Rugby: England Rugby Sevens team to become professional

August 26, 2024

The Rugby Football Union has announced that is giving full-time contracts to 20 England players meaning that the top female rugby players are to be paid for the first time.

The contracts are for the Rugby Sevens team, but includes 12 members of the squad that won the 15-a-side Women’s Rugby World Cup in Paris earlier this month.

England’s World Cup-winning captain Katy Mclean, one of the players awarded a contract, described the deals as “fantastic news for the sport”. Up until this point all of the players trained in their spare time and the Women’s Rugby World Cup in France was made up entirely of part-time players, including a plumber and a vet.

The RFU said the one-year contracts would be awarded on an annual basis.

All 20 contracted players will train full-time at Twickenham and at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, starting in September.

They will compete in the 2014-15 IRB Women’s Sevens World Series, at which England will attempt to qualify for the Rio Olympics on behalf of Great Britain.

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