Women’s Match Preview: Cardiff (A)

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Wigan Warriors Women’s 2023 Betfred Challenge Cup group stage opener against Cardiff Demons. The Warriors Women face the Demons at the University of Cardiff on Sunday 23rd April (2pm K.O.).

The Betfred Women’s Challenge Cup Group stages get started this weekend as the Warriors travel to South Wales to take on Cardiff Demons in game one of the group stages (2pm K.O.) The fixture will be the first meeting between the two sides in any competition.

The other two group games for Wigan will see them face Featherstone Rovers away from home before welcoming Salford Red Devils to Robin Park Arena.

Squad News

The Warriors have named their travelling squad to head to Cardiff on Sunday.

Women’s squad to face Cardiff:

Pre-match Quotes

Speaking to wiganwarriors.com ahead of the game, Women’s Captain Rachel Thompson said: “We’re lucky enough to have Carys (Marsh) who plays for Wales in our team and she knows the capabilities of a lot of that Cardiff team. By no means are we underestimating them at all, they’ve got some excellent players who we might not have come up against before but we’ve seen them play internationally. It’s going to be a really tough game, potentially our toughest game of the Group stages so we aren’t going into it lightly, we know we’re going to have to be at our best to beat them.”

She added: “We can’t go into any of these games thinking that we’re going to win. Featherstone showed us last year that they won’t go down without a fight, they knocked us out of the Cup competition at the group stages and we don’t want to do that again, we don’t want to be in that position.

“We’ve got to take every game as important as the other because Wembley is on the cards for one of the biggest prizes in Rugby League and to walk out at Wembley would be massive for our team and our Club. We’ve got to give it our all for the whole of the Challenge Cup Group Stages and hopefully we can get ourselves a semi-final spot.”

Ticket info

Supporters wishing to make the trip to the University of Cardiff (CF3 4JN) can do so. Free parking is available on site, though limited and entry will cost £3 or Free for U16s.

Watch Live

Supporters can also watch the game live on the OurLeague app!

Match Highlights

Full match and match highlights from the game will be on Wigan TV following the game early next week. Not a subscriber? Join today from £5.99 per month HERE.

Social Media

Wigan fans can follow every piece of the action via our social media channels and website.

• Twitter (@WiganWarriorsRL) – half time and full time updates.
• Instagram (@wiganwarriorsrl) – half time and full time updates.
• Facebook (Wigan Warriors) – half time and full time updates.
• Website (www.wiganwarriors.com) – post-match reaction including a match report.