SUPER LADIES JOIN SUPER LEAGUE

14 January 2022

Our girls get the recognition they deserve with a promotion to the top league!

The Betfred Women’s Super League will expand again in 2022 after the pandemic delayed planned expansion to 12 teams in 2021.

Leigh Miners Rangers and Barrow Raiders, who finished first and second in the Women’s RL Championship in 2021, have been promoted to join the 10 BWSL clubs – meaning the competition will have expanded by 200% since it was launched as a four-team Super League in 2017.

Huddersfield Giants, who won the BWSL Shield on Grand Finals Day at Emerald Headingley in October after the 10-team competition split into two groups of five midway through the season, have earned promotion to a six-team Group 1 in 2022.

They will be joined by the top five from 2021 – Wigan Warriors, Castleford Tigers, York City Knights, Leeds Rhinos and the champions, St Helens.

Barrow and Leigh Miners will be joined in Group 2 by Bradford Bulls, Featherstone Rovers, Wakefield Trinity and Warrington Wolves.

There will be promotion and relegation between the groups – one up, one down at the end of the 2022 season.