Leeds is on course to set an attendance record for women's rugby at this year's Rugby League World Cup. Headingley will host the first game of the women's tournament on November 1, when England host Brazil in West Yorkshire.
That game is now well on track to set the all-time record for a crowd watching a standalone fixture of women's rugby in either code. The existing record is the 15,862 that watched England play Ireland in Leicester at the Six Nations earlier this year, but tournament organisers are confident that figure could now be surpassed in a few months' time.
That means the match at Headingley will not only smash a women's rugby league attendance record, but a rugby attendance record across both codes, a major boost for the profile of the women's World Cup as the women's game takes its biggest and boldest step forward yet.
