Red Roses Rugby Team: England Women's Side Explained

On 27 September 2025 a crowd of 81,885 watched England beat Canada 33-13 at Twickenham to win the Women's Rugby World Cup. No women's rugby match anywhere had drawn more people. The side that won it is the England women's senior fifteen-a-side rugby union team, which the Rugby Football Union selects, coaches and pays, and which goes by a name the men's team has never needed: the Red Roses.

That is the whole definition. Red Roses means the senior England women's XV and nothing else, and the name comes from the red rose stitched on the left breast of every England rugby shirt. The team played its first international in 1987, has been world champion three times (1994, 2014 and 2025), had won the Women's Six Nations 22 times by the end of the 2026 championship, and has sat at the top of World Rugby's women's rankings since November 2020. The rest of this page explains how the side is organised, where it plays, who built it and how it differs from the men's team that shares its badge.

Who the Red Roses are and which England teams the name leaves out

Three England women's teams play rugby union under the RFU. Only one of them is the Red Roses.

The name belongs to the senior fifteen-a-side Test team: the side that contests the Women's Six Nations each spring, plays capped internationals in the autumn and goes to a World Cup every four years. A player who takes the field for that team wins a full England cap, and the caps, tries and points records discussed further down this page are counted from those matches only.

The sevens players are a separate group. England has fielded a women's sevens side for years, and at the Commonwealth Games it still appears as England, but on the world series and at the Olympic Games the home unions now pool their players into a Great Britain squad. A sevens appearance carries no fifteen-a-side cap, and a Great Britain sevens player is not a Red Rose unless she has also played Test rugby in the longer format. Several have done both. The formats are distinct enough that the RFU runs them as different programmes with different staff, and our guide to rugby sevens and England's programme sets out how.

The under-20s are the third team. They are England Women Under-20s, a development side with its own coaches and its own fixtures, and their matches are not full internationals. Nor are the games played by an England A or development fifteen, which exists to give uncapped players a look at a higher level before selection proper.

So the boundary is tidy. Senior, fifteen-a-side, capped. Everything else that wears the rose is England, but it is not the Red Roses.

One more point of scope, because it confuses people every Olympic summer. There is no Great Britain women's fifteen-a-side team in regular competition. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland each field their own Test side, as the men do, and they come together only for the British and Irish Lions, whose women's team was created to make its first tour to New Zealand in 2027.

Where the Red Roses name comes from

The rose came first, by more than a century. England's men wore a red rose on a white shirt in the first international ever played, against Scotland in Edinburgh in 1871, and the emblem has been on the shirt ever since. Nobody at the RFU can produce a minute recording why it was chosen. The usual explanations point to the Tudor rose and the red rose of Lancaster as royal and national symbols, and to Rugby School, which educated several of the union's founders and whose crest is one of the suggested sources. None of that is proven, and the honest position is that the origin of the men's badge is tradition with a few plausible theories attached.

The women's team took a slightly winding route to the same badge. Under the bodies that ran the women's game before the RFU did, England women wore a rose of their own design. In 2009, as the women's union moved towards integration with the RFU, the England women's teams adopted the same rose as the men.

The name followed the badge. The 2014 world champions were, in the RFU's own programmes and press releases, England Women. By the 2017 World Cup the union was calling the team the Red Roses as a matter of course, and the name has been its formal identity since. This page does not give a launch date, because we could not confirm one and a guessed year would be worse than none.

Why the RFU wanted a separate brand

"England Women" defines a team by reference to another one. That was the problem the name was meant to solve. A side with its own title can have its own sponsors, its own ticketing campaigns, its own social media accounts and its own merchandise range, none of which has to be explained as the female version of something else. The RFU has since sold commercial partnerships that attach specifically to the Red Roses, which would be awkward to do for a team with no name.

There is a counter-argument, and it deserves a hearing. Some former players have said they were proud to play for plain England and that a nickname, however well meant, marks the women's side as a variant. The southern hemisphere does it the other way round: New Zealand's men are the All Blacks and the women the Black Ferns, Australia has the Wallabies and the Wallaroos, and nobody thinks either women's name is a demotion. The difference in England is that only one of the two teams has a nickname at all.

Why the men's side has no equivalent

Because it never needed one. The men's team has been "England" for a century and a half, and the name of the country is the strongest brand a national side can have. The RFU has used nicknames elsewhere in its structure, most obviously the Saxons for the men's second team, but nothing has ever stuck to the senior men. Call it an accident of history that has become an advantage for the women: when a broadcaster says "the Red Roses", there is no ambiguity about which team is meant.

How the team is organised: head coach, contracts and captaincy

The RFU employs a head coach for the Red Roses in the same way it employs one for the men. Gary Street held the post from 2007 to 2015 and delivered the 2014 World Cup. Simon Middleton followed him from 2015 to 2023, a period that took in the move to full-time contracts and two lost World Cup finals. John Mitchell, a New Zealander who had previously been the All Blacks' head coach and an assistant with the England men, was appointed in 2023 and was in charge for the 2025 title.

Around the head coach sits a staff that would be recognisable to anyone who follows the men's set-up: assistant coaches for attack, defence and the forwards, strength and conditioning staff, analysts, doctors and physiotherapists. The scale is smaller. The functions are the same.

The central contract

In January 2019 the RFU put 28 fifteen-a-side players on full-time contracts. It was not the union's first attempt. A group of fifteens players had been contracted for the season leading into the 2017 World Cup, and those deals were allowed to lapse afterwards while the money went to sevens. The 2019 contracts were the ones that lasted, and the contracted group has grown since. What matters structurally is who holds the paper: the contract is with the RFU, not with a club.

That is the reverse of the men's arrangement, where a player's employer is his club and England's access to him is negotiated through an agreement between the union and the league. A Red Rose's primary employer is the union. She also signs for a club in Premiership Women's Rugby, the top domestic league, and plays for that club whenever she is not in an England camp. Her week therefore has two masters, but one of them pays most of the wage and has first call on her time.

The practical effect is that the England head coach can manage a player's training load, rest and rehabilitation across the whole year. Club coaches plan around international windows in which their best players disappear. Nobody pretends the arrangement is painless for the clubs. It is, though, the single biggest structural reason England have been harder to beat than nations whose players are contracted part-time or not at all.

How the captain is chosen

The captain is the head coach's appointment, announced with a squad and held until the coach decides otherwise. There is no vote and no fixed term. Sarah Hunter led the side through the 2017 and 2021 World Cups, Marlie Packer took over after Hunter retired in 2023, and Zoe Aldcroft was given the job at the start of 2025 and lifted the trophy that September. The armband passed on again for the 2026 Six Nations, when Meg Jones led the team.

1. 1AutumnInternational window. England camp, capped Tests or a global tournament. The club plays on without her or the league pauses.
2. 2WinterClub block. She returns to her Premiership Women's Rugby side for league rounds, with England monitoring her training load.
3. 3SpringWomen's Six Nations. Five Tests in a stand-alone window, with the RFU holding the squad in camp between rounds.
4. 4Late springClub run-in. League rounds and the play-offs, which is where club and country schedules press hardest against each other.
5. 5SummerRest and pre-season, managed by the RFU for contracted players. In a World Cup year this becomes the tournament camp.

A simplified picture of how a centrally contracted player's time is divided. Exact dates move each season and are set by the RFU, Six Nations Rugby, World Rugby and Premiership Women's Rugby.

What an England year looks like from spring to autumn

A Red Roses season has two fixed points and one that comes round every fourth year.

The first is the Women's Six Nations. It is played as a single round robin against France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales, five matches in all, with home and away alternating from year to year. Since 2021 the tournament has had its own spring window after the men's championship has finished, which gives it clear weekends and its own television slots. The dates inside that window have moved: some editions began in late March, and the 2026 championship did not start until 11 April. The format, the bonus points and England's record in it are covered in our guide to the Red Roses in the Women's Six Nations.

The second is the autumn. This is the part of the calendar that has changed most. For years it meant a handful of home Tests in November against whichever touring sides the RFU could arrange. In 2023 World Rugby launched WXV, a three-tier competition with each division played in a single host country in the autumn, and England won its top division in both 2023 and 2024. World Rugby has since reworked its global calendar again, and the safest description of an England autumn is this: three or four Tests against the strongest sides outside Europe, some of them at home, in a competition whose name and format should not be assumed to be permanent.

Then there is the World Cup. It is held every four years, the most recent in England in 2025, and it reorganises everything around it. In a World Cup year the summer becomes a long training camp, warm-up Tests are added, and the domestic league moves its own dates to make room.

Part of the year	What England play	Who organises it
Spring, after the men's championship	Women's Six Nations, five Tests	Six Nations Rugby
September to November	Capped Tests and World Rugby's global competition	World Rugby and the RFU
Every fourth year	Women's Rugby World Cup	World Rugby
The remaining months	League and cup matches for the player's club	Premiership Women's Rugby
Before a tournament	Warm-up Tests, usually against European opposition	The RFU and the visiting union

A regular year therefore gives a first-choice player somewhere between eight and a dozen Tests. A World Cup year gives her more, since the tournament alone is six matches for a finalist. Compare that with the men, who play five Six Nations matches, a summer tour and an autumn series most years, and the totals are closer than they used to be. What differs is the opposition. England's women meet New Zealand and Canada far less often than the men meet South Africa or New Zealand, which is part of why those fixtures carry so much weight when they arrive.

Where the Red Roses play their home matches

There is no home ground. The RFU decides match by match.

For most of the team's history that meant small venues. Through the 2000s and into the 2010s England women played Six Nations matches at club grounds such as Esher in Surrey and at the Twickenham Stoop, Harlequins' ground across the road from the national stadium. When they did appear at Twickenham itself it was as the second half of a double-header, kicking off after a men's international in front of whoever had stayed behind.

Two things changed. From the late 2010s the RFU began taking fixtures out of the south-east on purpose, to Castle Park in Doncaster, Sandy Park in Exeter, Kingston Park in Newcastle, Kingsholm in Gloucester, Welford Road in Leicester, Franklin's Gardens in Northampton and Ashton Gate in Bristol. The reasoning was commercial as much as missionary: a ground of ten to twenty-five thousand can be filled, a full ground looks and sounds like an event, and each new city adds a local audience that had never been offered a Red Roses match within driving distance.

The second change came on 29 April 2023, when England played France at Twickenham in a stand-alone fixture, with no men's match attached, for the first time. The Grand Slam was at stake, England won 38-33, and 58,498 people came. It was then the largest crowd recorded for a women's rugby international. Twickenham has been part of the rotation ever since, used for the fixture in each campaign most likely to carry it.

The 2025 World Cup followed the same touring logic on a bigger scale. England opened against the United States at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, played pool matches in Northampton and Brighton, went to Bristol for the quarter-final and semi-final, and reached Twickenham only for the final. Practical detail on the national stadium itself, including transport and seating, is in our guide to Twickenham, and almost all of it applies equally to a women's Test.

A note on the name. The stadium has carried a sponsor's title, Allianz Stadium, since 2024. Supporters, signposts and this page still call it Twickenham.

The honours list: three World Cups and a Six Nations habit

England have reached nine of the ten Women's Rugby World Cup finals played. They have won three.

World Cup	Final opponent	Score	Result	Venue
1991	United States	6-19	Lost	Cardiff Arms Park
1994	United States	38-23	Won	Raeburn Place, Edinburgh
2002	New Zealand	9-19	Lost	Olympic Stadium, Barcelona
2006	New Zealand	17-25	Lost	Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton
2010	New Zealand	10-13	Lost	Twickenham Stoop
2014	Canada	21-9	Won	Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris
2017	New Zealand	32-41	Lost	Kingspan Stadium, Belfast
2021, played in 2022	New Zealand	31-34	Lost	Eden Park, Auckland
2025	Canada	33-13	Won	Twickenham

The only tournament in which England did not reach the final was 1998, when New Zealand beat them in the semi-final in Amsterdam. Read the table for what it says about New Zealand: five of England's six lost finals were against the Black Ferns, and England have never beaten them in one. Each campaign is told in full in our history of England at the Women's Rugby World Cup.

The European record is of a different order. Counting from the first Home Nations championship in 1996 through its expansion to five and then six teams, England had won the title 22 times by the end of the 2026 tournament, 20 of them as Grand Slams with every match won. The most recent eight came consecutively, from 2019 to 2026. Those totals move every spring, and the 2026 figures are the ones this page can vouch for.

• 3World Cup titles
• 9World Cup finals reached
• 22Six Nations titles
• 20Grand Slams

Totals at the end of the 2026 Women's Six Nations. Six Nations figures count the championship from its first season as a Home Nations tournament in 1996.

Two further entries belong here. England won the top tier of WXV in both of the seasons they contested it, 2023 and 2024. And they have been ranked first in the world without interruption since November 2020, a spell that survived losing the World Cup final in 2022 because the ranking rewards results across the whole cycle and England lost almost nothing else.

A fair reading of the honours list is that the Six Nations titles show how much better resourced England have been than their neighbours, and the World Cups show how they have fared against equals. Three from nine is a good record. It is not the record of a team that wins everything.

The winning runs and the matches that ended them

The longest winning sequences in Test rugby, men's or women's, belong to this team.

The first great run began in the autumn of 2019. England had lost to New Zealand in San Diego that July, at the end of a summer tournament in California, and then did not lose again for more than three years. They won in France that November. They won every Six Nations match of 2020, 2021 and 2022. They beat New Zealand twice in the autumn of 2021 by margins that startled both countries. By the time they walked out at Eden Park for the World Cup final on 12 November 2022 they had won 30 Tests in a row, which was a record for any international side.

It ended there. England led early, lost wing Lydia Thompson to a red card in the eighteenth minute, played more than an hour with fourteen and were still ahead going into the last ten minutes. New Zealand scored through Ayesha Leti-I'iga to lead 34-31. England kicked a late penalty to the corner for a lineout five metres out, the same driving maul that had produced tries all evening, and New Zealand stole the throw. Thirty wins, then the one defeat that mattered most.

The second run

England started again the following spring. The opening match of the 2023 Six Nations, against Scotland at Kingston Park in Newcastle, was Sarah Hunter's last Test and the first win of a new sequence. It ran through three Grand Slams, both WXV titles, three wins over New Zealand and the World Cup warm-ups. During the 2025 tournament it passed 30 and became the new record, and the final against Canada was the 33rd consecutive victory.

The run did not stop with the World Cup. England won all five matches of the 2026 Six Nations, so the sequence was still alive at the end of that championship. No figure is printed for it here because the number is out of date the moment England play again.

How do you account for runs like these? Money is the first answer, and it is true as far as it goes: England professionalised earlier and more completely than anyone else. But France and New Zealand have professional squads too, and England kept beating them. The less comfortable explanation for rivals is depth. England's second-choice pack would start for most other nations, which means injuries, rotation and tired legs cost them less than they cost everyone else. A long winning run is mostly a measure of how good a team is on its ordinary days.

The rivalry that bookends both sequences has a page of its own: England against New Zealand in women's rugby.

The players who defined each era

The volunteers, 1987 to the late 1990s

Carol Isherwood captained England in the first international and then spent decades as an administrator of the women's game. Karen Almond, a fly-half who ran matches with her boot, led the side in both the 1991 and 1994 finals. Gill Burns, a number eight from Waterloo, played from the late 1980s into the 2000s and captained the team in between. Hooker Nicky Ponsford and scrum-half Emma Mitchell were part of the 1994 side, as was Giselle Mather, who went on to coach in the men's and women's club game.

Every one of them paid to play. Players bought their own kit, covered their own travel and took unpaid leave for tournaments. The 1994 World Cup was won by amateurs with day jobs, who trained in the evenings and funded the trip to Edinburgh largely themselves.

The long near-miss, 2002 to 2010

Three finals lost to New Zealand produced some of England's most admired players. Sue Day scored 61 tries from wing and centre, a total that was still the England record at the end of the 2026 Six Nations, though players in the present squad have closed to within a handful of it. Maggie Alphonsi, an openside flanker from Saracens, tackled with a ferocity that made her the best-known women's player in the country and one of the first to cross into mainstream sports coverage. Prop Rochelle Clark, known as Rocky, began a career that would eventually reach 137 caps. Catherine Spencer captained the 2010 side that lost by three points at the Stoop.

The 2014 champions

Katy Daley-McLean, a primary school teacher from South Shields, captained from fly-half. Emily Scarratt scored 16 of England's 21 points in the final. Danielle Waterman scored the other try. Marlie Packer was working as a plumber. Within weeks of the win the RFU announced its first professional contracts for women, though they were for sevens players preparing for the 2016 Olympics, and several world champions switched formats to take them.

The professionals

Sarah Hunter retired in 2023 with 141 caps, the England record. Scarratt retired after the 2025 World Cup with 754 points, also the record, and 119 caps. Around them came a generation that has never known the amateur game as adults: Zoe Aldcroft, a lock who was World Rugby's player of the year in 2021; Packer, who won the same award in 2023; full-back Ellie Kildunne, who won it in 2024; Zoe Harrison, who kicked four conversions in the 2025 final; and Alex Matthews, who scored twice in that final and is one of a very small group with winners' medals from both 2014 and 2025.

Record	Holder	Figure
Most caps	Sarah Hunter	141
Second-most caps	Rochelle Clark	137
Most points	Emily Scarratt	754
Second-most points	Katy Daley-McLean	542
Most tries	Sue Day	61

All five figures are as they stood at the end of the 2026 Six Nations. Hunter's, Clark's, Scarratt's and Daley-McLean's totals are final because those players have retired. Day's try record is the one under threat.

Caps, heritage numbers and how a squad is named

A cap is awarded for taking the field in a match the RFU designates as a full international. Starting is not required. A replacement who comes on for the last two minutes is capped; a replacement who stays on the bench for eighty minutes is not, and may wait months for another chance. Matches played by England A, the under-20s or a sevens side do not count, whatever the opposition.

The first cap is treated as an occasion. The debutant is presented with a physical cap, usually by a senior player or a former international, in front of the squad. The velvet cap itself is a nineteenth-century schoolboy custom that English rugby never dropped, and the women's team inherited it along with the badge. Players from the volunteer era, many of whom were never given one at the time, have since been presented with theirs by the RFU.

Each Red Rose also has a heritage number. The principle is simple: every player to have won a cap is numbered in order of debut, starting with the fifteen who began the match at Pontypool Park in 1987 and running up through every debutant since. The number is hers permanently, and it places her in a line that now runs to well over two hundred players. The men's team uses the same system, counted from 1871, which is why a men's number is four digits long and a women's number three. The general rules on caps are set out in more detail in our explainer on England caps and debuts, written from the men's side but equally applicable here.

How a squad announcement works

There are two announcements, and they are often confused.

The first is the training squad, named by the head coach ahead of each international window. It usually contains more than thirty players, which is more than can be used in any one match, and it mixes the contracted group with a few uncapped club players invited in to be assessed. Being named in it earns nothing in itself.

The second is the matchday twenty-three: fifteen starters and eight replacements, numbered 1 to 23, announced a couple of days before each Test. That list is the one that matters, because only those players can win a cap that weekend. Players left out are normally released back to their clubs if the league has a round on.

Crowds and coverage: from a few thousand to a full Twickenham

When England hosted the World Cup in 2010, the pool matches were played at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, a university sports ground, and the final at the Twickenham Stoop drew a little over thirteen thousand. That was considered a triumph, and it was. Home Six Nations matches in the same period were watched by crowds in the low thousands.

The growth since has come in steps, each tied to a decision. Moving matches to club stadiums around the country produced crowds of ten thousand and more by the end of the 2010s. In April 2022 a Six Nations match against Ireland at Welford Road drew just under sixteen thousand, then a home record for a stand-alone fixture. A year later came the 58,498 at Twickenham against France. And then the World Cup: 42,723 for the opening night in Sunderland and 81,885 for the final.

World Cup final, Eden Park, November 202242579spectators

England v France, Twickenham, April 202358498spectators

World Cup opener, Sunderland, August 202542723spectators

World Cup final, Twickenham, September 202581885spectators

Attendances at four fifteen-a-side women's internationals involving England. The Eden Park and both Twickenham figures were each a world record for a women's Test when set.

Show the numbers

Record crowds on the way to a sold-out Twickenham

Item	Value
World Cup final, Eden Park, November 2022	42579spectators
England v France, Twickenham, April 2023	58498spectators
World Cup opener, Sunderland, August 2025	42723spectators
World Cup final, Twickenham, September 2025	81885spectators

The momentum carried into the following spring. On 11 April 2026 the opening match of the Six Nations, against Ireland at Twickenham, drew 77,120, a record for the championship.

Television followed the same curve. For years coverage was patchy: a stream here, a highlights package there, an occasional live match on subscription television. The Women's Six Nations then moved to free-to-air coverage, every match of the 2025 World Cup was shown free-to-air in the UK, and the final drew a reported peak audience of 5.8 million. Free-to-air matters more for this team than for the men's. A sport building an audience needs to be stumbled upon, and nobody stumbles upon a subscription channel.

A caution is due. One sold-out final does not make a weekly habit, and club crowds in the domestic league remain a small fraction of these figures. The international game has found its audience. The club game is still looking.

The origins: Pontypool Park in 1987 and the unions before the RFU

Women were playing organised rugby at British universities by the late 1970s, largely ignored by the unions that ran the men's game. In 1983 a dozen clubs, most of them university sides, founded the Women's Rugby Football Union to run a league and a cup. It covered the whole of Britain, and for its first years international rugby was played by a Great Britain team, which met France at the Richmond Athletic Ground in April 1986 and lost 14-8.

England's first match came a year later. On 5 April 1987, at Pontypool Park in South Wales, England beat Wales 22-4, with a try then worth four points. That is the fixture every England women's record is counted from.

1. 11983The Women's Rugby Football Union is founded by twelve clubs to run the women's game across Britain.
2. 21986A Great Britain team plays France at Richmond, the first women's international on British soil.
3. 31987England play their first international, beating Wales 22-4 at Pontypool Park.
4. 41994With Ireland and Scotland having formed their own unions, the Rugby Football Union for Women takes over the game in England.
5. 52010The RFUW becomes a constituent body of the RFU, keeping much of its independence.
6. 6After 2010The two organisations are merged into a single governing body, and the women's game is run from Twickenham.

The governing bodies that have run the England women's team. The final integration was a staged process and sources date its completion differently.

The volunteers did more than keep a team going. Four women from Richmond organised the first Women's Rugby World Cup in South Wales in 1991 without the blessing of the International Rugby Board and with almost no money, and England reached the final. Three years later England won the second tournament. Both were run by players and their friends.

The RFU's part in this early history is not flattering, and there is no point dressing it up. For the women's game's first quarter of a century in England the union that owned Twickenham neither funded nor governed it. The Rugby Football Union for Women, formed in 1994 when the Scottish and Irish players had set up their own unions, was a separate body with its own officers and its own shoestring budget. Integration came in stages, with the RFUW becoming a constituent body of the RFU in 2010 and the two being merged fully afterwards. The fuller story is in our history of women's rugby in England.

Red Roses and the England men's side compared

One union, one law book, one stadium. A Red Roses Test is played over eighty minutes with a size 5 ball under exactly the same World Rugby laws as a men's Test, with the same scoring, the same twenty-three-player matchday squad and the same disciplinary process. Anyone who claims the women play a modified game is thinking of another sport.

The differences are in how the two teams are built and scheduled.

	Red Roses	England men
Formal name	Red Roses	England
First international	1987, v Wales at Pontypool Park	1871, v Scotland at Raeburn Place
World Cup titles	Three: 1994, 2014, 2025	One: 2003
Main employer of the players	The RFU, through central contracts	The clubs, with RFU contracts for a core group
Six Nations window	Spring, after the men's tournament ends	February and March
Home venue	Twickenham and club grounds around England	Twickenham
Governing body	Rugby Football Union	Rugby Football Union

A coincidence in that table is worth pausing on. Raeburn Place in Edinburgh, where the England men played the first rugby international of all in 1871, is the ground where the England women won their first World Cup 123 years later.

The contract row is the one with consequences. The men's team has spent the professional era arguing with the clubs over player release, rest periods and who pays for injuries, and the settlement has been renegotiated repeatedly. The women's team was professionalised from the centre, so the union set the terms and the clubs fitted around them. That gave England's women a coherence the men have often lacked. It also left the women's clubs weaker than the men's, dependent on the union's money and short of stars for a good part of each season.

History runs in opposite directions too. The men's side had 116 years of internationals behind it before the women played their first, and for much of that time it was among the strongest in the world. In the professional era the positions have reversed: the men have one World Cup and a patchy Six Nations record, and the women have been the dominant side in Europe for most of two decades. Wider coverage of both teams sits on our rugby pages, and the rest of our guides for readers in England are gathered on the England hub.

What the two sides share is the shirt. White, with a red rose. The men have never been called anything but England. The women have a name for it.