Organisers hope the 2025 Rugby World Cup can supercharge women and girls’ participation in the sport. The tournament, hosted in England, gets underway next August and finishes at Allianz Stadium in Twickenham next September.

A city is hopeful that hosting Women’s Rugby World Cup matches will inspire the next generation of players. One of the two games scheduled to take place at the Amex Stadium in Brighton, East Sussex, will feature England’s Red Roses.

There is less than one year to go until women’s rugby returns home, with England hosting the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2025.

Poppy Cleall is the highest-profile omission from England ’s 30-player squad for WXV1 in Canada. Cleall, the Saracens back-rower who missed out on a Red Roses contract earlier this summer, made her first appearance of the John Mitchell era against France earlier this month,

By Priscilla Rotich World Rugby has established the Impact Beyond 2025 Global Impact program to harness the lasting positive effects of the Women’s Rugby World