| Club information | |||
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| Full name | St Helens Women's Rugby Football Club | ||
| Nickname(s) | The Saints The Red V | ||
| Short name | Saints | ||
| Colours |  White and red | ||
| Founded | 2013 (As Thatto Heath Crusaders) | ||
| Website | saintsrlfc.com | ||
| Current details | |||
| Ground(s) |
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| Coach | Derek Hardman and Craig Richards | ||
| Captain | Jodie Cunningham | ||
| Competition | RFL Women's Super League | ||
| 2024 | 1st | ||
 Current season | |||
| Uniforms | |||
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| Records | |||
| League Championships | 5 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021) | ||
| Challenge Cups | 8 (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]
- ^ "St Helens join forces with Thatto Heath Crusaders to enter Women's Super League". Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
- ^ "Bradford Bulls Women's Team". Bradford Bulls Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "St Helens Women: Super League side to receive match payments from 2024 season onwards". BBC Sport. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.