2025–26 Premiership Women's Rugby

The 2025–26 Premiership Women's Rugby season is the ninth season of England's top-flight domestic women's rugby union club competition. It is the third season to be branded as Premiership Women's Rugby.

The reigning champions entering the season are Gloucester–Hartpury, who claimed their third league title after winning the 2025 final against Saracens.

Teams and locations

Notes

Player movements

Head coach changes

Ahead of the 2025–26 season, Bristol Bears, Exeter Chiefs, Gloucester–Hartpury, Leicester Tigers and Sale Sharks each announced changes to their head coach positions.

• Dave Ward departed Bristol Bears in April 2025, following the 2024–25 season, to take up the role of head coach with men's Champ Rugby club Ampthill. Scott Lawson was announced as his successor in June 2025.
• Susie Appleby departed Exeter Chiefs at the end of the 2024–25 season. Assistant coach Steve Salvin took charge.
• Sean Lynn departed Gloucester–Hartpury in March 2025, to take up the role of head coach with the Wales women's national team. Dan Murphy was announced as his successor in April 2025.
• Rachel Taylor departed Sale Sharks at the conclusion of 2024–25 season. She was replaced by Tom Hudson, who left Leicester Tigers to take up her role. Hudson was replaced at Leicester by Fraser Goatcher as director of rugby, and Ross Bundy as head coach in April 2025.

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 season was announced on 21 January 2025. The season start will be pushed back by three weeks due to the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup. The regular season fixtures were announced on 6 August 2025.

Notes:

• All fixtures are subject to change.
• Referees appointed to officiate are employed by the RFU, unless indicated otherwise.

Results

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Round 13

Round 14

Round 15

Round 16

Round 17

Round 18

Play-offs

Semi-finals

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

Most tries

Discipline

Citings/bans

Notes:

PWR Cup

The PWR Cup returned following a hiatus in 2024–25. The competition acted as a pre-season developmental tournament. In the PWR Cup, teams were drawn into two pools one of five teams and one of four teams. The pools were based on the 2024–25 Premiership Women's Rugby season standings. The top eight teams were placed using alternate seeding (1st in Pool A, 2nd in Pool B, 3rd in Pool A, etc.). The ninth team was randomly assigned to decide which pool had five teams. Each team played every team in their pool once, home or away.

The fixtures were announced on 17 June 2025. Teams that secured the top two positions within their respective pools advanced to the semi-finals, with the top ranked teams receiving home advantage. The winning teams from the semi-finals then progressed to the final, while the losing teams competed in the third-place play-off.

Saracens won the 2025 PWR Cup, retaining their title from 2023–24, after they defeated Harlequins in the final at StoneX Stadium on 11 October 2025.

Pool A

Round 1

Round 3

Round 5

Pool B

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Play-offs

Semi-finals

Third-place play-off

Final

References