The 1961 Rugby League Lancashire Cup competition 1961 was the forty-ninth occasion on which the Lancashire Cup completion had been held.St Helens won the trophy by beating Swinton by the score of 25-9The match was played at Central Park, Wigan, (historically in the county of Lancashire). The attendance was 30,000, the last time the attendance at a Lancashire Cup final would reach 30,000, and receipts were £4,850.This was the second of five consecutive Lancashire Cup final wins for St Helens, and what is more, the second of the seven victories in a period of nine successive seasons.It was also the second of Swinton’s three successive Lancashire Cup final runner-up positions.