Polly Bancroft turns into Manchester United’s first head of ladies’s soccer.
The appointment of Bancroft marks an vital step within the membership’s efforts to develop into a number one power within the girls’s sport.
Bancroft, who has over 10 years expertise in varied soccer roles, has joined the Reds from Brighton and Hove Albion the place she was the ladies’s staff normal supervisor.
She beforehand labored for UEFA and the FA and has held roles in technical, efficiency and enterprise areas of the ladies’s sport.
Bancroft and Marc Skinner will work carefully collectively as they ensure that workers and gamers are nicely geared up to compete within the Ladies’s Tremendous League.
She is going to report back to John Murtough, the soccer director as collectively the three of them provide you with a long run technique for the ladies’s staff.
United presently sit prime of the league after beating Bancroft’s former membership final weekend so have made their intentions clear for the development of the membership.
They’ve come fourth, simply exterior of the Champions League locations for 3 consecutive seasons after being promoted from the Championship in 2019 however look to go one higher this yr.
Talking of her appointment Murtough stated, “We’re delighted to have somebody of Polly’s expertise and experience be part of the membership at this thrilling second for the ladies’s staff.
“Underneath the management of Marc Skinner, the staff has established itself as one of many challengers within the Ladies’s Tremendous League and Polly is already proving that she will add that further ingredient that may take us to the subsequent degree, each on and off the pitch.”
Chatting with the membership’s web site, Bancroft stated, “I’m delighted to be becoming a member of Manchester United at such an vital second for the ladies’s staff on this thrilling period of ladies’s soccer.
“That is the largest membership within the nation, and I’m excited to contribute to the success of the membership together with John Murtough and Marc Skinner to create one thing particular within the years to come back.”
United’s subsequent sport can be on Sunday once they face Leicester away on the King Energy Stadium.
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