2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final: Spain vs England Key Stats, Insights & Markets

At 11 am on Sunday, Spain and England go head to head at Stadium Australia in Sydney with both countries aiming to win their first FIFA Women’s World Cup crowns.

Prior to this tournament, Spain’s best international campaign was the third-place finish that they managed at Euro 1997, while England managed to famously win Euro 2022 against Germany before the Lionesses emerged victorious in this year’s Finalissima as they beat Brazil on penalties at Wembley following a 1-1 draw.

Jorge Vilda’s story is an inspiring one, as having previously been a youth midfielder at the likes of Barcelona, Real Valladolid and Real Madrid, the 42-year-old joined Spain Women’s coaching team back in 2009 as assistant manager of the Under 19s before working his way up the system to become leader of the senior team in 2015.

Sarina Weigman has the opportunity to become the first manager to win a World Cup and the European Championship trophy with England, something that she will be desperate to achieve having finished as runner-up in the 2019 World Cup with the Netherlands against the USA after previously guiding the Dutch to Euro 2017 glory.

Spain

Spain Women’s managed to qualify as second place in Group C, having comfortably progressed from their group via 3-0 and 4-0 wins over the likes of Costa Rica and Zambia, before being thrashed by Japan on matchday three.

La Roja have faced some tricky opponents along their way to the final in the knockout stages, having managed to beat 2019 World Cup runners-up in the Netherlands, as well as Sweden who are ranked as the third-best national side in the women’s game, only behind Germany and the USA.

Group C

Spain 3-0 Costa Rica

Spain 4-0 Zambia

Japan 4-0 Spain

Round of 16: Switzerland 1-5 Spain

Quarter-Final: Spain 2-1 Netherlands

Semi-Final: Spain 2-1 Sweden

England

England managed to top Group D with nine points from three matches, however, Wiegman’s side have only just started to hit their stride, having started the competition fairly slowly by beating both Haiti and Denmark by narrow 1-0 scorelines, before thrashing China 6-1.

The Lionesses have faced plenty of adversity, having overcome Nigeria in the Round of 16 while being reduced to 10 players following Lauren James’ late red card in normal time for a stamp on Michelle Alozie. On top of this, they faced the tricky task of knocking out the host nation in Australia, a side that they had previously been beaten 2-0 by in a friendly back in April.

Group D

England 1-0 Haiti

England 1-0 Denmark

China 1-6 England

Round of 16: England 0-0 Nigeria (England won 4-2 on penalties)

Quarter-Final: England 2-1 Colombia

Semi-Final: Australia 1-3 England

Winners Odds

Spain’s odds of winning this final are at 13/8 to win the match, while they are also at 8/5 to go ‘2Up’.

Goalscorer Odds

Alba Redondo and Jennifer Hermoso are the favourites to score for Spain in this match, with both of these players being priced at 15/2 to score first or last, as well as 10/3 to score anytime.

Hermoso is Spain’s all-time top scorer with 51 goals in 104 caps and currently plies her trade with Pachuca in Mexico, this could well be her last World Cup appearance for La Roja at the age of 33.

Meanwhile, Redondo has 14 goals in 33 games for Spain, and the Levante striker has managed to score three goals in six appearances at the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

Card Markets

Laia Codina is the favourite to be yellow carded at 3/1 having started all three of Spain’s knockout matches while committing 1.3 fouls per game.

Winners Odds

The Lionesses are priced at 9/5 to win the match itself and also have the odds of 7/4 to go ‘2Up’.

Goalscorer Odds

It will be interesting to see if England will bring James back into their line-up, with the Chelsea midfielder scoring three goals and creating three assists in just four matches for Weigman’s side - she is priced at 10/1 to score first or last against Spain.

Lauren Hemp and Alessia Russo scored vital goals in England’s 3-1 win over Australia to take their tallies up to three at the tournament, they have the odds of 7/2 and 11/4 to score anytime; while Ella Toone is priced at 11/1 to open the scoring in back to back matches following her sensational outside of the foot opener against the Matildas.

Card Markets

Bayern Munich’s Georgia Stanway is priced at 7/2 to be booked, as is James. So far at the women’s World Cup, Stanway has received one yellow card having been cautioned in England’s 1-0 win over Haiti, meanwhile, James’ red card against Nigeria is the only dismissal that the Lionesses have had at the competition.

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