Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nThe 27-year-old has been involved in six games throughout the tournament, including as an assistant referee for the first semi-final between New Zealand and Canada.<\/p>\n
It continues her meteoric rise through the ranks after making her international debut in 2023 before joining the SVNS World Series a year later.<\/p>\n
She will be supported by Kat Roche (USA) and Sara Cox (England) as assistant referees, Quinton Immelman (South Africa) as the TMO, and Ian Tempest (England) as the FPRO.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s Hollie Davidson will serve as referee for the World Cup Final between Canada and England.<\/p>\n
It will be Davidson\u2019s second Women\u2019s Rugby World Cup final, having been in the middle for New Zealand\u2019s 34-31 victory over England\u00a0in 2022 and joins Andre Watson as the only match officials to referee two Rugby World Cup finals.<\/p>\n
The appointments for the final are Aimee Barrett-Theron (South Africa) and\u00a0Clara Munarini (Italy) as assistant referees with Leo Colgan (Ireland) the Television Match Official (TMO) and Matteo Liperini (Italy) the Foul Play Review Officer (FPRO).<\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of World Rugby, congratulations to Hollie on her selection for as the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 final referee,” World Rugby Chair Brett Robinson said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“To take charge of two Rugby World Cup finals is an incredible achievement and reflection of a match official who is at the top of her game. <\/p>\n
“We wish her well, along with bronze final referee Ella Goldsmith, and all the assistant referees, TMOs and FPROs, who will be playing their part in making history at a full Allianz Stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCongratulations firstly to Hollie on the incredible achievement of refereeing her second Women’s Rugby World Cup final and to Ella for her appointment to the bronze final, a testament to how she has progressed and performed in the tournament,” Chair of the Emirates World Rugby Match Officials Selectors, Su Carty added. <\/p>\n
“They have both earned their place on merit, courtesy of their consistently high level of performance at this tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian referee Ella Goldsmith has been appointed as referee to the Rugby World Cup bronze medal match between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,108434,760,85],"class_list":["post-164773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-refereeing","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164773","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=164773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}