It replaced the All-Ireland Club Championships as the top level women's field hockey competition in Ireland.

[1] Loreto, with a team that included Nikki Symmons, Lizzie Colvin, Hannah Matthews and Alison Meeke, won the inaugural title.

In the league final they defeated a Hermes team that included Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan, Gillian Pinder and Chloe Watkins.

In 2009–10, with a team that included Cecelia and Isobel Joyce, Emer Lucey, Nicola Evans and Kate McKenna, Railway Union won their first title.

[8][9] UCD won their first title in 2013–14 with a squad that included Katie Mullan, Gillian Pinder, Deirdre Duke, Nicola Evans, Anna O'Flanagan and Emily Beatty.

The pool stages were abandoned and replaced with a full league programme consisting of 18 rounds of home and away matches.

[18][19] UCD subsequently completed a treble when they also won the EY Champions Trophy after defeating Hermes-Monkstown in a penalty shoot-out.

The top three placed teams from the league and/or the winners of the Irish Senior Cup all qualify for the end of season competition.