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|[[Darlington Mowden Park Sharks]]||[[Darlington]], [[County Durham]] |
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|[[Lichfield Ladies]]||[[Lichfield]], [[Staffordshire]] |
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|[[Richmond Women]]||[[Richmond, London]] |
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|[[Saracens Women]]||[[Southgate, London]] |
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|[[Wasps Ladies]]||[[Acton]], London |
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Revision as of 13:07, 8 March 2014
The Women's Premiership, also called the RFUW Premiership is the top level of women's rugby union in England. It was formed in 1990 and is run by the Rugby Football Union for Women.
History
Women's rugby in England was initially run by the Women's Rugby Football Union on a British Isles-wide basis. The Women's Premiership was formed in 1990 as the top tier of women's rugby in the British Isles.[1] In 1994, the Rugby Football Union for Women was formed and took over the management of women's rugby in England, including the Women's Premiership, after Scotland, Ireland and Wales left the Women's Rugby Football Union.[2] At the start, most of the teams in the league were University teams.[2] Since the RFUW took over and Professionalism was permitted in 1996, the university teams gradually were replaced by women's clubs associated to professional and semi-professional mens clubs as they were able to give the women's team the funding to be able to compete.[3]
Promotion and relegation in the Women's Premiership is determined by the lowest placed team playing against the winner of the Championship 1 North-South playoff.[4] If the Premiership team wins, there is no promotion and relegation that year. It is noted that promoted teams often fail to win during the regular league season during their first season in the Women's Premiership, including Old Albanians Ladies and Thurrock T-Birds,[5] who were relegated in 2013 after losing to Aylesford Bulls Ladies in the 2013 playoff. During seasons that precede the Women's Rugby World Cup, promotion and relegation is suspended for that season.[4] In 2014, Thurrock appealed against this ruling to the RFUW, claiming that some Women's Premiership clubs were actively attempting to block promotion and relegation in Women's Rugby World Cup years.[6]
2013-14 Teams and Locations
References
- ^ "RFU Women's Premiership". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ a b "Women's Rugby – Then and Now". RFU. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ Paul Trow (1996-11-24). "Lessons of the sisters in arms". The Independent. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ a b "Bulls Ladies secure Premiership place". Kent Sports News. 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ "Premiership race going to the wire". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 2014-02-28.
- ^ Clark, Frazer (2014-01-29). "Saracens and Richmond Borough to blame for T-Birds". Thurrock Gazette. Retrieved 2014-02-28.