đ The 2024/2025 Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) season awaits. Three London teams – Saracens, Harlequins and Trailfinders – will compete in the top tier of women’s club rugby in England. Stay tuned for fixture news when announced.Â
The first Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) title was decided in June 2024. Gloucester-Hartpury were crowned champions 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.
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9 sides will contest the new Premiership Women’s Rugby season over 18 regular rounds starting this autumn and finishing in June 2025. Saracens – the 2021/2022 champions – are one of three London Premiership Women’s Rugby teams, along with Harlequins and last season’s newcomers Trailfinders.  Joining the sides from the capital are the reigning PWR champions Gloucester Hartpury along with Bristol Bears, Leicester Tigers, Exeter Chiefs, Sale Sharks and Loughborough Lightning.
SEASON SO FAR – LONDON PREMIERSHIP WOMEN’S TEAMS
Stand by for updates once the 2024/2025 season gets underway this autumn.
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.
đ PREMIERSHIP MATCHES COMING UP IN THE CAPITAL
Watch this space for 24/25 fixture news when announced.
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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 will manage the Allianz Premiership Womenâs Rugby club competition, which starts in the autumn of 2023 and takes place over eight months with the semi-final play-offs and Grand Final set to take place in June.
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 2024/2024 (tbc)
Bristol Bears, Exeter Chiefs, Gloucester-Hartpury, Harlequins, Leicester Tigers, Loughborough Lightning, Sale Sharks, Saracens, and Trailfinders.
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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