The 2021–22 Premier 15s is the 5th season of the
Premier 15s (23rd including editions of the previous
Women's Premiership
The Women's Premiership, also called the RFUW Premiership was the top level of women's rugby union in England until 2017. It was formed in 1990 and was run by the Rugby Football Union for Women. It was superseded in the 2017/18 season by Premi ...
), of the top flight of English domestic
women's rugby union
Women's rugby union is a full contact team sport based on running with the ball in hand. The same laws are used in men's rugby union with the same sized pitch and same equipment. Women's rugby has become popular recently. These days, women's r ...
competition and the second to be sponsored by
Allianz
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Allianz is the world's largest List of largest insurance ...
. Incorporated in the season also was the inaugural
Allianz Cup, a women's equivalent of the
Premiership Rugby Cup
The Premiership Rugby Cup is an English rugby union knockout cup competition for teams in Premiership Rugby and from the 2023–24 season the RFU Championship. It was created in 2018 to replace the Anglo-Welsh Cup after the withdrawal of the Wels ...
.
Saracens Women
Saracens Women () are an English women's rugby union club based in Hendon, London. They were established in 1989 and currently play in Premiership Women's Rugby (PWR), the top level of competition of women's rugby in the country.
Saracens a ...
, who finished top of the league table during the regular season, won their third Premiers 15s title on 3 June 2022, after defeating
Exeter Chiefs Women by 43–21 in the play-off final.
Teams
The 10 teams competing in the 2021–22 Premier 15s season are:
Table
Regular season
The fixtures for the 2021–22 season were announced by the
Rugby Football Union
The Rugby Football Union (RFU) is the Sports governing body, national governing body for rugby union in England. It was founded in 1871, and was the sport's international governing body prior to the formation of what is now known as World Rugby ...
on 6 August 2021.
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Play-offs
Semi-finals
Final
Leading scorers
Most points
Most tries
Team of the Season
The 2021–22 Allianz Premier 15s Team of the Season, which was revealed on 29 June, features players from seven different clubs and three different nationalities. The team was selected by a panel of five media experts–Jessica Hayden, Nick Heath,
Kat Merchant, Sara Orchard and Fiona Thomas.
Allianz Cup
The
Allianz Cup saw the Premier 15s clubs ranked by their previous finishing position and drawn in two pools of five, with clubs playing each other once in two home games, two away games, one bye week over five rounds.
The top two teams in each pool will progress to the semi-finals played at the highest ranked clubs’ venues (16 April 2022) as well a third-placed play-off and final (both 22 April 2022). The
Allianz Cup final will be played at the home venue of the winning semi-finalist club with the highest points’ difference.
The bottom four ranked teams will enter fifth, seventh and ninth placed play-off finals with the home team once again determined by stage one league tables. The Cup competition also gives greater exposure to every Allianz Premier 15s round.
Cup pool stage
Pool 1
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Round 5
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Pool 2
Round 1
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Round 2
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Round 3
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Round 4
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Round 5
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References
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Premier 15s
Premiership Women's Rugby seasons