2023–24 Premiership Women's Rugby

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.

Teams and locations

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.

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.

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. 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. Before their withdrawal, Worcester were the only independent team in the competition.

Player movements

Table

Round-by-round progression

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:

Regular season

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. Following the withdrawal of Worcester, fixtures previously involving them would become bye weekends.

Highlights of the season include:
* SuperPWR Weekend–All four Round 13 fixtures, on the weekend of 1–3 March 2024, were held at main stadiums and broadcast on either TNT Sports or YouTube and TikTok.
* Women's Slater Cup–Leicester Tigers and Gloucester-Hartpury contested the Slater Cup at Kingsholm on 25 November 2023, and at Welford Road on 3 February 2023, in honour of former Leicester and Gloucester men's player Ed Slater.
* Big Game 15– Harlequins hosted Gloucester-Hartpury in the season's edition of The Big Game at Twickenham Stadium on 30 December 2023.

Results

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

* Game rescheduled from 2 December 2023 due to a frozen pitch.

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Round 4

* Game rescheduled from 9 December 2023 due to absent medical cover.

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Round 5

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Round 6

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Round 7

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Round 8

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Round 9

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Round 10

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Round 11

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Round 12

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Round 13

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Round 14

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Round 15

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Round 16

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Round 17

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Round 18

Play-offs

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. On 25 May 2024, Saracens were confirmed as the second team to qualify as home semi-finalists.

Semi-finals

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Final

Leading scorers

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.

Most points

Source:

Most tries

Source:

Discipline

Citings/bans

* ''Note'': The cited player's club is listed in ''bold italics''.

Allianz Cup

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.

Pool A

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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Round 5

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Pool B

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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Round 4

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Round 5

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Cup play-offs

7th-9th place play-off

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=2nd leg

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=3rd leg

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5th-6th place play-off

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1st-4th place play-off

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=Third place play-off

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=Cup final

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Notes

References

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Premiership Women's Rugby
Premiership Women's Rugby seasons