2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup final

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2021 (2021) Women's Rugby League World Cup final
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Australian colours.svg AUS203454
New Zealand Kiwis colours.svg NZL044
Date19 November 2022
Stadium Old Trafford
Location Manchester, England
Player of the Match Ali Brigginshaw
Referee Belinda Sharpe (Australia)
Attendance67,502 [a]
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The 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup final was the rugby league match to determine the winner of the 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup, played between the two finalists on 19 November 2022 at Old Trafford in Manchester, England.

Contents

Background

Venue

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Outside Old Trafford ahead of hosting the Women's World Cup final for the first time
Australia team members with the 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup Jillaroos with 2021 WRLWC.jpg
Australia team members with the 2021 Women's Rugby League World Cup

Old Trafford hosted the Women's World Cup final for the first time. The ground has hosted the men's final twice in 2000, 2013, and hosted the 2021 Men's Final as well. [1] [2] It was confirmed as the venue to host the final on 10 June 2020, when the fixture for the event was released. [3]

The ground is often used for major rugby league matches, being the primary venue for the annual Super League Grand Final, which is the championship-deciding game of Britain's Super League competition, and top-tier test matches such as Great Britain games Kangaroo tours. [4]

The ground is the home stadium of English football team Manchester United, and has a capacity of 74,310, [5] which makes it the largest club football stadium (second-largest football stadium overall after Wembley Stadium, and third largest on total with the rugby union Twickenham Stadium coming in second) in the United Kingdom, and the eleventh-largest in Europe. [6]

Route to the final

Australia

Group Stage
Semi Final

New Zealand

Group Stage
Semi Final

Match

19 November 2022
13:15 GMT (UTC±00:00)
Australia  Flag of Australia (converted).svg54–4Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Tries: Sergis (2) 4', 51'
Kelly (2) 14', 35'
Robinson 26'
Tonegato 48'
Aiken 56'
Cherrington (2) 66', 69'
Pelite 72'
Goals: Brigginshaw (2/5) 6', 70'
Brown (5/5) 36', 49', 52', 57', 67'
Report
Tries: Bartlett 64'
Goals: R. McGregor (0/1)
Old Trafford, Manchester
Attendance: 67,502
Referee: Belinda Sharpe (Australia)
Touch judges: Wyatt Raymond (Australia), Darian Furner (Australia)
Player of the Match: Ali Brigginshaw (Australia)
Team details
AustraliaPositionNew Zealand
NameNumberNumberName
Samantha Bremner 21 Nicholls-Pualau
Julia Robinson 103 Autumn-Rain Stephens-Daly
Jessica Sergis 1124 Mele Hufanga
Isabelle Kelly 54 Page McGregor
Evania Pelite 245 Madison Bartlett
Tarryn Aiken 1215 Abigail Roache
Ali Brigginshaw 37 Raecene McGregor
Shannon Mato 2323 Brianna Clark
Keeley Davis 89 Krystal Rota
Kennedy Cherrington 1610 Annetta Nu'uausala
Yasmin Clydsdale 1811 Roxy Murdoch-Masila
Kezie Apps 112 Amber Hall
Simaima Taufa 413 Georgia Hale
Lauren Brown 1414 Nita Maynard
Emma Tonegato 68 Mya Hill-Moana
Shaylee Bent 1318 Otesa Pule
Caitlan Johnston 2017 Christyl Stowers
Brad Donald
Coach
Ricky Henry
PotM Ali Brigginshaw being interviewed after the game Ali Brigginshaw WRLWC 2021.jpg
PotM Ali Brigginshaw being interviewed after the game

Post match

Men's final

The women's final was played as a double header men's final for the first time in the tournament's history.

See also

Notes

  1. Joint attendance figure with the Men's final

References

  1. "Australia win epic World Cup final". 25 November 2000. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  2. "New Zealand 2 Australia 34: match report". Daily Telegraph. 30 November 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  3. "Manchester to host World Cup finals". BBC Sport. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. "Old Trafford extends Grand Final deal". BBC Sport. 27 September 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  5. "Old Trafford". premierleague.com. Premier League. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  6. "Manchester Sightseeing Bus Tours". Archived from the original on 16 July 2015. Retrieved 15 July 2015.