Spain wins the Women’s World Cup for the first time with a 1-0 win over England
Spain have won their first Women’s World Cup with a 1-0 win over England.
Victory for Spain in their third World Cup appearance prevented the Lionesses – the reigning European champions – from bringing the trophy back to England for the first time since 1966. England’s men’s team won the country’s only World Cup that year.
Spain won with Olga Carmona’s goal in the 29th minute. The left-back scored in back-to-back World Cup matches for Spain, who have a tournament-best 18 goals at this World Cup, and became just the seventh player in the tournament’s history to score in both a semi-final and final .
Spain, who had a near mutiny last year when 15 players left the national team, were the more aggressive team in the final and applied pressure throughout the game.
England’s defeat was the first at the tournament for coach Sarina Wiegman, who was hired at the end of 2021 as the team’s first non-British coach. It was also Wiegman’s second straight loss in the finals.
She is the only coach in the history of the tournament to lead two nations to the final; Wiegman was the coach of the Netherlands when the Dutch lost 2-0 to the United States in 2019.
The final guaranteed a first-time Women’s World Cup winner as neither Spain nor England had ever lifted the trophy.
