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Scottish Women's Premiership (rugby union)

Scottish rugby union competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ7395205 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Scottish Women's Premiership (known as the Arnold Clark Women's Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the highest level of league competition for women's amateur rugby union clubs in Scotland.

History

The Women’s League was restructured in 2018. A consultation process with clubs began in 2017 where clubs were invited to apply for the league that they felt best suited their women’s teams.

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“Scottish Women's Premiership (rugby union)” enters the record as scottish rugby union competition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scottish, Women's and Premiership can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scottish Women's Premiership (rugby union)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.