The NRL is ready to introduce an annual girls’s Magic Spherical from subsequent season, with the inaugural two-day occasion to be held in Newcastle.
The league confirmed on Tuesday the lads’s format could be copied into the NRLW from 2025, with regional venues in NSW to host for the subsequent three years.
Six matches might be performed over two days at Hunter Stadium, as a part of the expanded 12-team competitors with the addition of Canterbury and the return of the Warriors.
Newcastle has change into the epicentre of ladies’s rugby league recognition in recent times.
A sold-out crowd of 25,782 attended State of Origin II this yr on the floor — a document for the very best attended stand-alone girls’s match in historical past.
“Magic Spherical has been one of many nice success tales for the sport and it’s fantastic to have the ability to replicate the carnival and enjoyable for the NRLW,” ARL Fee chairman Peter V’landys mentioned in an announcement.
“The fee is invested in girls’s Rugby League and NRLW Magic Spherical is the subsequent essential step within the development of the sport.”
The announcement comes after Newcastle was additionally handed the ladies’s State of Origin sequence decider for 2025, on Could 29.
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