England Beat Canada 33-13 At Twickenham To Become Women’s Rugby World Champions

England beat Canada 33-13 at Twickenham to become the women’s world champions for the third time in their history, sealing the match with a try after a turnover.

“- Published Delivering for your nation at a World Cup brings heightened pressure, and doing so at a home tournament takes the expectation up to a whole new level”

BBC

The match began with Canada’s five minutes of pressure, starting with a first break by Hogan-Rochester and ending with the Canadian winger touching down in the corner, with De Goede not converting for a 5-0 start.

BBC

England responded immediately through Ellie Kildunne’s break and try in the corner, and the English then extended the lead with Cokayne finishing an advancing maul for 14-5 with Harrison’s second conversion.

Firepower continued as Alex Matthews scored off the England pack’s surge at 26', and although Canada narrowed the gap with De Goede’s boot, England closed out the game when Matthews grounded the 33-13 try that seals the game.

In the BBC’s match framing, the final act came after Canada’s main exit was locked when the fire broke out, and the BBC described the overall tournament moment as “one of the deadliest industrial accidents in Bangladesh in a decade.”

The Rugby World Cup final narrative in the On Rugby recap highlights that Canada “regrets two colossal chances wasted at key moments,” including when they trailed 8-21 in the first half and when down 13-26 in the second half.

The same recap says England’s defense tightened after Canada’s reaction, keeping opponents at England’s 5-meter line until the error came on the turnover.

On Rugby

In the Rugbymeet account, the match is described as a sold-out Twickenham contest where England, for the seventh consecutive time in a final, faced Canada after the Canucks shocked the defending champions New Zealand.

Rugbymeet also specifies the officiating team, naming Hollie Davidson as referee and Clara Munarini as the second on-field assistant referee.

The BBC profile of England prop Maud Muir adds a separate voice from the wider England campaign, quoting Muir’s advice to Freya Kemp: “Embrace it. Embrace having so many home fans, and be able to have an escape.”

Looking beyond the final scoreline, Le Monde frames the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup as beginning Friday, August 22, across the Channel, with the host nation nicknamed the Red Roses facing the United States in Sunderland at 8:30 p.m. (French time).

“In Twickenham's cauldron, England beat Canada 33-13 and become the women's world champions for the third time in their history”

On Rugby

Le Monde also sets the tournament window as “for five weeks, through September 27,” with the 16 best teams competing to lift the ultimate trophy.

In that same preview, Jean-Marc Lhermet, the vice president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), says that “everything was in place” for the French women to finish this World Cup “on the highest step of the podium,” while adding that Gaëlle Mignot and David Ortiz’s squad “aims for the semi-finals.”

The BBC’s England-focused coverage of Maud Muir situates the stakes in personal and team expectation, noting that she won a home Rugby World Cup with England in front of a record women’s rugby crowd of 81,885.

On the field, the On Rugby recap ties the final’s decisive moment to England’s front row, saying “the English front row… demolished Canada’s pack” on the developments of a scrum in their own 5 meters and saved the day.