Carla Ward has been appointed as the brand new Republic of Eire head coach via to the tip of the 2027 Girls’s World Cup marketing campaign.
Former Aston Villa boss Ward left her position with the Girls’s Tremendous League membership on the finish of final season and now replaces Eileen Gleeson, who was not provided a brand new deal after Eire didn’t qualify for Euro 2025.
Ward – who was a part of america’ teaching employees underneath Emma Hayes as they received gold on the 2024 Olympics in Paris – will take cost with fast impact forward of the 2025 Nations League marketing campaign, which begins with a house recreation in opposition to Turkey at Tallaght Stadium on February 21.
“I am hugely excited to get going with the Ireland women’s national team,” Ward stated.
“That is an unbelievable alternative, not simply with the nationwide workforce, however in serving to so as to add to the unbelievable work being achieved to develop girls and ladies’ soccer.
“Over the next two-and-a-half years, as we build towards the World Cup, we can make a real difference and I am looking forward to getting started.”
Ward might be supported by assistant coach Alan Mahon, a former Eire males’s worldwide who additionally labored within the WSL at Manchester Metropolis, and goalkeeping coach Emma Byrne – former Eire girls’s captain and document look holder.
Below Gleeson – who had changed Vera Pauw within the dugout – Eire have been promoted to Nations League A and reached the second spherical of the play-offs for Euro 2025, the place they went out to Wales over two legs.
Soccer Affiliation of Eire chief soccer officer Marc Canham stated: “We are thrilled to announce a head coach of Carla’s pedigree.
“To have the ability to safe such a high quality coach is an announcement of our ambition for the place our girls’s nationwide workforce can go.
“We are delighted to secure someone who brings the passion, commitment and skill set that we set out to find in the recruitment process.
“Carla’s expertise as a coach, aligned along with her potential to deliver the most effective out in these round her, marked her out as our primary candidate and we’re assured that she might be an excellent appointment.”
