Women's rugby XV
Spain's women's rugby XV national team wins its seventh European championship watched by a record-breaking crowd for a women's match
Spain's women's rugby XV national team was proclaimed European champion for the fourth consecutive year. The match played in Madrid attracted the biggest crowd ever to attend a women's rugby match in Spain, with an audience of 8,900.
Women's sport in Spain is going from strength to strength. The women's rugby XV national team won their seventh European championship and has repeated the achievement four years in a row. Nicknamed as The Lionesses, they beat Holland easily (54-0) in a match that will go down in for being the women's rugby match with the most spectators in Spain.
The 8,900 fans who came along to Complutense National Stadium to enjoy the game are an unmistakeable sign of the continual growth in women's national sport. Iberdrola is continuing to support Spanish women's sport in general, and rugby in particular, supporting the rugby XV national team and lending its name to the national league of clubs.
Iberdrola supports women's rugby for another year
Iberdrola, supporting women's rugby.
The Iberdrola Rugby League 2018-2019 was presented at the headquarters of the National Sports Council (CSD) in a ceremony attended by María José Rienda, president of the CSD; Juan José García Luna, vice-president of the Spanish Rugby Federation (FER); and Noelia Florín de Oro, representing Iberdrola's sponsorship team. Members of the eight teams that make up the new Iberdrola Rugby League attended the presentation.
New for the 2018/19 season was that in addition to the regular matches — which are played in 14 rounds with home and away games —, there will be a final play-off between the top four teams: the first placed team playing the fourth and the second against the third.
Recognition for Iberdrola's support for women's rugby XV
The company's support for Spanish women's rugby has been recognised at different levels. Isabel Pérez, vice president of the Spanish Rugby Federation, acknowledged that Iberdrola's support since 2017 "allows us to consolidate a League with 8 teams and 14 rounds, which helps to increase the level of skill, and this will have an impact on the national team. In addition, we want it to be and we are sure that it will be a mirror for grassroots rugby”.
Iberdrola's agreement with the Spanish Rugby Federation involves the creation of the Iberdrola Lionesses awards, which recognise the most valued player in each round of matches.
Iberdrola, with the spanish national women's rugby XV team
The agreement between Iberdrola and the Spanish Rugby Federation includes the national women's rugby XV team, nicknamed the The Lionesses, which are the current European Champion.
This, therefore, means providing fundamental support to achieve the objectives of Project 2021. The aim of the project is to conduct a study during the first few years and reorganise the team, preparing a specific line-up during the last two years for the upcoming world cup classifying rounds
'The Lionesses' during training. Video voice transcription (Spanish version) [PDF] External link, opens in new window.
