In more XVs news, USA Club D1 saw no changes from last week, D2 had two lead changes with San Antonio replacing Little Rock in Red River and Knoxville replacing Chattanooga in True South. Gloucester-Hartpury’s unbeaten streak came to an end after the Saracens toppled them 36-27 and Exeter took over as leader of Allianz Premier. Railway continues to lead Ireland’s Energia AIL Cup, Chiefs Manawa leads after week one of Super Rugby Aupiki, the Black Pearls remain undefeated in Uganda’s Central League, Bourdeaux continues to lead France’s Elite 1, and Natixis Ice won the Nan Fun Group | Sewitt Premiership in Hong Kong.

In 7s news, Vancouver hosts the next HSBC 7s Series stop this weekend, South Africa went undefeated and held all teams scoreless in Hermanus 7s and USA’s CRC 7s shares progress on qualifiers across the country.

We close out the week with 16 features and 4 media.

Read everything at https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2023/02/27/womens-rugby-news-for-feb-20-26/ and become a supporter of our site at https://www.patreon.com/yscrugby.

tl;dr: Women’s Rugby in 60 secs for Feb 20-26 saw Spain win their 10th European Championship while Spain, USA, South Africa and Canada are in talks about a tournament in late March or early April.