St Helens R.F.C. Women

Club information
Full name	St Helens Women's Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Saints; The Red V
Short name	Saints
Colours	White and red
Founded	2013; 12 years ago; (As Thatto Heath Crusaders)
Website	saintsrlfc.com
Current details
Ground(s)	Totally Wicked Stadium (18,000);
Coach	Derek Hardman and Craig Richards
Captain	Jodie Cunningham
Competition	RFL Women's Super League
2024	1st
	Current season
Uniforms
Home colours	Away colours
Home colours	Away colours
Records
League Championships	5 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021)
Challenge Cups	8 (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
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The rugby league club St Helens R.F.C. have operated a women's team since they took some women from Thatto Heath Crusaders, and other women's sides in 2017 ahead of the 2018 season.^[1] They won four successive Challenge Cups from 2013 to 2016, and again from 2021–2024. The 2016 win formed part of their treble winning season.^[2] The side won the 2021 Women's Challenge Cup after beating York City Knights, adding to the four cup titles won as Thatto Heath.^[3] That season, they also completed the treble for the second time.

In 2024 the club announced it would become semi-professional, and start making match payments to players, becoming the third British side to do so after Leeds and York who started the season prior.^[4]

2025 squad

2025 St Helens Women's Squad
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First team squad								Coaching staff
1 Beri Salihi – FB, SH 2 Phoebe Hook – WG, CE 3 Erin Stott – CE, FB 4 Amy Hardcastle – CE 5 Leah Burke – WG 6 Zoe Harris – SO, SH 7 Faye Gaskin – SH, SO 8 Vicky Whitfield – PR, SR 9 Katie Mottershead – HK 10 Chantelle Crowl – SR 11 Shona Hoyle – SR, positions 12 Emily Rudge – SR 13 Jodie Cunningham (c) – SR		14 Naomi WIlliams – CE (vc) 15 Georgia Sutherland – SR, PR 16 Darcy Stott – PR, SR 17 Caitlin Casey – SH, HK 18 Rachael Woosey – CE, WG 19 Caitlin Maylor – HK 20 Erin McDonald – PR 21 Amy Taylor – HB 22 Rebecca Rotheram – FB 23 Luci McColm – WG, CE 24 Alyx Bridge – SR 25 Danielle McGifford – WG		25 Emma Lowe 26 Hollie Brussels 28 Georgina Holmes – WG, CE 29 Hollie Bawden – SR, CE				Head coach Derek Hardman & Craig Richards Legend: (c) Captain(s) (vc) Vice-captain(s) Updated: 28 July 2025 Source(s): [1]

Seasons

Season	League									Play-offs	Challenge Cup
Season	Division	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	Pos	Play-offs	Challenge Cup
2013	WRL	11	10	0	1	404	102	20	1st^[5]	Won in Grand Final^[6]	W
2014		Unknown	Won in Grand Final	W
2015		14	11	0	3	586	84	22	2nd^[7]	Won in Grand Final	W
2016		Unknown	1st	Won in Grand Final	W
2017	Super League	6	3	0	3	182	124	6	2nd	Lost in Preliminary Final	SF^[8]
2018	Super League	12	8	1	3	316	130	17	3rd	Lost in Semi Final	R2
2019	Super League	14	12	1	1	522	131	25	2nd	Lost in Semi Final	SF
2020	Super League	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Super League	11	10	0	1	628	42	20	1st	Won in Grand Final	W
2022	Super League	8	6	0	2	314	63	12	2nd	Lost in Semi Final	W
2023	Super League	10	7	0	3	362	126	14	2nd	Lost in Semi Final	W
2024	Super League	14	13	0	1	614	88	26	1st	Lost in Grand Final	W
2025	Super League	14	11	2	1	590	112	24	2nd	Lost in Grand Final	RU

Honours

Women's Super League/Women's Rugby League
Grand Final
Winners (5): 2013,^[9] 2014,^[10] 2015,^[11] 2016,^[12] 2021

League Leaders' Shield
Winners (4): 2013, 2016, 2021, 2024

Runners-up (5): 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023
Women's Challenge Cup
Winners (8): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

Runners-up (1): 2025^[13]

References

^ "St Helens join forces with Thatto Heath Crusaders to enter Women's Super League". Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
^ "Bradford Bulls Women's Team". Bradford Bulls Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
^ "St Helens outclass York to take Women's Challenge Cup with Woosey double". TheGuardian.com. 5 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.
^ "St Helens Women: Super League side to receive match payments from 2024 season onwards". BBC Sport. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.
^ "Premier League Table". Women's Rugby league. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
^ "News". Women's Rugby League. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.
^ "Premier league table". Women's Super League. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015.
^ "Bradford Bulls and Featherstone Rovers meet in Challenge Cup Final". 4 The Love Of Sport. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
^ "Roll of Honour". Rugby Football League. Archived from the original on 4 July 2016.
^ "Thatto are just champion". Rugby-League.com. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
^ "Thatto Heath – Grand Final Champions!". 4 The Love Of Sport. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
^ "Leigh Miners and Thatto Heath take the honours at Grand Finals Day". 4 The Love Of Sport. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2023.
^ "Wigan thrash Saints to win first Women's Challenge Cup". BBC Sport. 7 June 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.

[1] "St Helens join forces with Thatto Heath Crusaders to enter Women's Super League". Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.

[2] "Bradford Bulls Women's Team". Bradford Bulls Foundation. Retrieved 27 December 2023.

[3] "St Helens outclass York to take Women's Challenge Cup with Woosey double". TheGuardian.com. 5 June 2021. Archived from the original on 2022-02-11.

[4] "St Helens Women: Super League side to receive match payments from 2024 season onwards". BBC Sport. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 6 March 2024.

[5] "Premier League Table". Women's Rugby league. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.

[6] "News". Women's Rugby League. Archived from the original on 14 January 2014.

[7] "Premier league table". Women's Super League. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015.

[8] "Bradford Bulls and Featherstone Rovers meet in Challenge Cup Final". 4 The Love Of Sport. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2023.

[9] "Roll of Honour". Rugby Football League. Archived from the original on 4 July 2016.

[10] "Thatto are just champion". Rugby-League.com. 6 October 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2023.

[11] "Thatto Heath – Grand Final Champions!". 4 The Love Of Sport. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2023.

[12] "Leigh Miners and Thatto Heath take the honours at Grand Finals Day". 4 The Love Of Sport. 2 October 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2023.

[13] "Wigan thrash Saints to win first Women's Challenge Cup". BBC Sport. 7 June 2025. Retrieved 7 June 2025.

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v t e St Helens R.F.C.
St Helens Rugby Football Club Est. 1873 in St Helens, England
The Club	History Records Honours Players International representatives Coaches Hall of Fame
Home grounds	City Ground Knowsley Road (1890–2010) Halton Stadium (2011) Totally Wicked Stadium (2012–present)
League	Super League
World Club Challenge (3)	2001 2007 2007
Championships (17)	1931–32 1952–53 1958–59 1965–66 1969–70 1970–71 1974–75 1996 1999 2000 2002 2006 2014 2019 2020 2021 2022
Challenge Cup (13)	1955–56 1960–61 1965–66 1971–72 1975–76 1996 1997 2001 2004 2006 2007 2008 2021
League Leaders Shield (9)	2002 2005 2006 2007 2008 2014 2018 2019 2022
Other honours	4—time Premiership Champions 1—time Western Division Champions 1—time Regal Trophy Champions 2—time BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Champions 11—time Lancashire County Cup Champions 11—time Lancashire League Champions 1—time Charity Shield Champions BBC Sports Team of the Year Award (2006)
Seasons	1895–96 1896–97 1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Culture	NRFU Founder Super League Founding Member Rivalry with Wigan
Affiliation	Rugby Football League (1895) St Helens Ladies

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