Women's Challenge Cup

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Women's Challenge Cup
Current season or competition:
2023 Women's Challenge Cup
300
The women's, men's, and wheelchair Challenge Cup trophies
Sport Rugby league
Instituted 2012
Inaugural season 2012
Country  England
Winners File:Saintscolours.svg St. Helens (2022)
Most titles Thatto Heath Crusaders (4 titles)
Website Women's Challenge Cup
Broadcast partner BBC
Related competition Women's Super League
Women's Super League South
Championship
League 1

The Women's Challenge Cup is a rugby league knockout competition organised by the Rugby Football League. The competition started in 2012.

History

2012–2016: Foundations

The Women's Challenge Cup was set up in 2012[1] to run alongside the men's competition to give women's rugby teams more competitive games and to give the sport a bigger profile by attaching it to the Challenge Cup. Most teams in the first few years were community clubs and had no links to professional men's clubs. In 2014 the RFL set up an amateur league for the women's game, to help more women's teams get regular game time.[2]

2017–present: Exposure

In 2018 the competition started to receive a much higher profile, with the final being broadcast live on the BBC Sport website.[2][3] In 2019 bookmakers Coral agreed to sponsor the competition – in addition to their sponsorship of the men's Challenge Cup – and it was also announced that the final of the 2019 Cup would be played as part of a triple-header with the semi-finals of the men's 2019 Challenge Cup at the University of Bolton Stadium on 27 July 2019.[2][4] The 2019 competition also saw the introduction of a new trophy commissioned by the RFL.[2][5]

Finals

<templatestyles src="Screen reader-only/styles.css" />List of finals
Year Winning team Score Losing team Venue Template:Abr
2012 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 46–0 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Thunderbirds Crown Flatt [6]
2013 File:Saintscolours.svg Thatto Heath Crusaders 54–12 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Thunderbirds Mount Pleasant [7]
2014 File:Saintscolours.svg Thatto Heath Crusaders 32–24 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Thunderbirds Crown Flatt [8]
2015 File:Saintscolours.svg Thatto Heath Crusaders 22–6 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers Odsal Stadium [9][10]
2016 File:Saintscolours.svg Thatto Heath Crusaders 62–6 CarcassonneRLcolours.PNG Leigh Miners Rangers [11]
2017 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Bulls 50–16 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers Heworth ARLFC [12]
2018 File:Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds Rhinos 20–14 Castleford colours.svg Castleford Tigers Halliwell Jones Stadium [13]
2019 File:Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds Rhinos 16–10 Castleford colours.svg Castleford Tigers University of Bolton Stadium [14]
2020 Tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic [15][16]
2021 File:Saintscolours.svg St. Helens 34–6 [[Image:|16px|]] York City Knights Leigh Sports Village [17]
2022 File:Saintscolours.svg St. Helens 18–8 File:Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds Rhinos Elland Road [18]
2023 – Wembley Stadium

List of teams by number of wins

<templatestyles src="Screen reader-only/styles.css" />List of teams by number of wins
Club Wins Runners
up		 Winners Runners up
1 File:Saintscolours.svg St. Helens[lower-alpha 1] 6 0 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022
2 File:Rhinoscolours.svg Leeds Rhinos 2 1 2018, 2019 2022
3 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Bulls[lower-alpha 2] 1 3 2017 2012, 2013, 2014
4 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 1 2 2012 2015, 2017
5 Castleford colours.svg Castleford Tigers 0 2 2018, 2019
6 CarcassonneRLcolours.PNG Leigh Miners Rangers 0 1 2016
[[Image:|16px|]] York City Knights 0 1 2021
  1. ↑ as Thatto Heath (2013–2016)
  2. ↑ as Bradford Thunderbirds (up to 2015)

Challenge Shield

Between 2012 and 2019 teams that were knocked out of the cup in the early rounds went on to compete in the Challenge Shield competition.

<templatestyles src="Screen reader-only/styles.css" />List of finals
Year Winning team Score Losing team Ref.
2012 Widnes Vikings 40–10 Stanningley [19]
2013 Normanton Knights 34–14 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers [20]
2014 Fevcolours.svg Featherstone Rovers 64–14 Stanningley [21]
2015 unknown
2016 File:Saintscolours.svg Thatto Heath Reserves 62–6 Whitley Bay Barbarians [22]
2017 [[Image:|16px|]] York City Knights 26–24 Army RL [23]
2018 Bullscolours.svg Bradford Bulls 44–16 Stanningley [24]
2019 Army RL 40–4 [[Image:|16px|]] York City Knights [25]

Sponsorship

Year Sponsor Name
2019–2020[26] Coral Coral Women's Challenge Cup
2021–present[27] Betfred Betfred Women's Challenge Cup

See also

References

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