Sale Sharks and Worcester Warriors have been given conditional provides to affix the ladies’s Premier 15s subsequent season.
Nonetheless, Sale will stay within the league because the Rugby Soccer Union (RFU) desires to take care of ladies’s rugby presence in northern England.
Financially troubled Worcester have not too long ago secured funding to permit them to proceed to function.
Ten groups will compete within the league subsequent season: Leicester and Ealing, who be part of for the primary time, and current Premier 15s golf equipment Loughborough, Bristol, Exeter, Gloucester-Hartpury, Harlequins and Saracens.
Alex Teasdale, RFU ladies’s sport director, mentioned: “We all know rugby within the north could be disproportionately challenged. We now have subsequently responded to the panel’s suggestion to discover if a northern membership could possibly be a part of the league.
“Given the significance of getting a northern provision, we consider with the proposed help bundle Sale Sharks can be properly positioned to proceed their work to develop and develop rugby within the area.”
The RFU mentioned it’s going to proceed to work in direction of an answer for golf equipment not provided a spot, and for many who want to be part of the league sooner or later.
Darlington Mowden Park Sharks and Wasps, the Premier 15s backside two sides, is not going to be concerned subsequent season.
Following the preliminary tender, Wasps mentioned they hoped to rejoin “on the earliest doable second” and that they might transfer from London to Coventry to be extra intently aligned with the boys’s aspect.
DMP Sharks, who crowdfunded to remain within the league this time period, didn’t apply to be included subsequent season due to the elevated stage of funding required.
