Current season, competition or edition: 2024 RFL Women's Nines | |
| Sport | Rugby league nines |
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| Founded | 30 March 2022 |
| No. of teams | 16 (Qualifying) 6 (Finals) |
| Country |  England  Wales |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Wigan Warriors (1st title) |
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The RFL Women's Nines is a rugby league nines competition played as a pre season tournament ahead of the RFL Women's Super League. It is the first Women's Rugby League title in Europe to award prize money. [1]
On 30 March, the RFL announced that the inaugural RFL Women's Nines tournament would take place on 1 May. [2] The competition saw teams from across RFL Women's Super League and RFL Women's Super League South, as well as selected invitational teams compete for six spaces in the final competition. The qualifiers saw 20 teams play in five groups of four with each group leader advancing to the final stage along with one wildcard team. Catalans Dragons, Leeds Rhinos, Huddersfield Giants, St Helens, and York City Knights were the five teams to advance as group leaders. Warrington Wolves were granted a wildcard entry as the best placed runner-up having drawn with St Helens and finished behind them on points difference. [3] [4] [5]
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Key: Q = Qualified, W = Wildcard
The finals took places at the AJ Bell Stadium in Salford on 24 July. [4] The tournament was won by the York City Knights. Results are as follows: [1]
12–4 
Huddersfield Giants 
29–6 Huddersfield Giants 26–0 St Helens 
16–8 
Catalans Dragons 22–7 
Warrington Wolves 37–0 Warrington Wolves 23–7 Catalans Dragons 26–0 St Helens The 2023 RFL Women's Nines competition began on 14 May and was once again held at Victoria Park, Warrington and saw 20 teams compete for the six places in the final tournament. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
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Key: Q = Qualified, W = Wildcard
The 2023 finals took places on 24 June at the AJ Bell Stadium in Salford for a second time and was contested by the six teams which qualified during the May event held in Warrington. Leeds Rhinos won the tournament for the first time. Results are as follows: [12] [13]
36–0 Warrington Wolves 
14–14 Leeds Rhinos 0–33 Wigan Warriors 11–10 St Helens 
0–23 York Valkyrie 16–8 Cardiff Demons 14–4 St Helens 4–12 Wigan Warriors The 2024 RFL Women's Nines competition began on 5 May and was held at Victoria Park, Warrington. All eight Super League teams took part along with a selection of teams from the regional Championships and Widnes Vikings of League 1. The 16 teams were divided in to four groups to compete for the six places (four group winners and two wildcards) in the final tournament. [14] [15] Leeds Rhinos and Huddersfield Giants were named as the wildcard entries for the finals day. [16]
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Key: Q = Qualified, W = Wildcard
The 2024 finals took place on 28 July at Craven Park in Hull, and was contested by the six teams which qualified during the May event held in Warrington. Wigan Warriors won the tournament for the first time. [17]
8–17 Huddersfield Giants 26–8 York Valkyrie 0–31 Wigan Warriors 12–4 St Helens 0–23 Leeds Rhinos 9–17 Cardiff Demons 
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