World Rugby Announces WXV Global Competition for 2023 | WRR 021

World Rugby WXV

Welcome to the top women’s rugby news for Mar 15-21! We’re starting with the announcement from World Rugby of a new global women’s competition kicking off in 2023. The WXV competition will have sixteen teams in three tiers playing a minimum of six tests throughout the year. This is hugely important as some teams play … Read more

Shortened Women’s Six Nations Approaches & Uncertain Details | WRR 020

Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Mar 8-14 begins with a look at the shortened women’s Six Nations which is set to kick-off in two weeks. We’re still waiting on all the details of the event including kick-off times, broadcast, etc… The event was originally pushed back so there would be room for … Read more

2021 Rugby World Cup Postponed & Possible Six Nations Expansion | WRR 019

2021 WRCRA

Welcome to the top women’s rugby stories for Mar 1-7 beginning with the 2021 Rugby World Cup being pushed back a year due to the pandemic. It’s not all that surprising as we’ve been speculating for weeks this would occur. With the World Cup being pushed back it means there should be room for the … Read more

Russia Wins Madrid 7s & Team GB’s Olympic Struggles | WRR 018a

Spain wins the 2020 European Championships

Welcome to the top women’s rugby stories for Feb 22-28 featuring Russia repeating as Madrid 7s Champion amongst some COVID concerns while Spain defeated a young Netherlands team to conquer the 2020 European Championships and move on to the 2021 Rugby World Cup Qualifiers. In other XVs news, Wales has named their squad and captain … Read more

Russia Wins Madrid 7s & Team GB’s Olympic Struggles | WRR 018

Russia wins the first weekend of 2021 Madrid 7s

Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Feb 15-21 begins with Russia winning the opening weekend of Madrid 7s. The tournament will repeat again this weekend with the same teams, will Russia take the top spot or will 2nd place France or 3rd place USA spoil? We also received an update around Team Great … Read more

Revamped Six Nations in April & Asia Rugby Cancellations | WRR 017

Asia Rugby has canceled their Regional Championship and 2021 Rugby World Cup Qualifier

Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Feb 1-14 where we’re covering two weeks and it begins with a revamped Six Nations kicking off in April. We also received final dates for the European Championships, and Asia Rugby has canceled their championship and qualifier due to COVID-19 travel & quarantine restrictions. So two steps … Read more

2021 Rugby World Cup Schedule Announced & Insights from Michelle Hooper | WRR 016

2021 Rugby World Cup

Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Jan 25-31 begins with the announcement of the 2021 Rugby World Cup schedule. Matches will begin September 18 and conclude on October 16. Scrum Queens spoke with Women’s Rugby World Cup Tournament Director Michelle Hooper to ask all the questions we’ve been dying to know. New Zealand … Read more

France & South Africa Prepare for Six Nations & Rugby World Cup | WRR 015

South Africa Xvs is in camp ahead of the 2021 Rugby World Cup

Under the Posts – Jan 18-24 sees France and South Africa XVs in camp this week preparing for the Six Nations and the 2021 Rugby World Cup. Fiji 7s is also in camp preparing for local 7s matches ahead of the delayed Olympics. We’ve updated our return to play for the USA, Spain’s Iberdrola league … Read more

Six Nations Postponed & 2020 Olympics Under Pressure | WRR 014

Welcome to the top women’s rugby stories for Jan 11-17! We start with the announcement that the women’s Six Nations will be pushed and won’t take place this spring. The news was met with derision on social media (mostly from men) commenting “who cares” or “I don’t care”. We’ve joined Bristol Bear Stef Evans’ #icare … Read more

Possible Six Nations Postponement & Premier 15s Updates | WRR 013

Allianz Premier 15s: Round Ten Review

Under the Posts – Women’s Rugby News for Jan 4-10 starts with breaking news from Scrum Queens that the women’s Six Nations could be postponed. This further further complicates scheduling for the remaining 2021 Rugby World Cup qualifiers and the 2021 Rugby World Cup event itself. England suspends all community rugby (again) excluding their elite … Read more