2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final
The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final was an association football match that determined the winner of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The match was played at the Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia, on 20 August 2023, and was contested by Spain and England. It took place in front of 75,784 supporters, and Spain won the final 1–0 through a goal from Olga Carmona, assisted by Mariona Caldentey. For both finalists, this was the first appearance in a Women's World Cup final. Both teams were looking to become only the second country to win both men's and women's World Cups – Germany accomplished the feat in 2003 – as well as become the first team representing UEFA to win the tournament since Germany in 2007. This was the third all-European final in the Women's World Cup, after the 1995 and 2003 finals, both of which were also contested between potential new champions. Background Both teams were making their Women's World Cup final debut. Spain had appeared in two previous Women's World Cups and advanced as far as the round of 16 in 2019. England had played in five previous Women's World Cups and achieved their best prior performance in 2015, when they finished third. This final was the third all-European final in Women's World Cup history after 1995 — when Norway won their first title by beating Germany in Stockholm — and 2003 — when Germany won their first title via a golden goal against Sweden in the United States to become the first country to have won both senior World Cups; at the time, their men's team had won three world titles. As a result, the winner of the 2023 final would become the first European team to win the tournament since Germany in 2007. The winners would also be the first new Women's World Cup champions since Japan in 2011. This was the seventeenth meeting between the two teams: England had been more successful, with seven victories to Spain's three, and six draws. Three of those matches had been in a major tournament, all at the UEFA Women's Championship. Spain won their first Euros encounter, with England winning the last two matches at the 2017 and the 2022 tournaments respectively. Spain's Jorge Vilda managed in his fourth consecutive major championship and the second in the Women's World Cup. He became the first man to manage a Women's World Cup-winning side since Norio Sasaki with Japan in 2011 and the first European man since Even Pellerud in 1995 to win it. England manager Sarina Wiegman was also at her fourth consecutive major championship, and fourth consecutive final after winning the 2017 Euros and finishing as runners-up in the 2019 Women's World Cup with her native Netherlands in addition to winning the Women's Euro 2022 with England. She was the first person to lead different nations in multiple men's or women's World Cup finals and seeking to become the first manager to win the tournament with a foreign national