SHARKS WOMEN KICK OFF PWR UP SERIES AGAINST LOUGHBOROUGH  

Sale Sharks Women will kick off the inaugural PWR Up Series with a home fixture against Loughborough Lightning, it was announced today. 

Rachel Taylor’s team face their PWR rivals in the first game of the season warm-up series on Saturday 7th September. 

Sharks’ second fixture will see them travel to Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium to take on Leicester Tigers on Saturday 14th September. 

Three weekends of fixtures will act as a warm-up for all nine Premiership Women’s Rugby clubs before their launch into league action on Saturday 5th October. 

Clubs have been grouped together into regional pools of three and will play one another once across three weekends. 

It will be an opportunity to see how league champions Gloucester-Hartpury fare as they prepare to defend back-to-back titles and how Bristol Bears bounce back from being league and Allianz Cup runners-up. 

The PWR Up Series will also deliver full-blooded local rivalries in every fixture, culminating in a triple-header Super Saturday on 21st September, with matches at Shaftesbury Park, StoneX Stadium and cinch Stadium at Frankin’s Gardens. 

The PWR Up Series will provide clubs the opportunity to get out on the pitch after a pre-season fine-tuning their craft for the 2024-25 campaign. 

It will be another landmark season of women’s rugby in England.  

With the Allianz PWR season concluding on Sunday 16 March, this gives the Red Roses a five-week rest period before the 2025 Guinness Women’s Six Nations and extra preparation for the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup hosted on home soil. 

  

Pool A: Leicester Tigers, Loughborough Lightning and Sale Sharks 

Pool B: Bristol Bears, Exeter Chiefs and Gloucester-Hartpury 

Pool C: Harlequins, Saracens and Trailfinders Women 

Fixtures 

Saturday 7 September 

2pm – Sale Sharks v Loughborough Lightning 

CorpAcq Stadium 

Sunday 8 September 

2pm – Gloucester-Hartpury v Exeter Chiefs 

Hartpury University Stadium 

3pm – Trailfinders Women v Harlequins 

Trailfinders Sports Club 

Saturday 14 September 

Noon – Harlequins v Saracens 

Twickenham Stoop 

12.30pm – Leicester Tigers v Sale Sharks 

Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium 

Sunday 15 September 

2pm – Exeter Chiefs v Bristol Bears 

Sandy Park Stadium 

Saturday 21 September 

2pm – Bristol Bears v Gloucester-Hartpury 

Shaftesbury Park 

2pm – Saracens v Trailfinders Women 

StoneX Stadium 

3pm – Loughborough Lightning v Leicester Tigers 

cinch Stadium at Franklin’s Gardens 

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