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Everything the paper holds for Rugby (Women's): game reports built from the signed-off box score, the schools that field the sport, the athletes who have chosen to be public, and the season calendar.

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From the Scorebook

Rugby (Women's) Game Reports

No Rugby (Women's) reports published yet

A report lands in this section as soon as both teams' books agree, the box score is signed off, and the recap is published from the game page.

The Season

Season Calendar

Season Calendar · 2026-27

Rugby (Women's) · World Rugby

PhaseStartsEndsNote
Women's Six Nations 2026Apr 11, 2026May 17, 2026England beat Ireland 33-12 in round 1; France lost 28-43 to England in the Bordeaux finale on Sunday 17 May.
Women's Six Nations 2027Apr 10, 2027May 15, 2027All five rounds on Saturdays, billed as five rounds of Super Saturdays, with one fallow week between rounds three and four. Opening fixture Italy v France on 10 April, finale England v France on 15 May. Fixtures were announced 13 May 2026 and several 2027 venues remain undetermined.
WXV Global Series 2026Sep 12, 2026Oct 31, 2026Top 18 ranked nations across an eight-week window, with the top 12 contesting a home-and-away cross-regional touring series. Northern-Hemisphere home rounds fall in September and Southern-Hemisphere away rounds in October.
WXV Global Series Challenger 2026Sep 13, 2026Sep 26, 2026Second division at Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground, Hong Kong. Nine matches in three triple-header rounds: round 1 Sunday 13 September, round 2 Saturday 19 September, round 3 Saturday 26 September. Tickets on sale from 4 August 2026.
U.S. collegiate 15s seasonA few preseason games in late August, 15s regular season opening the weekend of 5 September, semifinals Saturday 14 November at the higher seed and the final Saturday 21 November.
CRAA Women's Rugby 7s National Championships 2026Apr 25, 2026Apr 26, 2026Kuntz Stadium, Indianapolis. UC Santa Barbara won the Championship Division 22-12 over Stanford and Life University the Premier Division 17-12 over Lindenwood.
Women's Rugby World CupAustralia 2029; England hosted 2025 and the United States is set to host 2033

World Rugby WXV · checked Jul 31, 2026

Not Yet Confirmed

4 parts of the Rugby (Women's) year are still unsourced

These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.

Championship
2029 Women's Rugby World Cup dates and host citiesWorld Rugby would confirm. World Rugby WXV
Elite calendar (2027)
Official 2027 WXV and crossover calendar and British & Irish Lions Women's tour datesWorld Rugby and the Lions would confirm. World Rugby WXV
High school season
USA Rugby girls' high-school 15s and 7s season and national championship datesUSA Rugby would confirm. NFHS Activities & Sports
Club, youth and academy
Youth tryout, camp and academy datesUSA Rugby, the RFU and Rugby Australia would confirm. The Rugby Breakdown

Around The Season

High school
Not an NFHS sport; girls' high-school rugby runs through state rugby organisations and club structures. NFHS Activities & Sports
College
Women's rugby is an NCAA Emerging Sport for Women, not yet a full championship sport, and does not appear in the NCAA championship future-dates schedule. Thirty institutions sponsor it as an Emerging Sport, playing championship 15s in the National Intercollegiate Rugby Association and National Collegiate Rugby; the sport needs 40 sponsoring programmes to be considered for full championship status. Collegiate 7s championships fall in April. NCAA Emerging Sports for Women
Olympic and major games
15-a-side is not on the LA28 Olympic programme; only Rugby Sevens is. The women's pinnacle is the Rugby World Cup. LA28 Games Plan
Club, youth and academy
Southern-Hemisphere women's club competitions run in the Southern autumn and winter, with Super W and Super Rugby Aupiki grand finals in July 2026, alongside the Europe Championship 7s final leg in Split in late July, Japan's Taiyo Seimei 7s round 3 in late July and a USA U20 women's tour to South Africa. Northern-Hemisphere club rugby runs through winter into spring, for example the Celtic Challenge from early January and Ireland's Energia All-Ireland League into late April. U.S. college preseason is late August.
Busiest months
April, May, September, October, November

Results data · Published but human-readable only, and more fragmented than the men's game. World Rugby publishes official WXV schedules and results and Six Nations publishes its championship calendar, but full WXV fixture lists surfaced first through specialist media, several 2027 venues are still to be determined, and bilateral Tests are only aggregated by third parties.

Athletes

Public Rugby (Women's) Pages

Athlete records are private by default. Only athletes who have claimed their record and chosen to make it public appear here.

No public athlete pages in this section yet

An athlete appears here only after they have claimed their record and set it public. Nothing is listed on their behalf.

Bylines

Reporting on Rugby (Women's)

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Stories from named reporters covering this sport appear here, each carrying that reporter's page and their podcast, channel and social links.