Ladies’s Six Nations winners England will play reigning world champions New Zealand at Twickenham this September forward of the WXV 1 title defence in Canada.
The fixture may presumably break the earlier attendance file for a girls’s rugby match, after 58,498 spectators watched England beat France on the 82,000 capability Twickenham within the Ladies’s Six Nations final 12 months.
The 2 sides have met in 5 of the final six World Cup finals and all have been gained by the Black Ferns, most lately in a dramatic 34-31 victory at Eden Park in Auckland in November 2022, though the final assembly between the 2 groups noticed the Pink Roses clinch the inaugural WXV 1 title on New Zealand soil.
England captain Marlie Packer: “We need to host and play towards the perfect sides on the earth forward of the 2025 Rugby World Cup. Our final two video games at Twickenham have resulted in the perfect two crowds ever recorded in girls’s rugby.
“Taking part in the Black Ferns on the dwelling of English Rugby is an unbelievable alternative that does not come round all too typically. We will not watch for 1000’s of our supporters to get behind us on one other special occasion at Twickenham.”
The Pink Roses celebrated their third Grand Slam in a row with a 41-21 victory over France on the street
John Mitchell’s Pink Roses, who secured a sixth successive Ladies’s Six Nations trophy final weekend, will first tackle France at Gloucester’s Kingsholm Stadium on September 7 (3pm ko) earlier than welcoming the Black Ferns to Twickenham (3pm ko) per week later.
Eire certified for WXV 1 after third-place end within the Ladies’s Six nations, with Scott Bemand’s facet set to face Australia in Belfast in a one-off Take a look at on September 14 as a part of Irish Rugby’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations.
What’s the WXV match?
England beat New Zealand to win the inaugural WXV 1 title and can look to defend their title within the second version, which takes place in Canada between September 27 and October 13.
There are three tiers, every with six groups – WXV 1, WXV 2 and WXV 3. Every tier is performed as a stand alone match in a distinct location, with WXV 1 in Canada, WXV 2 in South Africa, and WXV 3 within the United Arab Emirates.
England shall be in the identical group as France, Eire and the highest three groups within the Pacific 4 sequence, contested between Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US. Scotland will return to defend their WXV 2 title.
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