1982–83: Spennymoor United *1983–84: Coundon TT *1984–85: Bishop Auckland *1985–86: Bishop Auckland *1986–87: Coundon TT *1987–88: Bishop Auckland *1988–89: Billingham Synthonia *1989–90: Eppleton Colliery Welfare *1990–91: Billingham Synthonia *1991–92:

Hebburn Hebburn is a town in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It governed under the borough of South Tyneside; formerly governed under the county of Durham until 1974 with its own urban district from 1894 until 1974. It is on the sout ...

*1992–93: Murton *1993–94: Spennymoor United *1994–95: Spennymoor United *1995–96: Spennymoor United *1996–97: Spennymoor United *1997–98: Bishop Auckland *1998–99: Bishop Auckland *1999–2000: Darlington Reserves *2000–01: Bishop Auckland *2001–02: Bishop Auckland *2002–03:

*2003–04: Billingham Town *2004–05: Hartlepool United Reserves *2005–06:

Whickham Whickham is a village in Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The village is on high ground overlooking the River Tyne and south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was formerly governed under the histor ...

*2006–07: Consett *2007–08: Sunderland Reserves *2008–09: Billingham Synthonia *2009–10: Billingham Synthonia *2010–11: Gateshead Reserves *2011–12:

Spennymoor Town Spennymoor Town Football Club is a football club based in Spennymoor, County Durham, in the North East of England. They currently compete in and currently play their home matches at The Brewery Field. The club began playing in the Northern ...

*2012–13: Bishop Auckland *2013–14:

*2014–15:

*2015–16:

Newton Aycliffe Newton Aycliffe is a town in County Durham, England. Founded in 1947 under the New Towns Act of 1946, the town sits about five miles to the north of Darlington and ten miles to the south of Durham. It is the oldest new town in the north of Eng ...

*2016–17: South Shields *2017–18: Consett *2018–19:

*2019-20:

& Sunderland U23's (Shared) *2022: Ryhope Colliery Welfare

Notes

References

External links

Challenge Cup
at Durham FA website {{English Senior Cups Football in County Durham Recurring events established in 1884 County Cup competitions