Extra eyes are on girls’s rugby than ever earlier than.
Following a extremely profitable Rugby World Cup final 12 months, supporter numbers within the UK climbed from 7.94m pre-existing followers of ladies’s rugby to 13.21m, based on analysis commissioned by BBC Sport.
England’s victory over Canada in September’s remaining occurred in entrance of 81,885 followers at Allianz Stadium – a report for a girls’s rugby match and the second-highest attendance for a males’s or girls’s World Cup remaining.
It was the most-watched girls’s rugby match on UK tv, with a record-breaking peak viewers of 5.8m viewers. It additionally beat each the Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions’ profitable tour of Australia to turn into the most-watched rugby match of final 12 months.
Rugby union was the second most-watched girls’s sport in 2025, so with momentum at an all-time excessive, this 12 months’s Girls’s Six Nations is about to be comfortably the most important but by way of crowd numbers.
Pre-tournament demand has already damaged information, with all 4 residence nations staging fixtures at their nationwide stadiums.
The report crowd for a Girls’s Six Nations sport is 58,498 for the Grand Slam decider between England and France in 2023.
That report is about to fall, with greater than 75,000 tickets bought for England’s opener in opposition to Eire at Allianz Stadium on Saturday.
“There may be most likely a line of considering that audiences will simply continue to grow, however they’re really arduous to take care of,” Rugby Soccer Union director of ladies’s rugby Alex Teasdale advised BBC Sport.
“The position of the Purple Roses as ambassadors has helped maintain a few of that robust buy-in, and the followers have had an excellent time.
“It has been actually pleasing to see, however anybody concerned in girls’s sport is aware of it isn’t a given.
“It’s a must to work arduous to provide followers an excellent expertise so that they need to maintain coming again.”
Scotland will play their first Girls’s Six Nations match in entrance of followers at Murrayfield once they host England subsequent weekend.
Scotland girls’s report residence attendance of seven,774 was set at Hive Stadium in 2024, however greater than 25,000 tickets have been bought for the fixture.
The anticipated report crowd would be the largest for a standalone girls’s sporting occasion in Scotland.
Eire’s sport in opposition to Scotland on the ultimate weekend shall be their first on the 51,711-capacity Aviva Stadium and their report residence attendance of seven,754 is about to be smashed, with greater than 16,000 tickets already reported to have been bought.
Wales, who play Scotland at Principality Stadium on the opening weekend, are aiming to higher final 12 months’s report crowd of 21,186 for a Wales girls’s crew occasion on residence soil.
In the meantime, France will host England on the 42,115-capacity Stade Atlantique in Bordeaux within the remaining spherical, the place they’ll hope to have a full home for a doable Grand Slam decider.
However will the leisure on the pitch match the clamour for tickets?
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