đ NEWSFLASH: The Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) 2024/2025 season is a wrap!
CONGRATULATIONS to Gloucester-Hartpury who achieved a ‘three-peat’ at StoneX Stadium beating Saracens 34-19 in the 2025 PWR final.
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2024/2025 SEASON INTRO
9 sides are contesting the Premiership Women’s Rugby 2024/2025 season which takes place over 18 regular rounds, followed by two semi-finals and a Grand Final. Regular season matches started in early October and continue until late February. The Final is scheduled for Sunday 16 March. Saracens – the 2021/2022 champions – are one of three London Premiership Women’s Rugby teams, along with Harlequins and last season’s newcomers Trailfinders Women.  Joining the sides from the capital are the reigning PWR champions Gloucester Hartpury along with Bristol Bears, Exeter Chiefs, Leicester Tigers, Loughborough and Sale Sharks.
The first Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) title was decided in June 2024. Gloucester-Hartpury were crowned champions in the top tier of women’s club rugby, to follow up the Allianz Premier 15s title they won in 2023. Gloucester mounted a superb second-half comeback to beat Bristol Bears at Sandy Park and lift the trophy in the inaugural PWR final.
Saracens finished in second place at the end of the regular 2023/2024 season, ahead of a defeat in the PWR semi-finals at the hands of Bristol Bears. Trailfinders finished sixth in their first ever season in the top tier of English women’s club rugby. Harlequins finished in seventh place.
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SEASON SO FAR – LONDON PREMIERSHIP WOMEN’S TEAMS
The regular season is over and defending champions Gloucester Hartpury finished top of the table, signing off with a 52-12 victory over Harlequins, guaranteeing themselves a home semi-final. Gloucester face Bristol Bears at Kingsholm on Sunday 2 March.
Saracens crushed Sale Sharks 66-14 on home soil in Round 18 to finish in second place.  It set up a mouthwatering London derby semi-final against Harlequins.  Saracens have home advantage in the showdown on Saturday 1 March.
Trailfinders Women ended the season on the wrong end of a 36-34 thriller against Loughborough Lightning. The Ealing side finished in a respectable 7th place, on 36 points, after their first season in the PWR.
The semi-final winners will face-off in the PWR Grand Final at StoneX Stadium on Sunday 16 March.  May the best teams win!
PREMIERSHIP MATCHES COMING UP IN THE CAPITAL
PWR Semi-final. Saturday 1 March: Saracens v Harlequins KO 3pm. Result: Saracens 32-24 Harlequins
PWR Grand Final. Sunday 16 March: TBC v TBC KO 3pm. Result: Gloucester-Hartpury 34-19 Saracens
TICKET NEWS LATEST: Harlequins ~ Saracens ~ Trailfinders Women
ABOUT PREMIERSHIP WOMEN’S RUGBY (PWR)
A new era for womenâs rugby in England started in July 2023 with the launch of Premiership Womenâs Rugby (PWR). It replaced the Premier 15s which started in September 2017.
Premiership Womenâs Rugby manage the Premiership Womenâs Rugby club competition. It takes place over eight months. In 2025 the semi-final play-offs and Grand Final will take place in March. This is to allow time before the Women’s Rugby World Cup. Taking place in the UK it starts in August.
PWR exists to deliver a ten-year strategy for womenâs rugby in England. The launch of the Allianz Premiership Women’s Rugby league is part of that strategy. This is a partnership between the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and the clubs.
The mission of Premiership Womenâs Rugby is to be the world’s most competitive, progressive and sustainable domestic competition. The PWR vision and mission is to create a generation of players and fans inspired by world-class club competition over the next decade.
A top tier of womenâs rugby union has existed since 1990. It lead to an improvement in Englandâs fortunes on the international stage. This ultimately saw the âRed Rosesâ win the Womenâs Rugby World Cup in 2014 and finish runners-up in 2017.
September 2017 saw the commencement of the Premier 15s designed to support the Red Rosesâ ambition to be the number one team in the world. 10 teams took part. Saracens Women were the inaugural champions beating London rivals Harlequins in the play-off final.
Teams for 2024/2025
Bristol Bears, Exeter Chiefs, Gloucester-Hartpury, Harlequins, Leicester Tigers, Loughborough Lightning, Sale Sharks, Saracens, and Trailfinders Women.
The three London Premiership Women’s rugby teams are Harlequins (based at Twickenham Stoop and Guildford). Saracens (who play their home matches at StoneX Stadium). Trailfinders (based at Trailfinders Sports Club).
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