St Helens R.F.C. Women

St Helens Women
Club information
Full nameSt Helens Women's Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)The Saints
The Red V
Short nameSaints
Colours White and red
Founded2013; 11 years ago (2013)
(As Thatto Heath Crusaders)
Websitesaintsrlfc.com
Current details
Ground(s)
CoachDerek Hardman and Craig Richards
CaptainJodie Cunningham
CompetitionRFL Women's Super League
20241st
Current season
Uniforms
Home colours
Away colours
Records
League Championships5 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021)
Challenge Cups8 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

The rugby league club St Helens R.F.C. have operated a women's team since they took some women from Thatto Heath Crusaders, and other women's sides in 2017 ahead of the 2018 season.[1] They won four successive Challenge Cups from 2013 to 2016, and again from 2021–2024. The 2016 win formed part of their treble winning season.[2] The side won the 2021 Women's Challenge Cup after beating York City Knights, adding to the four cup titles won as Thatto Heath.[3] That season, they also completed the treble for the second time.

In 2024 the club announced it would become semi-professional, and start making match payments to players, becoming the third British side to do so after Leeds and York who started the season prior.[4]

  1. ^ "St Helens join forces with Thatto Heath Crusaders to enter Women's Super League". Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
  2. ^ "Bradford Bulls Women's Team". Bradford Bulls Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
  3. ^ "St Helens outclass York to take Women's Challenge Cup with Woosey double". TheGuardian.com. 5 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
  4. ^ "St Helens Women: Super League side to receive match payments from 2024 season onwards". BBC Sport. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.