Premiership Women’s Rugby replaces Premier 15s in rebranding

Premiership Ladies’s Rugby is the brand new title of the Premier 15s after a rebranding of the elite ladies’s competitors in England, marking the beginning of a brand new period.

Gloucester-Hartpury claimed their first Allianz Premier 15s title on Saturday with victory over Exeter Chiefs, who fell on the ultimate hurdle for the second successive season, however Sean Lynn’s facet will defend their title below a unique guise after the competitors was renamed.

The Allianz Premiership Ladies’s Rugby membership competitors will start within the autumn and is being managed by Premiership Ladies’s Rugby in the beginning of a ten-year strategic plan for the ladies’s recreation in England.

“Our ambition is to rework the league into the world’s best, progressive, and sustainable home rugby competitors,” mentioned Premiership Ladies’s Rugby chief govt Belinda Moore.

“Elite ladies’s rugby in England has by no means been in a stronger place. We have now simply seen Gloucester-Hartpury win the Allianz Premier15s with an exciting victory over Exeter Chiefs, in entrance of a document crowd on the newly-named Queensholm.

“The ultimate was the fruits of a season which has confirmed that we’ve got robust participant expertise depth as the muse to develop the league over the following decade.

“The brand new period begins at the moment, and the competitors’s new appear and feel is designed to be highly effective, dynamic, and crowd pleasing. It goals to seize the joy and excessive vitality of the league, the gamers, the followers, and the game as a complete.”

Regardless of losing their second successive Rugby World Cup final last autumn to New Zealandthere’s lots to be enthusiastic about for England followers after Simon Middleton bowed out by profitable a TikTok Women’s Six Nations Grand Slam in entrance of a document crowd of almost 60,000 in opposition to France at Twickenham.

There’s additionally a house World Cup to look ahead to in 2025 below the new leadership of Kiwi John Mitchell.

Moore added: “We consider that rugby’s subsequent period will likely be constructed on the foundations of collaboration, and it’s a massively constructive step to see this partnership with the RFU and the golf equipment to ship what’s finest for the ladies’s recreation, harness the present foundations and speed up the expansion of the league.”

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