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Leicester Tigers Women's Team

SECURE OUR PLACE IN THE GAME

‘A participation sport and a spectator sport’

It’s been just over 30 years since the inaugural women’s World Cup, organised by four female volunteers with full-time jobs from Richmond Rugby Club and a shared love of the sport. The event came to fruition without the backing of the Rugby Football Union or the International Rugby Board, as the tournaments founders were told that women’s rugby is a ‘participation sport not a spectator sport’.

Thankfully, times have changed. Our belief is that women's rugby is both and you are investing in a wholesale programme that furthers both of these areas.

We invested in our women’s game because it’s the right thing to do. We need your investment because we want this programme to grow the game.

On a participation level, this year we have worked with 7,761 women and girls to engage them with rugby. That equates to over 11,000 hours of delivery solely dedicated to local women and girls.

Whether that be going into schools and providing programmes, running the first ever Girls-only Residential Camp, a first ever Girls-only Masterclass, supporting University varsity or working with project rugby, we are actively growing the game in the Leicestershire area

On the flip side, this is very much a spectator sport and a famously growing one.  

In our sole year of operation, we have broken the record for largest crowd for a Championship fixture, men’s or women’s; we will be entering the Allianz Premiership Women's Rugby with an average attendance that is set to rival the very top of their division, with almost 5’000 season ticket holders already locked-in and a commitment to a double-header fixture with potential sell-out 26’000 crowds.

We have built a team that has frequently engaged millions across the main channel and the burgeoning women’s channels. We are using our platform to increase visibility of the game and engagement with the product.

At the centre of these two lies the Leicester Tigers women. A team that is recruiting International talent such as Amy Cokayne and Meg Jones, one that, in true Leicester Tigers fashion, has already tasted success, a squad lead by former Red Roses and headed up by a prodigious young coach with a direct connection to the Tigers famous academy that has been the bedrock of this club for so long.

In any way that you can, whether it be through investing directly into the women's programme through buying a Season Ticket, volunteering your time or through aiding both our long-term strategy and your business through becoming a partner of the club, your support is vital.

Your investment will help us transition to the next level.

Help us to secure our place in the game.

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  • Our mission statement is clear: 'To provide the same opportunities for the women in the Tigers Family as we do the men, giving space and independence for the chance to do it better.’

    The standards that we set at Leicester Tigers are non-negotiable, it is a fundamental part of what makes the club so successful. However, that doesn’t mean that the team won’t be able to stand out in some ways from their male counterparts.

    One of the key differences that fans at Mattioli Woods Welford Road have enjoyed is the closeness they enjoy with many of the players; the area between the stands and the field are packed with fans asking for selfies and autographs whilst there’s always post-match Q&A’s taking place in the bar.

    We aim to create role models for young women and girls across Leicestershire and the country. The team are brimming with positive examples of players from drastically varied rugby stories, united by their passion for the sport we all love.

    Providing the same opportunities means building a team the Tigers Family are proud to roar on from the stands of Mattioli Woods Welford Road, one that competes at the highest level of the game.

    It means providing the team with the support they need to balance their commitment to the game with their life outside of it.

    It means providing local women and girls with the opportunities to play rugby, to train with professional coaches and to have a clear pathway to achieve their dreams.

    That’s our mission. Help us secure it.

    “We are proud to have invested over £750,000 into our burgeoning women’s rugby programme. It is only right that Leicester Tigers should be leading the way across the rugby world and the women’s game is no different. Our capturing of key figures within the game, both on and off the field of play, helps to serve our ambitious strategy to become totally self-sustaining by 2027. Ahead of our first season at the highest level, we have already doubled our Season Ticket target for 2024/25 and are looking forward to hosting all Premier 15s home matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road.”
    Andrea Pinchen, CEO

  • 'Project Genesis' is a plan set over 6 years, encompassing the transition from the team's creation in 2021 to their emergence as a self-sustaining enterprise and the leading force in the women's game by 2027.

    We have recruited some of the best rugby players in the world and are building homegrown stars to inspire the idols of tomorrow.

    We are supported by over 4,500 loyal Leicester Tigers fans, who have committed to a Season Ticket for next year, a figure that represents almost half of all Men’s Season Ticket Holders.

    We are setting standards to be proud of. From our team and our coaches engaging with the local rugby community through guest coaching to the club’s innovative new period-resistant white shorts that will be introduced for the 2023/24 season.

    These changes have swept across Leicester Tigers wholesale. Our community has seen the introduction of girl’s specialist masterclass camps and our first girls-only residential camp. We’ve seen a new pathway formed with Brooksby Academy, to mirror the men’s side and allow our youth system to become the bedrock of the team.

    However, we need more support.

    A Principal Partner is a key driver in this journey. There’s a chance to write your name in history, the first key partner of the first-ever women's team in Leicester Tigers history. You will become a fundamental pillar of our growth and aid the hard-work we are driving, on and off the field.

    For the club, this is a stepping-stone rather than the final destination. The plans that the club have set in place are a long-term commitment and it’s your support that will allow us to make the transition to the next level.

    That next level sees the club become a leading light in the women’s game. It’s young girls across Leicestershire and the midlands having the opportunities to attend camps designed for them, to be inspired by strong women doing what they love, to have dreams of running out on the pitch at Mattioli Woods Welford Road and starring for Leicester Tigers.

    Be at the forefront of progress.

    Secure our place in the game.

    “Since jumping on board the Tigers women’s programme in its earliest stages, I’m overjoyed at how it has continued to go from strength to strength. From our performances last year in the Championship, to the development of players both within the squad and in the wider Leicester area, to the magical support we receive from fans up and down the country, it’s been quite a ride so far. And we’re only just getting started!
    Vicky Macqueen, Head of Women’s Rugby

  • We’re looking for a principal partner for the women’s team to try and catapult our programme forward, a partnership that comes with a wealth of benefits.

    The women’s game in the local area will develop at a training ground named after your business; Leicester Tigers women will play with your logo on the front of their shirts, broadcast to hundreds of thousands across live TV and across social channels that connect to millions of people.

    The role the principal partner would play would be to help support a brand-new facility for the women directly across the road from Oval Park, which will be the spiritual home of the women’s programme.

    Not only will the team play and train there but the facility would also be used for other women’s teams from both Leicester Universities and our own inner city inclusion team, allowing us to aid the growth of the game in the local area and make sure that our fantastically diverse local population all take rugby to heart.

    We are looking for an ongoing six-figure annual commitment from a partner who wants to be a force for good in the women’s game, but also one who can see how Leicester Tigers women would help them achieve their own business goals.

    Full benefits are listed below:

    • Naming rights for new women’s site
    • Front-of-shirt branding
    • Exceptional digital coverage across both the Leicester Tigers main and women’s social channels
    • Two player sponsorships 
    • Private Box / Hospitality at all women’s matches
    • Naming rights for a community programme for local girls
    • A women’s pre-season BBQ at the facility to network with other partners, meet the squad and use for staff engagement
    • Table at the end of season awards sitting at the same table as your sponsored players
    • Two match-worn signed shirts at the end of the season
    • Twenty women’s season tickets
    • Accreditation and video opportunity on Big Screen and LEDs at Mattioli Woods Welford Road at all women’s matches and on LeicesterTigers.com
    • Branding opportunities with road-facing fences, car park gates, and monolith at the training ground along with the clubhouse itself and pitch
    • Exhibition and Premier 15s cup games will be played at the new facility, with both crowd and ticketing opportunities

    Looking to become a Principal Partner or sponsor a Leicester Tigers Women’s player? Contact the team on 0116 217 1282 or email [email protected]

  • After lighting up the Championship this season Tigers Women face a sterner test next time around as they move into the world’s most elite women’s league, the Premier 15s.

    There are huge costs involved with entering the league and the club need the help of player sponsors to be able to give the team the best support to train and play.

    Your sponsorship of a player will grant you exclusive access to squad events and club hospitality, but your fee also allows us to pay members of the squad directly.

    Each Women’s First XV membership will cost £3,000 + VAT, with £2,000 going directly to the player!

    Your sponsorship will include:

    • Direct support for your chosen member of the Leicester Tigers women’s 2023/24 squad 
    • Branding on the big screen at women’s matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road club website 
    • Access to exclusive women’s events including:
      • Two places at the pre-season BBQ
      • One place at the end of season awards
      • Four places VIP hospitality at a women’s match of your choice (subject to availability)
    • Your player’s signed shirt at the end of the season
    • Two women’s season tickets

    Sponsor a Leicester Tigers Women’s player today! Contact the women’s team on 0116 217 1282 or email [email protected]

  • In their first ever year together, Leicester Tigers women have gone from strength to strength, playing a full-tilt attacking brand of rugby that has entertained supporters and saw them team top the Women’s Championship North 1 unbeaten and reach the Championship final at Twickenham.

    Further proving themselves as the best fans in rugby, the Tigers Family have shown up in numbers to support the Women’s side at every game in 22/23. With exceptional passion and energy from both players and supporters, the atmosphere at games has been electric.

    In incredibly exciting times for the Club, the Women’s side will be taking on a new challenge to face Grand Slam winning players and World Cup finalists as they compete in the most elite club competition in women’s rugby, the Premier 15s for their inaugural season in 2023/24 campaign.

    This is a side brimming with pride for their sport and excited to continue sharing that passion with supporters, to entertain, engage and inspire the fans with everything they do on and off the field.

    With huge growth in the first season as a team, your purchase of a 23/24 Season Ticket will help Leicester Tigers compete in the top-tier of domestic rugby, with all money from Women's Season Tickets to be invested directly into the women's game.

    With a hugely entertaining brand of rugby, exciting atmosphere, plenty of family-fun entertainment each matchday and the opportunity to see Tigers face international stars each week - secure your Season Ticket today!

  • Leicester Tigers Women's Team Volunteering

    You can lend your support to the team through volunteering in anyway you can; please sign up with ways in which you could get involved.

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Our mission statement is clear: 'To provide the same opportunities for the women in the Tigers Family as we do the men, giving space and independence for the chance to do it better.’

The standards that we set at Leicester Tigers are non-negotiable, it is a fundamental part of what makes the club so successful. However, that doesn’t mean that the team won’t be able to stand out in some ways from their male counterparts.

One of the key differences that fans at Mattioli Woods Welford Road have enjoyed is the closeness they enjoy with many of the players; the area between the stands and the field are packed with fans asking for selfies and autographs whilst there’s always post-match Q&A’s taking place in the bar.

We aim to create role models for young women and girls across Leicestershire and the country. The team are brimming with positive examples of players from drastically varied rugby stories, united by their passion for the sport we all love.

Providing the same opportunities means building a team the Tigers Family are proud to roar on from the stands of Mattioli Woods Welford Road, one that competes at the highest level of the game.

It means providing the team with the support they need to balance their commitment to the game with their life outside of it.

It means providing local women and girls with the opportunities to play rugby, to train with professional coaches and to have a clear pathway to achieve their dreams.

That’s our mission. Help us secure it.

“We are proud to have invested over £750,000 into our burgeoning women’s rugby programme. It is only right that Leicester Tigers should be leading the way across the rugby world and the women’s game is no different. Our capturing of key figures within the game, both on and off the field of play, helps to serve our ambitious strategy to become totally self-sustaining by 2027. Ahead of our first season at the highest level, we have already doubled our Season Ticket target for 2024/25 and are looking forward to hosting all Premier 15s home matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road.”
Andrea Pinchen, CEO

'Project Genesis' is a plan set over 6 years, encompassing the transition from the team's creation in 2021 to their emergence as a self-sustaining enterprise and the leading force in the women's game by 2027.

We have recruited some of the best rugby players in the world and are building homegrown stars to inspire the idols of tomorrow.

We are supported by over 4,500 loyal Leicester Tigers fans, who have committed to a Season Ticket for next year, a figure that represents almost half of all Men’s Season Ticket Holders.

We are setting standards to be proud of. From our team and our coaches engaging with the local rugby community through guest coaching to the club’s innovative new period-resistant white shorts that will be introduced for the 2023/24 season.

These changes have swept across Leicester Tigers wholesale. Our community has seen the introduction of girl’s specialist masterclass camps and our first girls-only residential camp. We’ve seen a new pathway formed with Brooksby Academy, to mirror the men’s side and allow our youth system to become the bedrock of the team.

However, we need more support.

A Principal Partner is a key driver in this journey. There’s a chance to write your name in history, the first key partner of the first-ever women's team in Leicester Tigers history. You will become a fundamental pillar of our growth and aid the hard-work we are driving, on and off the field.

For the club, this is a stepping-stone rather than the final destination. The plans that the club have set in place are a long-term commitment and it’s your support that will allow us to make the transition to the next level.

That next level sees the club become a leading light in the women’s game. It’s young girls across Leicestershire and the midlands having the opportunities to attend camps designed for them, to be inspired by strong women doing what they love, to have dreams of running out on the pitch at Mattioli Woods Welford Road and starring for Leicester Tigers.

Be at the forefront of progress.

Secure our place in the game.

“Since jumping on board the Tigers women’s programme in its earliest stages, I’m overjoyed at how it has continued to go from strength to strength. From our performances last year in the Championship, to the development of players both within the squad and in the wider Leicester area, to the magical support we receive from fans up and down the country, it’s been quite a ride so far. And we’re only just getting started!
Vicky Macqueen, Head of Women’s Rugby

We’re looking for a principal partner for the women’s team to try and catapult our programme forward, a partnership that comes with a wealth of benefits.

The women’s game in the local area will develop at a training ground named after your business; Leicester Tigers women will play with your logo on the front of their shirts, broadcast to hundreds of thousands across live TV and across social channels that connect to millions of people.

The role the principal partner would play would be to help support a brand-new facility for the women directly across the road from Oval Park, which will be the spiritual home of the women’s programme.

Not only will the team play and train there but the facility would also be used for other women’s teams from both Leicester Universities and our own inner city inclusion team, allowing us to aid the growth of the game in the local area and make sure that our fantastically diverse local population all take rugby to heart.

We are looking for an ongoing six-figure annual commitment from a partner who wants to be a force for good in the women’s game, but also one who can see how Leicester Tigers women would help them achieve their own business goals.

Full benefits are listed below:

  • Naming rights for new women’s site
  • Front-of-shirt branding
  • Exceptional digital coverage across both the Leicester Tigers main and women’s social channels
  • Two player sponsorships 
  • Private Box / Hospitality at all women’s matches
  • Naming rights for a community programme for local girls
  • A women’s pre-season BBQ at the facility to network with other partners, meet the squad and use for staff engagement
  • Table at the end of season awards sitting at the same table as your sponsored players
  • Two match-worn signed shirts at the end of the season
  • Twenty women’s season tickets
  • Accreditation and video opportunity on Big Screen and LEDs at Mattioli Woods Welford Road at all women’s matches and on LeicesterTigers.com
  • Branding opportunities with road-facing fences, car park gates, and monolith at the training ground along with the clubhouse itself and pitch
  • Exhibition and Premier 15s cup games will be played at the new facility, with both crowd and ticketing opportunities

Looking to become a Principal Partner or sponsor a Leicester Tigers Women’s player? Contact the team on 0116 217 1282 or email [email protected]

After lighting up the Championship this season Tigers Women face a sterner test next time around as they move into the world’s most elite women’s league, the Premier 15s.

There are huge costs involved with entering the league and the club need the help of player sponsors to be able to give the team the best support to train and play.

Your sponsorship of a player will grant you exclusive access to squad events and club hospitality, but your fee also allows us to pay members of the squad directly.

Each Women’s First XV membership will cost £3,000 + VAT, with £2,000 going directly to the player!

Your sponsorship will include:

  • Direct support for your chosen member of the Leicester Tigers women’s 2023/24 squad 
  • Branding on the big screen at women’s matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road club website 
  • Access to exclusive women’s events including:
    • Two places at the pre-season BBQ
    • One place at the end of season awards
    • Four places VIP hospitality at a women’s match of your choice (subject to availability)
  • Your player’s signed shirt at the end of the season
  • Two women’s season tickets

Sponsor a Leicester Tigers Women’s player today! Contact the women’s team on 0116 217 1282 or email [email protected]

In their first ever year together, Leicester Tigers women have gone from strength to strength, playing a full-tilt attacking brand of rugby that has entertained supporters and saw them team top the Women’s Championship North 1 unbeaten and reach the Championship final at Twickenham.

Further proving themselves as the best fans in rugby, the Tigers Family have shown up in numbers to support the Women’s side at every game in 22/23. With exceptional passion and energy from both players and supporters, the atmosphere at games has been electric.

In incredibly exciting times for the Club, the Women’s side will be taking on a new challenge to face Grand Slam winning players and World Cup finalists as they compete in the most elite club competition in women’s rugby, the Premier 15s for their inaugural season in 2023/24 campaign.

This is a side brimming with pride for their sport and excited to continue sharing that passion with supporters, to entertain, engage and inspire the fans with everything they do on and off the field.

With huge growth in the first season as a team, your purchase of a 23/24 Season Ticket will help Leicester Tigers compete in the top-tier of domestic rugby, with all money from Women's Season Tickets to be invested directly into the women's game.

With a hugely entertaining brand of rugby, exciting atmosphere, plenty of family-fun entertainment each matchday and the opportunity to see Tigers face international stars each week - secure your Season Ticket today!

Leicester Tigers Women's Team Volunteering

You can lend your support to the team through volunteering in anyway you can; please sign up with ways in which you could get involved.