Oldham RLFC are delighted to confirm that the club’s application to enter Roughyeds Women into the Rugby Football League structure has been successful, and our team will play in a new Northern League 3 next season.<\/p>\n
Just five months after its launch, our new women’s team can now look forward to a competitive season in 2026, with the RFL set to confirm both fixtures and league structure early in the New Year.<\/p>\n
The year will start with a friendly against Keighley Cougars at Cougar Park on February 8th.<\/p>\n
Led by head coach Ben Marsden, the squad boasts a mixture of experienced and international stars alongside new local talent inspired to pick up a rugby ball for the very first time.<\/p>\n
Training sessions at Netpar Training Centre have seen squad numbers grow week on week.<\/p>\n
“We were very confident with our application and are delighted that our hard work so far has been recognised with the opportunity to play competitive games straight away,” said Marsden.<\/p>\n
We have a great group of players here already and some real talent – I am looking forward to seeing what we can do as a team.”<\/p>\n
Team manager Natalie Howarth added:<\/p>\n
“We have been really happy with the commitment so far and the players have shown real dedication over the last 16 weeks.<\/p>\n
“We have increased the intensity every week so far and the response from everyone has been brilliant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oldham RLFC are delighted to confirm that the club’s application to enter Roughyeds Women into the Rugby Football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-320164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}