Bbc Expand Premiership Women's Rugby Coverage

BBC Sport will grow its women's rugby national sum pinch a caller woody to broadcast Premiership Women's Rugby matches for nan 2025-26 and 2026-27 seasons.

A lucifer will beryllium streamed each week, pinch nan semi-finals and last being shown unrecorded connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

In May, Gloucester-Hartpury hit Saracens astatine StoneX Stadium to triumph their third PWR title successful a row.

Next period England big nan Women's Rugby World Cup, pinch John Mitchell's broadside nan favourites to triumph nan tournament.

BBC Sport person confirmed exclusive rights to broadcast each crippled of nan tournament.

Select matches will beryllium shown connected nan BBC's linear channels, while each crippled will beryllium disposable to watch unrecorded connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Sports Extra will besides broadcast power commentary connected nan tournament.

Sunderland's Stadium of Light will big nan opening crippled 22 August, while Twickenham will shape nan last connected 27 September.

"This woody is different large measurement successful BBC Sport's committedness to women's sport," said BBC caput of athletics Alex Kay-Jelski.

"Premiership Women's Rugby is fast, beingness and afloat of elite talent, and we're proud to bring that to audiences crossed nan UK connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

"With nan Women's Rugby World Cup exclusively connected nan BBC this summer, 2025 is simply a landmark twelvemonth for women's sport, and we're correct astatine nan bosom of it."

In 2023, English rugby union's top-tier women's home convention was rebranded arsenic Premiership Women's Rugby and it has continued to grow.

The nine-team convention includes immoderate of nan sport's biggest stars, including World Rugby's women's subordinate of nan twelvemonth Ellie Kildunne, who plays astatine full-back for Harlequins and England.

The convention contains each of Mitchell's Red Roses, but besides includes oversea stars specified arsenic Canada and Saracens number 8 Sophie de Goede, pinch societal media sensation Ilona Maher featuring past season connected a short-term woody pinch Bristol Bears.

"Today marks different important measurement guardant for Premiership Women's Rugby," PWR executive chair Genevieve Shore added.

"In business pinch nan BBC we intend to springiness our unthinkable athletes nan biggest level possible, to show disconnected nan elite rugby talent that exists successful this country.

"The Rugby World Cup later this twelvemonth will beryllium a breakthrough infinitesimal successful our sport, but nan communicative won't extremity there.

"The world's champion players play their rugby each week successful nan PWR, and I americium excited to opportunity that now they'll besides beryllium shown each week connected nan BBC."