In light of today\u2019s announcement of the agreement to show one game per week on BBC Sport, Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby (PWR) is proud to announce that, for the first time in league history, every single league match will be broadcast live throughout the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
Each weekend our coverage will be spearheaded by TNT Sports who will broadcast the first pick from each round. Of the remaining three fixtures, one will be broadcast live on BBC Sport, and two will be streamed live on YouTube, ensuring that a global audience can watch more PWR action than ever before.<\/p>\n
Genevieve Shore, Executive Chair of Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby, said: \u201cThis is a huge step forward for the visibility of our league and the incredible athletes who light it up week after week.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking all matches available live\u2014across TNT Sports, BBC Sport and YouTube\u2014means more fans can connect with our game. It\u2019s an unprecedented opportunity to showcase the quality, passion and competitiveness of Premiership Women\u2019s Rugby to the widest possible audience.<\/p>\n
“We know that visibility drives engagement and inspires participation. By making every match live, we\u2019re not just creating a better experience for fans\u2014we\u2019re helping build the future of women\u2019s rugby from grassroots to elite level.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe PWR is the best women’s club rugby competition in the world, and we can\u2019t wait to show that to more people than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rugby fans can tune in to the action starting with the opening weekend of the 2025 season, on 25-26 October, where all four unmissable matches will be broadcast across TNT Sports, BBC Sport and YouTube.<\/p>\n
Key Dates for 2025-26<\/p>\n
PWR league kick off – Saturday 25 OctoberPWR league semi-finals – 13-14 June 2026PWR Final – Weekend of 27-28 June 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In light of today\u2019s announcement of the agreement to show one game per week on BBC Sport, Premiership…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}