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Current World Ranking: 2<\/a> (90.13 points)2025-09-06 \u2013 Scotland 19, Canada 40 (Exeter)
2025-08-30 \u2013 Wales 0, Canada 42 (Manchester)
2025-08-23 \u2013 Canada 65, Fiji 7 (York)
2025-08-09 \u2013 Ireland 26, Canada 47 (Belfast)
2025-08-01 \u2013 Canada 42, USA 10 (Ottawa)<\/p>\n
none 3 7 9 12 New Zealand has dominated the head-to-head matchup, winning the first 17 contests\u2026 but that streak ended in 2024 when Canada won in Christchurch and the two sides were dead even at the same venue in May during the Pacific Four \u201cWe have shown over the past two years that we are one of the best teams in the world, and our last two results against New Zealand support that. We have every reason to believe that we can win this game. On Friday, we take another step toward the ultimate goal we have been building toward over our first four games and the last three years. It will be a short week of preparation, but the team will be ready.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are looking forward to this weekend and the challenge ahead, we are a different team, our game is in a different\u00a0place\u00a0and\u00a0we have experience in pinnacle events under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n Mild temperatures and calm skies should set the stage for an all-time classic contest. While New Zealand are perhaps not quite at the levels we have seen in the past, the only gray mark on their record this year was the draw to the Maple Leafs in May. The loss of Miller though is significant, and the psychological advantage once held over the Canadians is gone. It\u2019s been a superb showing from K\u00e9vin Rouet\u2019s side so far, with many calling them the form team of the tournament. Giving the Black Ferns the title of \u2018underdogs\u2019 seems inappropriate, and indeed the bookies are giving them the benefit of the doubt. On this occasion we\u2019ll opt for a different assessment. Canada are slight favorites in Bristol.<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Gillian Boag, 17 Brittany Kassil, 18 Olivia DeMerchant, 19 Tyson Beukeboom, 20 Laetitia Royer, 21 Gabrielle Senft, 22 Olivia Apps, 23 Shoshanah Seumanutafa<\/p>\n Replacements: 16 Atlanta Lolohea, 17 Kate Henwood, 18 Amy Rule, 19 Chelsea Bremner, 20 Layla Sae, 21 Maia Joseph, 22 Theresa Setefano, 23 Ayesha Leti-I\u2019iga<\/p>\n Date: Friday, September 19 Referee: Aimee Barrett-Theron (South Africa) HEAD-TO-HEAD (19): ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/logo-new-zealand-women-thumbnail-2022.png\"){kind=logo}
\u00a0Current World Ranking:\u00a03<\/a> (88.76 points)
2025-09-13 \u2013 New Zealand 46, South Africa 17 (Exeter)
2025-09-07 \u2013 New Zealand 40, Ireland 0 (Brighton)
2025-08-31 \u2013 New Zealand 62, Japan 19 (Exeter)
2025-08-24 \u2013 New Zealand 54, Spain 8 (York)
2025-07-12 \u2013 New Zealand 37, Australia 12 (Wellington)<\/p>\n
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\nTanya Kalounivale
\nVeisinia Mahutariki-Fakalelu<\/p>\n
\nKennedy Tukuafu
\nJorja Miller<\/p>\n
\nRisi Pouri-Lane
\nMaia Joseph<\/p>\n
\nSylvia Brunt
\nTheresa Setefano<\/p>\n
\nthis will be the first time in World Cup competition that Canada will be ranked higher than New Zealand\u2026 the Black Ferns in each of 1991, 2006, and 2017
\nthere are no changes to the Canadian lineup this week with an identical match day 23 to the one that defeated Australia in last week\u2019s quarter final
\nthe Black Ferns have been hit by injury to star flanker Jorja Miller, having previously lost midfielder Amy du Plessis during the pool stage\u2026 also out is reserve lock Laura Bayfield
\nKennedy Tukuafu takes the place of Miller while Sylvia Brunt is recalled in the midfield\u2026 other changes see Tanya Kalounivale back in at tighthead prop and Risi Pouri-Lane starting at scrumhalf
\nNew Zealand\u2019s co-captain and star flyhalf Ruahei Demant will be celebrating her 50th test appearance on Friday\u2026 becoming just the third player to reach that milestone with the Black Ferns\u2026 the other two are former teammates Fiao\u2019o Fa\u2019amausili (57 caps) and Kendra Cocksedge (68 caps)
\nthe Black Ferns feature the tournament\u2019s leading point scorer in winger Braxton Sorensen-Magee, who also leads in tries scored\u2026 fullback Renee Holmes is second in points
\nthird on the list of points scored is Sophie de Goede\u2026 the Canadian star leads the tournament in ball carries, offloads, conversions kicked, and lineout wins<\/p>\n K\u00e9vin Rouet <\/a>(Head Coach)<\/p>\n Allan Bunting <\/a>(Head Coach)<\/p>\n
CANADA
1 McKinley Hunt, 2 Emily Tuttosi, 3 DaLeaka Menin, 4 Sophie de Goede, 5 Courtney O\u2019Donnell, 6 Caroline Crossley, 7 Karen Paquin, 8 Fabiola Forteza, 9 Justine Pelletier, 10 Taylor Perry, 11 Asia Hogan-Rochester, 12 Alex Tessier (capt.), 13 Florence Symonds, 14 Alysha Corrigan, 15 Julia Schell<\/p>\n
NEW ZEALAND
1 Chryss Viliko, 2 Georgia Ponsonby, 3 Tanya Kalounivale, 4 Maia Roos, 5 Alana Bremner, 6 Liana Mikaele-Tu\u2019u, 7 Kennedy Tukuafu (capt.), 8 Kaipo Olsen-Baker, 9 Risi Pouri-Lane, 10 Ruahei Demant, 11 Portia Woodman, 12 Sylvia Brunt, 13 Stacey Waaka, 14 Braxton Sorensen-McGee, 15 Renee Holmes<\/p>\n
Venue: Ashton Gate, Bristol
Kickoff: 19:00 local (11:00 Pacific, 14:00 Eastern)
Weather Forecast: partly cloudy, 64\u00b0F (18\u00b0C), wind S 6-8mph (9-13km\/h)
Broadcasts: TSN 1<\/a>\u00a0(Canada), Paramount+<\/a> (USA), RugbyPass TV<\/a><\/p>\n
Assistants: Aur\u00e9lie Groizeleau (France) & Ella Goldsmith (Australia)
TMO: Quinton Immelman (South Africa)<\/p>\n New Zealand 17, Canada 1, Draw 1
2025-05-17 \u2013 New Zealand 27, Canada 27 (Christchurch)
2024-05-19 \u2013 New Zealand 19, Canada 22 (Christchurch)
2023-07-08 \u2013 Canada 21, New Zealand 52 (Ottawa)
2022-06-12 \u2013 New Zealand 28, Canada 0 (Auckland)
2019-06-28 \u2013 Canada 20, New Zealand 35 (Chula Vista)
2017-08-17 \u2013 Canada 5, New Zealand 48 (Dublin)
2017-06-09 \u2013 New Zealand 28, Canada 16 (Wellington)
2016-11-23 \u2013 Canada 10, New Zealand 20 (Dublin)
2015-06-27 \u2013 Canada 22, New Zealand 40 (Calgary)
2014-06-14 \u2013 New Zealand 33, Canada 21 (Whakatane)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A spot in the World Cup Final is up for grabs on Friday when Canada takes on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-152789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}