The Rugby Football Union (RFU) says discussions with world champions New Zealand over a standalone women's game at Twickenham in 2024 are ongoing.
England beat France in the first standalone women's game at Twickenham in front of a record 58,498 fans earlier this year The Rugby Football Union has held discussions with the New Zealand Rugby Union about England facing the Black Ferns at Twickenham next year.
The fixture would be a repeat of the most recent World Cup final in Auckland last November, which the hosts won. "Clearly there is a bit of rivalry there between the Black Ferns and the Red Roses," RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney told BBC Sport.world record crowd of 58,498Sweeney also confirmed that England Rugby supports the concept of a women's British and Irish Lions tour in the future. Without giving away dates of when a tour could happen, he said the women's global calendar would accommodate its inclusion. "It's supported around certain key criteria in terms of being able to deliver some of the key objectives we have for women's matches." added Sweeney. "So the window that's been agreed for the Women's Lions tour to go ahead enables us to keep that separation between other competitions and other matches, so we're quite comfortable with that."As World Rugby unveiled details about the structures in place for an improved men's global calendar, chief executive Alan Gilpin conceded there were issues about the women's calendar going forward. The inaugural WXV tournament is currently under way, but is struggling for prominence as it clashes with the men's Rugby World Cup.He added: "We've got a challenge with WXV and the global release window in the future for the women's global calendar being in the same window effectively as the men's Rugby World Cup, so we're facing into the same problem as we look at 2027." more work to do and certainly a desire to give as much clear air to the women's global competitions as we can, but the reality is that we face that calendar challenge."'England must avoid post-2019 mistakes to build new era' - Matt Dawson columnCould the US death penalty ever die out?'I was a hero even though I didn't win the fight'Papali'i says 'Easy Company' can beat 'Bomb Squad'
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