{"id":548178,"date":"2026-03-18T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548178\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:56:08","slug":"limited-team-spaces-available-to-join-the-womens-nines-festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548178\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Team Spaces available to join the Women\u2019s Nines Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Women\u2019s Nines Festival will return in 2026 at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, on Saturday 2 May.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stepping away from its traditional format, this year\u2019s festival will include two separate competitions: a Challenge Grade and a Community Grade. The introduction of these grades allows more community teams to get involved, whilst maintaining competitive and enjoyable matches for all participants. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All Star teams from the Betfred Women\u2019s Super League will be joining the Challenge Grade including last year\u2019s winners Wigan Warriors. Whilst the Community Grade hosts a diverse group of talented clubs from across leagues one through three of the Women\u2019s community division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is your team considering joining the Women\u2019s Nines Festival? Join the ultimate celebration of Women\u2019s Rugby League and experience a community like no other!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are limited spaces left to join both the Challenge Grade and the Community Grade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Challenge Grade: Ideal for Women\u2019s Super League\/Academy teams, Championship teams and League 1 teams wanting a challenge. Limited to first 12 teams \u2013 2 spaces remaining\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Community Grade: Ideal for League 1\/League 2\/Development teams. Limited to first 8 teams \u2013 2 spaces remaining\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Women\u2019s Nines Festival encapsulates everything that makes Women\u2019s Rugby League special, it is a devoted space that showcases the power, strength and community in the women and girls\u2019 space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether you are playing, supporting, or discovering Rugby League for the first time. Join us for the ultimate celebration of Women\u2019s Rugby League!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teams are encouraged to get in touch as soon as possible to guarantee their place!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More details to be revealed soon. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For any enquiries, please contact: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugby-league.com\/article\/64638\/mailto:Mikayla.Gillespie@rfl.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mikayla.Gillespie@rfl.co.uk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like this story, share it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Women\u2019s Nines Festival will return in 2026 at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, on Saturday 2 May.\u00a0 Stepping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,271236,760,85],"class_list":["post-548178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-limited-team-spaces-available-to-join-the-womens-nines-festival-2026","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548178","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=548178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}