{"id":447061,"date":"2026-01-30T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447061\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:29:07","slug":"why-cant-premiership-womens-rugby-get-a-title-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447061\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby get a title sponsor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The key challenge for the league is convincing brands that it is worth investing in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite growth in the popularity of women&#8217;s rugby since the World Cup, PWR may be missing out on additional investment because of &#8220;tough economic conditions&#8221;, according to Lisa Parfitt, the co-founder of a sports marketing agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In women&#8217;s football, Barclays has been the title sponsor of the Women&#8217;s Super League since 2019 and in 2024 agreed a new three-year deal worth \u00a345m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In cricket, Vitality and Metro Bank are title sponsors of the women&#8217;s T20 Blast and One-Day Cup, in shared deals with the men&#8217;s tournaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parfitt says the current women&#8217;s sport sponsorship landscape is &#8220;healthy but selective&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She adds that, while women&#8217;s rugby offers investors a &#8220;long-term, culturally relevant opportunity&#8221;, businesses are focused on short-term certainty that PWR may not yet be able to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The key challenge for the league is convincing brands that it is worth investing in. Despite growth in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-447061","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\/447061","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=447061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}