The 2024 IRFU Women's Interprovincial Series was contested by women's teams representing the four provincial rugby unions of Ireland, under the same branding and uniforms as the senior men's teams in the United Rugby Championship. The competition currently uses a single round-robin format, similar to the one used in both the Six Nations Championship and the Women's Six Nations Championship. Each team plays the other three teams once. The following year the fixtures are reversed. As in previous seasons the competition also featured playoffs and a final.
Regular series Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Table
Finals day Third/Fourth play-off
Women's Interprovincial Final
Provinces Team Coach /Director of Rugby Captain Stadium Capacity Emer O’Dowd Dexcom Stadium 6,129 (expandable to 8,129) Tania Rosser Energia Park 6,000 Fiona Hayes Virgin Media Park 8,008 Murray Houston Kingspan Stadium 18,196 (9,000 seated)
Press reaction IRFU Head of Women's Development, Amanda Greensmith, commented: “Following on from the announcement of the Women’s Energia All-Ireland League fixtures for the upcoming 2024/25 season, we’re delighted to now confirm the schedule for this year’s Vodafone Women’s Interprovincial Championship.
“The quality, competitiveness and excitement has been building year-on-year and we’re looking forward to four weekends of Women’s Interprovincial rugby, marking the start of a busy and important season ahead both domestically and internationally.
“The support of Vodafone as title sponsor and of TG4 and BBC NI in broadcasting the Championship has been a real positive in recent years as the competition, teams and players are given the platform to showcase themselves to a wider audience, growing the sport and building exciting momentum behind the Women’s game.”
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