{"id":435743,"date":"2026-02-20T08:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435743\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:06:14","slug":"wru-head-of-womens-rugby-belinda-moore-to-leave-role-for-ecb-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/435743\/","title":{"rendered":"WRU head of women&#8217;s rugby Belinda Moore to leave role for ECB position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Belinda Moore will leave her role as head of women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; rugby at the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) to join the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) as The Hundred&#8217;s growth director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore was appointed in January 2025 when the role was created after the WRU&#8217;s independent review in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her contract was initially until the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2025 in England, but was extended until the end of the 2026 Women&#8217;s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales had a disappointing World Cup campaign, failing to qualify for the quarter-finals and were the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cglnw7x0y5jo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first team to be knocked out of the tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former chief executive of Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby (PWR) was a high profile appointment by the WRU and was tasked with helping to transform the game from pathways to professionalism, while improving the culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Moore played a role in the expansion of the new Celtic Challenge, the cross-border league between sides from Ireland, Scotland and Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will leave her position at the WRU in March and help find a successor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the meantime Moore will also be involved in negotiations over contracts for Wales women&#8217;s leading players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belinda Moore will leave her role as head of women&#8217;s and girls&#8217; rugby at the Welsh Rugby Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-435743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435743","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=435743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}