England, Scotland, Eire and Wales have gained management of their autumn fixtures as a part of World Rugby’s alterations to the ladies’s international calendar.

The brand new WXV International Sequence, which can exchange the WXV competitors, will run from 2026-2028 and have the highest 12 groups on the planet.

Searching for to construct on the success of the Girls’s Rugby World Cup in England, nationwide federations and unions will be capable of select their very own residence and away video games in September and October.

Alongside every of the house nations, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and america qualify as the highest 12 sides.

These 12 nations are locked in to the WXV International Sequence till the following Rugby World Cup in 2029.

Either side will obtain the identical amount of cash from World Rugby to compete within the fixtures regardless of what number of Assessments they select to play.

Fixtures will likely be introduced by every nation after the World Cup.

“That is actually vital within the context of [breakaway league] R360 and different competitions which can be being mentioned as we have to give the nationwide federations, gamers and followers certainty,” World Rugby chief govt Alan Gilpin mentioned.

“This enables that certainty over a four-year cycle that permits the nationwide federations and unions to go and have these conversations [on contracts] with the participant teams. It’s a actually vital milestone.”

Groups ranked 13-18, who World Rugby describe as going through larger “monetary challenges”, will play their fixtures in a single vacation spot in 2026 and 2028, funded by the worldwide governing physique.

These groups are Brazil, Fiji, Hong Kong China, the Netherlands, Samoa and Spain.

This implies WXV – a three-tier competitors launched in 2023 to produce extra significant video games earlier than the World Cup – will not run.

BBC Sport understands the highest 12 sides will play between 9-16 Assessments in a calendar 12 months, outdoors of World Cup years, with a most of six Assessments.

The entire of video games will embody fixtures performed by residence nations in 2027 when additionally they present gamers for the primary British and Irish Lions ladies’s tour to New Zealand.

World Rugby says there will likely be over 100 video games throughout the three-year International Sequence competitors and £9m will likely be invested, which is hoped will construct on the World Cup in England that has seen document viewing figures and the ultimate at Twickenham on 27 September offered out.

“The launch of the WXV International Sequence marks one other landmark second for the ladies’s recreation, following what will likely be an era-defining Girls’s Rugby World Cup in England,” World Rugby chairman Brett Robinson added.

“It delivers on our dedication to lift requirements, present constant and aggressive fixtures, a transparent worldwide calendar that prioritises welfare, and create sustainable business outcomes for the ladies’s recreation globally.”

In 2023, World Rugby introduced a new males’s competitors beginning in 2026 made up of 24 groups, break up into two divisions.