Women Reggae Warriors to face Scotland and England Community Lions

Jamaica vs USA 2024, World Cup Qualifiers

Jamaica Women have lined up two test matches in the autumn against England Community Lions and Scotland. In their first game, they take on the Lions at Pilkington Recs, St Helens, on Saturday, October 25, 2:00 kick-off. Then, on November 1^st, the team faces Scotland in wat will be their 4th ever senior international. That game will be played at Featherstone’s Millpond Stadium,12pm kick-off.

For Jamaica, the tournament will mark the end of their debut year for women’s Rugby League after efforts over several years to launch a women’s side have finally come to fruition. Further fixtures are due to be announced. 

Jamaica players based in the UK at a training session at Featherstone Lions in Wakefield, 2025.

Team Jamaican will be made up mostly of heritage players from the UK as part the Rugby League Jamaica’s strategy to widen their available playing pool as they look towards competing for future World Cup qualification and building the strength of the national programme. It also coincides with their strategic direction to provide play 2-4 internationals per year.

Jamaica Director of Rugby Romeo Monteith said: “We continue to build on our strategy to provide representative opportunities to both domestic and heritage players, the game against and the Lions will prove to be both transformative and inspirational. We expect to see many more Jamaica eligible players living in the UK put their hand up, and this can only make our program better.” 

Jamaica lost to the USA in last November’s Americas Championships in Florida, with the home nation then playing Canada for a place at October’s World Series in Toronto. 

With the men’s, women’s, and wheelchair World Cups to then be staged separately, the next women’s World Cup will be played in 2028 and Jamaica are working towards securing a spot. 

“A lot of hard work has gone on in the background after the game against USA to identify more Jamaica players based in the UK and as a result, these fixtures are possible,” Jamaica UK Lead Coach Darren Collins said. 

“The ladies are looking forward to making history, especially for the full international against Scotland. We’ve a great balance of youth and experience from both rugby league and union, for the girls it’s a great opportunity to represent their heritage.”