2023–24 Premiership Women's Rugby should not be confused with 2023–24 Premiership Rugby.
| 2023–24 Premiership Women's Rugby | |
| Date: | 18 November 2023 – 22 June 2024 |
| Matches: | 74 |
| Highest Attendance: | 16,237 – Harlequins v Gloucester-Hartpury, 30 December 2023 |
| Top Point Scorer: | Emma Sing (Gloucester-Hartpury) – 125 points |
| Top Try Scorer: | Abby Dow (Trailfinders) – 12 tries |
| Website: | www.thepwr.com |
| Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
| Teams: | 9 |
The 2023–24 Premiership Women's Rugby is the seventh season of Premiership Women's Rugby, the top-flight domestic women's rugby union club competition in England. Sponsored by Allianz for the fourth consecutive season, it is the first season under the rebranded banner of Premiership Women's Rugby, succeeding six seasons under Premier 15s branding.
In December 2022, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) and Women's Premier 15 Ltd (WP15) confirmed that eight clubs had been offered a place in the 2023–24 season. Four clubs from the 2022–23 season were omitted; DMP Sharks, Sale Sharks Women, University of Worcester Warriors, and Wasps Women. Two new clubs to the competition were named; Trailfinders Women and Leicester Tigers Women.[1]
In February 2023, the RFU confirmed that both Sale Sharks Women and Worcester Warriors Women had been issued with a conditional offer to join the league for the 2023–24 season, bringing the total number of teams to ten.[2]
All nine of the ten teams competing have support from either a professional men's Premiership or Championship side.
On 17 October 2023, the owners of Worcester Warriors Women, Cube International, notified the RFU and PWR that they intended to withdraw Worcester Warriors Women from Premiership Women's Rugby and the Allianz Cup.[3] [4] The regular season games involving Worcester would become bye weekends, and in the Allianz Cup, match results and player scores against Worcester were deleted from record.[3] [4] [5] Before their withdrawal, Worcester were the only independent team in the competition.[6]
See main article: article and List of 2023–24 Premiership Women's Rugby transfers.
The grid below shows each team's progression throughout the season, indicating their points total (and league table position) at the end of every round:
| Team Progression | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | R13 | R14 | R15 | R16 | R17 | R18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 0 (7th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 5 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 9 (3rd) | 9 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 14 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 19 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 24 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 29 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 34 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 39 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 49 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 54 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 59 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 64 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 69 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 74 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 76 (1st) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 76 (1st) | ||
| style="background:#97DEFF;" | 5 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 10 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 15 (1st) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 15 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 20 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 25 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 30 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 35 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 35 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 40 (1st) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 45 (2nd) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 45 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 50 (2nd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 50 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 55 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 60 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 65 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 70 (2nd) | |
| style="background:#97DEFF;" | 5 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 5 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 5 (5th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 10 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 15 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 15 (3rd) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 15 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 20 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 25 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 30 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 31 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 36 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 41 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 46 (4th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 46 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 51 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 56 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 58 (3rd) | |
| style="background:#97DEFF;" | 5 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 10 (2nd) | 10 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 15 (2nd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 17 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 22 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 27 (2nd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 28 (3rd) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 33 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 33 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 38 (3rd) | style="background:#FFB;" | 40 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 42 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 47 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 52 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 52 (3rd) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 52 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 57 (4th) | ||
| style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 0 (8th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 0 (9th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 5 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 5 (8th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 10 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 10 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 11 (7th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 16 (5th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 21 (5th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 21 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 22 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 22 (5th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 27 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 27 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 28 (5th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 33 (5th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 37 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 38 (5th) | |
| style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (7th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 1 (8th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 6 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (6th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 11 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 11 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (7th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 13 (7th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 18 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 18 (7th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 23 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 23 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 23 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 24 (7th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 29 (6th) | |
| style="background:#97DEFF;" | 4 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (6th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 6 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (6th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 11 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (6th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 18 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 20 (6th) | style="background:#FFB;" | 22 (6th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 22 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 23 (7th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 28 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 28 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 28 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 29 (7th) | |
| style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 0 (9th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 5 (6th) | 5 (7th) | 5 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 5 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 7 (7th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 7 (8th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 7 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 8 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 8 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 3 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 3 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 3 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 3 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 3 (9th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 3 (9th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 8 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (8th) | |||
| style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (9th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 1 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 2 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 2 (9th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 7 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 9 (8th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 7 (9th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 8 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 8 (8th) | style="background:#ADFF2D;" | 8 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 8 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 9 (8th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 9 (8th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 10 (9th) | |
| Updated: 2 June 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key | |||
| Win | Draw | Loss | Bye |
The regular season fixtures are due to play out over the course of 18 rounds, with each round consisting of five matches. The fixtures were announced on 9 August 2023.[3] [4] [8] Following the withdrawal of Worcester, fixtures previously involving them would become bye weekends.[5]
Highlights of the season include:
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As in previous seasons, the top four teams in the table, following the conclusion of the regular season, contest the play-off semi-finals on 9 June 2024 in a 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd format, with the higher ranking team having home advantage. The two winners of the semi-finals then meet in the final on 22 June 2024.
On 21 May 2024, it was announced that, as the highest seed, Gloucester-Hartpury would play in the 16:30 semi-final.[16] On 25 May 2024, Saracens were confirmed as the second team to qualify as home semi-finalists.
Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under World Rugby eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.
Source:[17]
| Rank | Player | Club | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emma Sing | Gloucester-Hartpury | 125 | |
| 2 |  Gabby Cantorna | Exeter | 95 | |
| 3 | Zoe Harrison | Saracens | 86 | |
| 4 | Amber Reed | Bristol | 79 | |
| 5 |  Sophie de Goede | Saracens | 74 | |
| 6 | Ellie Green | Trailfinders | 71 | |
| 7 | Lagi Tuima | Harlequins | 61 | |
| 8 | Ella Cromack | Harlequins | 60 | |
| Abigail Dow | Trailfinders | |||
| 10 | Megan Jones | Leicester | 67 |
Source:[17]
| Rank | Player | Club | Tries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abby Dow | Trailfinders | 12 | |
| 2 | Kathryn Treder | Loughborough | 11 | |
| 3 | Sydney Gregson | Saracens | 10 | |
| Marlie Packer | Saracens | |||
| Neve Jones | ||||
| 6 | Sarah Beckett | Gloucester-Hartpury | 9 | |
| Claudia MacDonald | Exeter | |||
| Lana Skeldon | Bristol | |||
| Bo Westcombe-Evans | Loughborough | |||
| 10 | 4 players tied | 8 | ||
| Player | Match | Match date | Law breached | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon Ikahihifo | Trailfinders vs. Harlequins | 18 November 2023 | 9.13–Dangerous Tackling (Red card) | 3-match ban | [19] |
| Zoe Harrison | Trailfinders vs. Saracens | 25 November 2023 | 9.27–Acts Contrary to Good Sportmanship (Citing) | 1-match ban | [20] |
| Demi Swann | Exeter vs. Bristol | 26 November 2023 | 9.27–Acts Contrary to Good Sportmanship (Citing) | 1-match ban | [21] |
| Emily Robinson | Harlequins vs. Saracens | 2 December 2023 | 9.12–Striking with the Head (Red card) | 5-match ban | [22] |
 Lizzie Goulden | Gloucester-Hartpury vs. Loughborough | 6 January 2024 | 9.13–Dangerous Tackling (Citing) | 3-match ban | [23] |
| Kelsey Jones | Gloucester-Hartpury vs. Saracens | 20 January 2024 | 9.13–Dangerous Tackling (Red card) | 3-match ban | [24] |
| Mhairi Grieve | Exeter vs. Sale | 11 February 2024 | 9.13–Dangerous Tackling (Citing) | 3-match ban | [25] |
| Linde van der Velden | Gloucester-Hartpury vs. Exeter | 2 March 2024 | 9.13–Dangerous Tackling (Citing) | 3-match ban | [26] |
| Poppy Cleall | Saracens vs. Leicester | 3 March 2024 | 9.27–Acts Contrary to Good Sportmanship (Citing) | 2-match ban | [27] |
| 2023–24 Allianz Cup | |
| Champions: | Saracens Women |
| Count: | 1 |
| Runnersup: | Bristol Bears Women |
| Matches: | 24 |
| Website: | www.thepwr.com |
| Previous Year: | 2022–23 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2022–23 Allianz Cup |
| Next Year: | 2024–25 |
| Next Tournament: | 2024–25 Allianz Cup |
| Teams: | 10 (before 17 October 2023) 9 (after 17 October 2023) |
In the Allianz Cup, teams were drawn into pools of five. Each team plays every team in their pool once, home or away, as well as having one bye week.
Teams that secure the top two positions within their respective pools will advance to a playoff for the 1st to 4th rankings. The winning team from the initial bracket will move on to the final, while the losing team will compete in the 3rd place playoff. Teams finishing in third or fourth within their pools will participate in a playoff for the 4th to 8th rankings. The winner of the initial bracket will progress to the 4th place play-off, while the losing team will be part of the 6th place play-off. Teams that are last at the end of the pool stage will participate in a two-legged play-off for the 9th to 10th position, with the overall winner determined by the aggregate score.
The fixtures were announced on 9 August 2023.[28]
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