With one 12 months remaining till England hosts the opening match of the Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025, World Rugby has introduced the BBC as its UK broadcast companion.
The deal goals to broaden the attain of the biggest-ever ladies’s rugby occasion. BBC Sport will present dwell protection of the match throughout its linear channels with each match additionally accessible on BBC iPlayer and the Sport web site.
The deal consists of the ultimate qualifier match WXV which may also be accessible on BBC platforms.
The match will probably be a nationwide celebration of ladies’s rugby that includes intensive protection throughout BBC TV radio and on-line.
Rugby followers will be capable of entry dwell audio commentary on BBC Radio 5 Stay and 5 Sports activities Further with extra content material throughout BBC Scotland BBC Wales and BBC Northern Eire. England at the moment ranked primary on this planet has already certified for the match with 9 different groups additionally securing spots. The ultimate six groups will compete for the remaining locations at WXV later this 12 months.
World Rugby Chief Govt Alan Gilpin mentioned: “We’re delighted to be partnering with BBC Sport for Girls’s Rugby World Cup England 2025 and WXV. The BBC is a large champion of ladies’s rugby and girls’s sport extra broadly and with their multi-platform, numerous programming strategy and regional attain, we stay up for making historical past collectively – the largest, most accessible and record-breaking celebration of ladies’s rugby ever.”
Alex Kay-Jelski, Director of BBC Sport Alex Kay-Jelski added: “Subsequent summer season is ready to be an enormous second for ladies’s sport and following protection of WXV and the Girls’s 6 Nations Championship on the BBC we’re proud to carry audiences unique protection of Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025 hosted in England. Large sporting moments have a singular skill to unify bringing individuals collectively and by no means extra so when worldwide competitions play out on house soil. And we can’t wait.”
The BBC deal will showcase the match and its stars to a wider viewers within the UK by way of complete free-to-air and digital programming main as much as the Girls’s Rugby World Cup 2025. The match will begin on 22nd August with hosts England kicking off the competitors at Sunderland’s Stadium of Gentle.
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