Clubname: | St Helens Women |
Nickname: | The Saints The Red V |
Short Name: | Saints |
Founded: | (As Thatto Heath Crusaders) |
Colours: | White and red |
Ground: | Totally Wicked Stadium |
Capacity: | 18,000 |
Coach: | Matty Smith |
Captain: | Jodie Cunningham |
League: | RFL Women's Super League |
Season: | 2023 |
Position: | 2nd |
Current: | 2024 RFL Women's Super League |
Cup1: | League Championships |
Cup1titles: | 5 |
Cup1years: | 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021 |
Cup2: | Challenge Cups |
Cup2titles: | 8 |
Cup2years: | 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
Cup3: | World Club Challenges |
Cup4: | Other honours |
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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]
Season | League | Play-offs | Challenge Cup | |||||||||
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Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | ||||
2013 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 404 | 102 | 20 | [5] | Won in Grand Final[6] | W | ||
2014 | Won in Grand Final | W | ||||||||||
2015 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 586 | 84 | 22 | [7] | Won in Grand Final | W | ||
2016 | Won in Grand Final | W | ||||||||||
2017 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 182 | 124 | 6 | Lost in Preliminary Final | SF[8] | |||
2018 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 316 | 130 | 17 | Lost in Semi Final | R2 | |||
2019 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 522 | 131 | 25 | Lost in Semi Final | SF | |||
2020 | Super League | colspan="10" | ||||||||||
2021 | Super League | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 628 | 42 | 20 | Won in Grand Final | W | ||
2022 | Super League | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 314 | 63 | 12 | Lost in Semi Final | W | ||
2023 | Super League | 10 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 362 | 126 | 14 | Lost in Semi Final | W |
Grand Final
Winners (5): 2013,[9] 2014,[10] 2015,[11] 2016,[12] 2021
League Leader's Shield
Winners (2): 2016, 2021
Runners-up (2): 2017, 2019
Winners (8): 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024