The 2022–23 Premier 15s is the 6th season of the
Premier 15s
Premiership Women's Rugby – officially known as Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby or The Allianz PWR – is an annual semi-professional women's rugby union club competition at the highest level of the English rugby union system, and is run ...
, the highest tier 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 (the 24th season 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 It was superseded in the 2017/18 season by Premi ...
), and the 3rd to be sponsored by
Allianz
Allianz SE ( , ) is a German Multinational corporation, multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. Its core businesses are insurance and asset management.
Allianz is the world's largest List of largest insurance ...
.
The competition schedule was adapted to take place in a shortened timeframe, compared with previous seasons, in order to accommodate the
2021 Rugby World Cup
The 2021 Rugby World Cup was the ninth staging of the Rugby World Cup (women), women's Rugby World Cup, as organised by World Rugby. It was held from 8 October to 12 November 2022 in Auckland and Whangārei, New Zealand. It was originally sche ...
.
For the second year running, the
Allianz Cup took place alongside the league, with fixtures for this cup competition scheduled within the international windows during the season.
Teams
As in previous Premier 15s seasons, 10 teams have been named to compete in the 2022–23 competition.
Player movements
Premier 15s
Table
Regular season
Fixtures for the 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 17 August 2022.
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 14
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18
Play-offs
As in previous seasons, the top four teams in the
Premier 15s
Premiership Women's Rugby – officially known as Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby or The Allianz PWR – is an annual semi-professional women's rugby union club competition at the highest level of the English rugby union system, and is run ...
table, following the conclusion of the regular season, contest the play-off semi-finals in a 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd format, with the higher ranking team having home advantage. The two winners of the semi-finals then meet in the Premier 15s final on 24 June 2023.
Semi-finals
Final
Leading scorers
Note: Flags to the left of player names indicate national team as has been defined under
World Rugby
World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international competit ...
eligibility rules, or primary nationality for players who have not yet earned international senior caps. Players may hold one or more non-WR nationalities.
Most points
Most tries
Team of the Season
The 2022–23 Allianz Premier 15s Team of the Season, which was revealed on 25 June 2023, features players from six different clubs and 4 different nationalities. The team was selected by statistics from
Opta.
Allianz Cup
The entire pool stage of the
Allianz Cup was contested before the start of the Premier 15s season. The Premier 15s clubs were 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. The Allianz Cup final was played at the home venue of the winning semi-finalist club with the highest points difference. In a change from he previous season, the teams ranked third and fourth in each pool also enter semi-finals as the first and second ranked teams instead of instant finals, which remains for the fifth ranked teams, which is to be played in two legs.
Pool stage
Pool A
=Round 1
=
----
=Round 2
=
----
=Round 3
=
----
=Round 4
=
----
=Round 5
=
----
Pool B
=Round 1
=
----
=Round 2
=
----
=Round 3
=
----
=Round 4
=
----
=Round 5
=
----
Finals
9th/10th place play-off
=1st leg
=
=2nd leg
=
5th-8th place play-off
=Bracket
=
=Semi-finals
=
=Final
=
1st-4th place play-off
=Bracket
=
=Semi-finals
=
=Final
=
Notes
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:2022-23 Premier 15s
Premier 15s
Premiership Women's Rugby – officially known as Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby or The Allianz PWR – is an annual semi-professional women's rugby union club competition at the highest level of the English rugby union system, and is run ...
Premiership Women's Rugby seasons