Your guide to Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final and how to watch on BBC

The two highest-ranked teams will face off in the World Cup final on Saturday at Twickenham, where they will face the biggest prize in women’s rugby.

World number one England are bidding to win for a third time following success in 1994 and 2014 – when they beat Canada in the showpiece.

The Red Roses, who have been fully professional since 2019, have already won 32 Test matches and are favorites to reach 33.

They are also seeking to make up for the heartbreak of the 2022 final when they lost 34-31 to New Zealand after having winger Lydia Thompson sent off early in the first half.

To reach their second final, Canada defeated defending champion New Zealand, who arguably has been playing better rugby than England.

They are not fully professional and set up a £530, 000 (C $1m) fundraising drive – entitled Mission: Win Rugby World Cup – to help boost their chances.

You’ve never seen England’s best, in my opinion. There’s definitely more in this team – we always ask more of ourselves”, he said.

It’s probably wrong of us to set a limit because we probably don’t even know what that limit is. These girls are driven, they want to get better.

This tournament ” throws curve balls,” and Saturday will no exception. You must contend with a lot of hardship to get to this point.

“You’ve got one and two in the world in the final, which is so good for the game. We will have to earn an 80-minute performance for it.

” We’re never going to be perfect, but to win this tournament, you don’t have to be perfect.

In the end, it would be nice for this team to realize their potential and receive compensation for it because of how much talent there is.

Captain Zoe Aldcroft added: “We are so excited to get out there. We really believe that this is our time now that we have been working on it for three years.

” We’re so excited to experience it. We’ve wanted it for a long time but have never had it.

“The momentum and the impact that we have had on fans throughout the tournament, it’s going to be so exciting to see where we have pushed women’s rugby to and exciting for this new era of women’s rugby on Saturday.

Really, it makes you shiver. It’s like the 16th person on the pitch and it really pulls you forward. “

England’s Meg Jones, who has been nominated for the year’s World Rugby women’s 15s player, praised the team’s determination to make history.

” We’ve had to fight for every second of game time in this tournament. She continued, “We’ve earned the privilege to be here.”

” I think we were very close in the last World Cup, “added the Frenchman.

We lost in the semi-finals, and I would say that was because of all the metrics but not the score, so it can sometimes be difficult to interpret.

“But we were not ready in those high-pressure games to deliver and I think that’s a big difference.

We definitely changed the way we play, and I believe I saw that we were moving in the right direction and that we do a lot of good things a year and a half ago.

“We had a good game against England in Canada (a 21-12 loss in 2024) but we didn’t deliver on details.

In addition to Natasha Hunt and Alex Matthews, the England team that lost to the winning team from 2014, Flanker Aldcroft, will take the place of them.

Star full-back Ellie Kildunne, Abby Dow, Zoe Harrison, Amy Cokayne, Abbie Ward, Aldcroft and Matthews remain from the starting XV defeated by the Black Ferns in the final three years ago.

Only England’s players have started all six of their games since the World Cup, with the exception of centre Jess Breach, who has six tries.

Canada are also unchanged. In the Premiership Women’s Rugby League, eight of their starting XV players play for English clubs, including Exeter Chiefs center Alex Tessier, who is the team’s captain.

Replacements: Atkin-Davies, Clifford, Bern, Galligan, Feaunati, L Packer, Aitchison, Rowland.

Canada: Hogan-Rochester, Perry, Pelletier, Hunt, Tuttosi, Menin, De Goede, O’Donnell, Crossley, Paquin, Forteza, Corrigan, Symonds, Corrigan, Corrigan, Symonds, Corrigan, and Symonds.

What will be a record-setting crowd for a one-off women’s rugby match will take place in Twickenham for the final match.

Tickets for the 82, 000-capacity Allianz Stadium sold out a month ago, with the attendance therefore set to beat the record of 58, 498 set when England played France in the 2023 Six Nations.

The full-back hit her stride with two superb tries at Ashton Gate, having only flickered briefly in her two previous outings at this World Cup.

She was also wearing eye-catching cheetah-print footwear for the first time from her boot sponsor, which has been prominent throughout the tournament’s marketing campaign.

Canada standout Sophie de Goede is a rugby rarity as a goal-kicking lock forward, and with 58 points is the second-highest scorer in the World Cup so far.

Prior to the third-placed play-off against France, which occurs before the final itself, Braxton Sorensen-McGee from New Zealand has 59 points.

He succeeded Simon Middleton as head coach of the women’s team in 2023 and has won every game since taking over.

England have scored 43 tries in the tournament, while Canada have managed 35.

In her country’s opening pool match against Fiji, full-back Julia Schell scored six tries in an extraordinary 23-minute period.

Wing Jess Breach has crossed the whitewash six times for England, including a hat-trick in the thumping victory over Samoa. Five goals were scored by Kildunne and five by sophomore forward Kelsey Clifford.

The aim of the game is very simple: score more points than the other team over 80 minutes of play (two halves of 40 minutes).

You accomplish this by scoring penalties, conversions, drop-goals, and tries.

A try – for touching the ball to the ground in your opponent’s in-goal area – is worth five points

A kick following a try is worth two points, according to the conversion.

A penalty kick – awarded for foul play – is worth three points

A kick in open-play is also worth three points, as is a drop-goal.

England reached the final with a 35-17 win over France at Ashton Gate, extending their world record winning run to 32 matches.

After defeating the United States, Samoa, and Australia to win Pool A, they had defeated Scotland 40-8 in the quarter-finals.

The Red Roses have scored 283 points across their five games and conceded just 42.

In their semi-final victory over defending world champions New Zealand, Canada triumphed to a thrilling 34-19 victory.

Scotland’s Hollie Davidson will take charge of a World Cup final for a second time having refereed the 2022 match between New Zealand and England.

Leo Colgan (Ireland), the television match official (TMO), and Matteo Liperini (Italy), the foul play review officer (FPRO), will serve as Aimee Barrett-Theron (South Africa), and Clara Munarini (Italy), the assistant referee.

Australia’s Ella Goldsmith will referee the bronze final, supported by Kat Roche (USA) and Sara Cox (England) as assistant referees, Quinton Immelman (South Africa) as TMO and Ian Tempest (England) as FPRO.

There have been nine previous Women’s World Cups but only three nations have lifted the trophy – New Zealand (six times), England (twice) and the United States (once).

England reached eight finals, but they only won two of them, in 1994 and 2014.

Canada lost on their only previous appearance in a final, falling to England in 2014.

The inaugural Cardiff tournament was won by the United States.

2021: New Zealand 34-31 England – Eden Park, Auckland*

*Competition was postponed due to Covid pandemic until 2022.

2017: New Zealand 41-32 England – Ravenhill, Belfast

2014: England 21-9 Canada vs. Stade Jean-Bouin, Paris

2010: New Zealand 13-10 England – Twickenham Stoop, London

2006: England vs. New Zealand at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Edmonton

2002: New Zealand 19-9 England – Olympic Stadium, Barcelona

1998: New Zealand defeated the USA at the National Rugby Center Stadium in Amsterdam.

1994: England 38-23 USA – Raeburn Place, Edinburgh

The game will be called sudden-death extra time if the teams are tied at full-game.

There are two halves of 10 minutes allocated and the first team to score any points will win the match.

The game will begin at 16:00 BST and be streamed live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website and app.

BBC One &amp, iPlayer will be live from 15: 00 until 18: 35, with radio commentary of the whole match on Sports Extra from 15: 45 and on 5 Live from 17: 00.

In the third-place play-off of the Rugby World Cup, France and New Zealand square off against each other.