THE French Elite 1 season, which runs over the Northern Hemisphere winter, will kick off with a 10-team Nines tournament in Toulouges this weekend. It’s a lightning-quick series of matches running from 2.3opm to 8.30pm on Saturday at Clairfont Stadium, with the sides divided into two groups. The top two teams in each group will proceed to the semi-finals and…
A THREE-weekend US National Nines Championship featuring several previously unknown teams and carrying prize money will be held this year in Nevada. It’s understood California-based officials will announce today an “opening weekend” of Nines play in Winnemucca on October 1, followed by a Women’s National Championship and a men’s Western Championship – held together in the same city on October…
A DAZZLING sidestep from England international Tara Stanley in pouring rain decided the first ever women’s rugby league title in Europe to carry prize money.The York City Knights star star glided through the Leeds defence after seven minutes at AJ Bell Stadium in the RFL Women’s Nines final to bag a converted try in the bonus zone – she did the converting too – and…
TODAY’s RFL Women’s Nines finals from AJ Bell Stadium in Salford are to be televised on the ouRLeague platform, it has been announced. Five English and one French club will play off after 20 teams originally took part in qualifying on May 1, fighting to be crowned Europe’s first club champions in the abbreviated version of rugby league. It will…
Her father played in the first-ever Super League game and now Zoe Pastre-Courtine has been added to the Catalans Nines squad for their own tilt at rugby league history this Sunday. The Catalans Goddesses will bring a smaller squad to the RFL Women’s Nines finals at AJ Bell Stadium than travelled to Warrington for the pool matches on May 1….
WOMEN’S rugby league in Europe will take its first tentative step towards professionalism this Sunday when prizemoney is offered for the first time in a competition. The RFL Women’s Nines finals at Salford’s AJ Bell Stadium involve one French and five British clubs and will crown the first official champions in that region for the abbreviated version of the sport….
WHAT IS IT? The 2022 RFL Women’s Nines pool matches were held at Victoria Park, Warrington, on May 1. There were five pools of four teams. This Sunday marks the finals of that competition, with a Nines women’s champion for England and France to be crowned for the first time after six play-off matches, semi-finals and a final. This competition…
MATAKESI Rugby, self described as “a bunch of boys from Papamoa who like beer and footy”, swooped to take out the men’s open division at the London Nines. The touring Kiwi side monstered the United States’ Roots Rugby USA 18-4 in the final, played in sweltering conditions at London’s Chiswick Rugby Club. They had played in the Edinburgh Sevens, running…
