Welcome to the top women's rugby news in under 60 seconds for May 9-15. The next decade of Rugby World Cup hosts have been announced with England taking the reins in 2025 (women's), Australia in 2027 (men's) and 2029 (women's) and USA in 2031 (men's) and 2033 (women's). This exciting news is only made better since we have a World Cup this year in New Zealand (women’s) and France is hosting in 2023 (men’s). Coupling all of this with the debut of a new global women’s competition WXV in 2023 and the expansion of the 2025 RWC to 16 teams, rugby’s growth is about to explode.

In domestic XVs news, the Allianz Premier and France’s Elite 1 semi-finals are set for May 22 and 28th respectively. Life West and Colorado lead the USA's WPL and DHL Western continues to lead South Africa's Premier Division.

We close out the week with 15 features and 4 media.

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tl;dr: Women's Rugby in 60 secs for May 9-15 saw World Rugby announce the next 5 hosts of the Rugby World Cup. England in 2025, Australia in 2027 and 2029 and the United States in 2031 and 2033.