Holders Hull turned on the style to book an immediate return to Wembley with a resounding 43-24 Ladbrokes Challenge Cup semi-final rout of Leeds.
Match stats: Hull FC 43-24 Leeds Rhinos
Hull tries: Kelly (23), Tuimavave (35, 46), Green (38), Watts (65), Shaul (72), Taylor (74)
Conversions: Sneyd (23, 35, 38, 46, 65, 72, 74)
Drop-Goals: Sneyd (55)
Leeds tries: Hall (19,31), Watkins (60), Golding (79)
Conversions: Watkins (19, 31, 60), Lilley (79)
Match report
Holders Hull turned on the style to book an immediate return to Wembley with a resounding 43-24 Ladbrokes Challenge Cup semi-final rout of Leeds.
Urged on by threequarters of the sell-out crowd of 14,526 at Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium, the Black and Whites ran in seven tries to four to seal a 16th appearance in rugby league's famous knockout tournament.
Not even two spectacular tries from England winger Ryan Hall could prevent Hull breaking the Rhinos' eight-match winning run against the Black and Whites, who ran in three tries in the last quarter to eventually run away with a match that was delicately poised at half-time.
Hull's imposing pack laid the platform for their second-half rout but it was Australian stand-off Albert Kelly who provided the spark on his return from a two-match injury absence while his half-back partner Marc Sneyd kicked seven goals from seven attempts as well as a drop goal.
Hull, who ended their lifetime wait for a win at Wembley with last year's victory over Warrington, will meet Salford (2/1) or Sky Bet's 2/5 favourites Wigan in the August 26 final.
Leeds had nine players back after sitting out their 34-0 defeat at Wigan and England pair Hall and Kallum Watkins made the biggest impact.
In contrast, the Rhinos' other winger Tom Briscoe had a fairly miserable afternoon as his old club targeted his vulnerability under the high ball, while Hull's right winger Mahe Fonua had the misfortune to be up against Hall.
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Briscoe, five-try hero in Leeds' last Wembley triumph in 2015, was spared embarrassment from his early knock-on when Hull second rower Mark Minichiello had a try disallowed for obstruction.
But Fonua had his pocket pinched when Hall outjumped him to touch down Joel Moon's high kick for the first try of the game and, after knocking on behind his own tryline trying to collect another Moon 'bomb', was beaten to Watkins' grubber by the England international as Leeds regained the lead on 32 minutes.
In between Hall's brace, Kelly demonstrated neat footwork to slide through a hole in the Rhinos' defence for his side's first try and then played a key role in the scores that put them in front.
The former Hull KR man combined with Sneyd to get centre Carlos Tuimavave over five minutes before the break and gathered Sneyd's crossfield kick to send replacement prop Chris Green over his first try for 12 months.
The Black and Whites continued in the same vein at the start of the second half and, after failing to finish off a clear-cut scoring opportunity, left winger Fetuli Talanoa palmed the ball back from Sneyd's kick to get Tuimavave over for his second try.
Sneyd kicked his fourth conversion and slotted a 55th-minute drop goal to extend his side's lead to 25-12 and the one-pointer began to look a smart score when Watkins ran onto Danny McGuire's neat kick and held off the cover to score Leeds' third try on the hour.
However, the game was up for the Rhinos five minutes later when the outstanding Watts charged onto Kelly's short pass and proved unstoppable from 10 metres out and Hull ran amok in the last 10 minutes, with full-back Jamie Shaul sprinting 90 minutes for an opportunist score and front rower Scott Taylor forcing his way over from close range.
Leeds finished a badly-beaten side but at least had the consolation of rounding off the scoring through full-back Ashton Golding, with Watkins kicking his fourth goal.
Match reaction
Hull coach Lee Radford on his side's victory: "I was really confident of getting a result, but it went better than I could have expected. Everything we set out to do in the week was executed nigh on to perfection and the effort and willingness to work for one another was really special. How we starved them of field position in the second half was particularly pleasing."
Radford was also full of praise for Marc Sneyd who kicked seven goals from as many attempts in a match-of-the-match display."Marc has been off for the last three or four weeks, but I thought he took control of the game today and got the team around the field. His kicking was second to none."
After leading his side to their historic victory at Wembley last August, captain Gareth Ellis added: "There is a bit higher level of expectation this year, we want to build that consistency. We worked on our failings over the last three or four weeks in training and built for this performance. We executed the game plan almost to perfection, only Danny McGuire kicks caused us some problems. If we keep turning up with this attitude and we're prepared to sacrifice a few areas of the game for the betterment of the team, I can't see anybody beating us.
Leeds coach Brian McDermott was full of praise for the Black and Whites. "I don't think we were that bad. The loss was more to do with them being really good on game day. I could be critical of my team, but Hull's forward ran a bit too strong in the second half. They had a huge amount of field position and we never seemed to get a hold in the game in the second half.
"It will hurt. It's a tough pill to swallow - we've a couple of blokes retiring at the end of the year - and there are some things we need to address in the next few days."
