Saracens Women () are an English women's rugby union club based in Hendon, London. They were established in 1989, and currently play in Premiership Women's Rugby (PWR) and the PWR Cup, the top-level competitions of women's rugby in the country.
Saracens are one of the most successful women's teams in English domestic rugby union history. They have earned a total of 16 top-flight league titles – most recently in the 2025–26 season. In top-tier domestic cup competitions, they have won an additional 12 titles – most recently in the 2025–26 season.
The team also serves as the women's branch of men's Premiership club Saracens.
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History
Saracens Women were originally founded in 1989 by a group of nine players – which included England internationals Emma Mitchell, Janis Ross and Sam Robson, and Wales internationals Amanda Bennett and Liza Burgess – who had identified a need for another women's rugby club in north London. The founding members gained approval to establish the team, after agreeing to assist with the commercial operations of the Saracens men's team, who had just been promoted into the top flight for the 1989–90 season. In their debut season, they won the second division and achieved promotion to the Women's Premiership for the 1990–91 season. The team then claimed their first silverware at the national sevens tournament in 1990, and earned a total of 17 trophies over the ensuing decade, including domestic trebles in 1993 and 1998.
Upon entering the new millennium, Saracens Women were crowned Premiership champions in 2000, before new coaching staff were appointed in 2001, headed by former Saracens men's player Lee Adamson and club co-founder Amanda Bennett. Adamson held both coaching and administrative positions at Saracens, until he departed in 2007 to coach the Scotland women's national rugby union team. The team won the league again in 2002, under the captaincy of England international Claire Frost, and then achieved a sequence of four consecutive titles between 2006 and 2009. Throughout those four years, Saracens remained unbeaten in the competition – a feat not achieved before or since at the top level of English women's rugby. Prominent players during this period included England's most capped hooker, Amy Garnett, and flanker Maggie Alphonsi, who played her entire career at Saracens and was later named a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to rugby.
Off the back of this dominant spell, Saracens Women went five years without silverware, recording three second-place finishes in the league. In 2014, Rob Cain was installed as head coach, and the club proceeded to achieve a league and cup double in 2015. Cain continued as head coach through to the launch of the Premier 15s, after which he left to take the helm of the United States women's national rugby union team in 2018. Saracens secured the 2017–18 Premier 15s title, following a season notable for the breakthrough of a new generation of future England internationals who graduated through the club's academy pathway via Welwyn RFC, including prop Hannah Botterman, fly-half Zoe Harrison, centre Helena Rowland and scrum-half Ella Wyrwas.
Led by new head coach Alex Austerberry and captain Lotte Clapp, Saracens Women cemented themselves as the dominant team in the Premier 15s, which operated as the highest level of women's domestic rugby union competition in England between 2017 and 2023, until it was rebranded as Premiership Women's Rugby. During this period, the club won the title in 2018, 2019 and 2022, while also achieving five consecutive first-place finishes in the regular season league tables. In September 2019, Saracens also announced that it would double its financial investment in the women's team, in addition to increasing alignment with the resources attached to the men's squad.
Club honours
Saracens Women
Women's Premiership / RFUW Premiership
Champions: (12) 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2014–15
Runners–up: (9) 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2015–16
Premier 15s / Premiership Women's Rugby
Champions: (4) 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2025–26
Runners–up: (2) 2020–21, 2024–25
National Cup
Champions: (9) 1990–91, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2007–08, 2014–15
Runners–up: (5) 1991–92, 1993–94, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2015–16
PWR Cup
Champions: (2) 2023–24, 2025–26
Runners–up: (1) 2022–23
Saracens Women Reserves
Women's Premiership 2 / Championship South
Champions: (2) 2003–04, 2012–13
Runners–up: (4) 2004–05, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15
Premier 15s Development League
Champions: (2) 2017–18, 2018–19
Saracens Women 7s
National 7s
Champions: (8) 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2005
Runners–up: (TBC)
Singha Premiership 7s
Champions: (1) 2016
Current squad
The Saracens Women senior squad for the 2026–27 season is:
Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.
Note: Players listed in bold have received at least one senior international test cap.
Club staff
The current Saracens senior management and coaching staff, as of the 2026–27 season, is as follows:
Notable former coaches
The following former Saracens Women coaches have gone on to serve in high-profile positions at international level, or at other top-tier clubs in the women's or men's game:
Playing kit
The Saracens playing kit is currently supplied by British sportswear manufacturer Castore, as of the beginning of the 2021–22 season. The club's principal partner and primary shirt sponsor is American financial services company StoneX. The replica kit featured the logo of the Saracens Foundation, a charity operated by the club and £5 of proceeds from each jersey are donated to the foundation.
Recent kit designs
The following graphics represent the designs of the Saracens playing kit between 2006 and 2017:
Summary of kit manufacturers and sponsors
The following organisations have manufactured and sponsored the Saracens playing kit since the 1996–97 season:
Notable players
Rugby World Cup
The following players have been selected to represent their national teams at the Rugby World Cup while at Saracens:
Tournament winners are listed in bold
Club captains
The following players have held the position of Saracens Women club captain since it was established in 1989:
International players
The following Saracens Women players, past and present, have represented their respective national test or sevens teams during their rugby union career:
Current squad members, as of the 2026–27 season, are listed in bold
Finals XVs
The following graphics show the starting line-ups for Saracens in all seven of the club's Premiership Women's Rugby Final appearances:
The following graphics show the starting line-ups for Saracens in all three of the club's PWR Cup Final appearances:
Personnel honours and records
World Rugby Awards
The following Saracens players have earned recognition at the World Rugby Awards (presented annually since 2001):
Six Nations Championship Awards
The following players have been named in the Women's Six Nations Player of the Championship or Team of the Championship shortlists while at Saracens:
Premiership Women's Rugby Awards
The following Saracens players have been named in the annual Premiership Women's Rugby awards:
Top scorers
The following lists denote the top try scorers and top point scorers for Saracens in recent Women's Premiership and Premiership Women's Rugby seasons:
Industry awards
The following Saracens players have achieved recognition at the annual RPA Awards:
The following Saracens players have earned recognition at the annual Rugby Black List Awards, which launched in 2023:
End-of-season club awards
The following Saracens players have earned recognition at the club's annual Big Bash end-of-season awards:
The following players have been named the Saracens Player of the Month (awarded since 2021):
Season summaries
Gold background denotes championsSilver background denotes runners-upPink background denotes relegated