BBC Sport is expanding its women’s rugby coverage with a new deal to broadcast Premiership Women’s Rugby matches across the 2025/26 and 2026/27 seasons. Fans can look forward to a live match every week of the season – plus one semi final and the final – all streamed live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC
The first ever tour of New Zealand still lies two years away, in September 2027. But current events in Australia highlight the difficulties of extending the women’s venture beyond that first visit. Let’s imagine it proving a rip-roaring success: huge crowds boost the Black Ferns to a runaway 3-0 victory over the much vaunted Lions,
Sione Fukofuka has taken the unusual step of announcing his Eagles squad very early (full list below). With typically American verve the news came via a ceremony aired on YouTube. Brilliant! The strategy is curious since he summoned forty players together for a final training meet in Maryland on 10 July, and there is still
Next Friday 25 July sees the announcement of the 32 Black Ferns to fly to England. There are the usual dead certs, plus a number of chancier choices Allan Bunting has to make. Some Kiwi fans may well expect their favourite team, never called New Zealand at home, to win yet another pot. Others, taking
A. The first squad announced The USA Eagles became the first union to announce their squad: Kate Zackary (C); Erica Jarrell-Searcy; Emerson Allen; Hallie Taufoou; Maya Learned; Rachel Ehrecke; Tahlia Brody; Rachel Johnson; Paige Stathopolous; Alivia Leatherman; Catie Benson; Hope Cooper; Charli Jacoby; Freda Tafuna; Georgie Perris-Redding; Kathryn Tredder; Keia Mae Sagapolu; Hope Rogers Cheta
Back in the days when ScrumQueens was our bible, the admirable John Birch pointed out severe shortcomings in World Rugby’s rankings table. Without his ongoing assistance, I have to take it at face value. Fortunately very little has changed over the past weeks, since the sixteen qualified nations have devoted themselves largely to training. South
England U20 Women’s head coach LJ Lewis has named her squad to face France on Matchday 3 of the Six Nations Summer Series. The tournament’s closing fixture kicks-off at 18:00 BST at the CCB Centre for Sporting Excellence in Caerphilly this Thursday. All Summer Series fixtures will be streamed live on the Six Nations U20
Tyson Beukeboom Calls for Greater Investment Inspired by Siya Kolisi Canada’s women’s rugby team continued its impressive form with a dominant 2-0 series win over South Africa, but it wasn’t just the results that stood out—it was the call for greater advocacy and investment in the women’s game, echoed by the team’s captain and inspired
World Rugby and O2 have announced that global pop superstar, Anne-Marie, will play the Opening Show presented by O2 during the first match of Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025, at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light on Friday 22 August, where England will take on USA. Fans are set for an unforgettable opening match at Women’s Rugby
Black Ferns XV Head Coach Willie Walker has announced a 28-strong squad to travel to South Africa for two matches against the Springbok Women’s team in Cape Town. The two fixtures will both be played at the 34,000-seat Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on 26 July and 2 August in what will be the first
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