An inquest has been opened into former Liverpool and Chelsea Girls supervisor Matt Beard’s dying, a coroner’s court docket heard on Monday.
Beard died in hospital on September 20 aged 47 after paramedics had been known as to his house. Liverpool’s recreation with Aston Villa was postponed the next day whereas a minute’s silence was held at each Girls’s Tremendous League recreation.
The listening to in Ruthin, North Wales was adjourned for a full inquest at a later date.
Beard managed Liverpool between 2012 to 2015 and once more from 2021 to 2025. He additionally had spells at Chelsea Girls, Millwall Lionesses, West Ham Girls and most not too long ago a brief spell at Burnley Girls.
Beard coached Liverpool to back-to-back WSL titles in 2013 and 2014. Throughout his second spell in cost, he helped them win promotion again to the highest flight earlier than main them to a seventh-placed end.
He gained the WSL Supervisor of the Season Award within the 2023-24 marketing campaign – the second time he had gained that prize in his profession.
‘Beard remodeled girls’s recreation when few cared’
England winger Nikita Parris instructed the Pitch to Pod podcast Beard had “transformed” the ladies’s recreation in England when only a few cared.
London Metropolis Lionesses ahead Parris, who got here up in opposition to Beard groups on quite a few events, stated the two-time WSL winner made sacrifices for the ladies’s recreation when not many individuals cared about it.
“He transformed women’s football in England just through sheer wanting to and caring,” Parris stated.
“Not many people did when the game was getting watched by like 50 fans on a cow patch, there was not many people interested in the women’s game then and he continued to stay, to thrive.
“His household made sacrifices, he made sacrifices to be able to push this recreation ahead and I hope he is honoured in the proper approach as a result of he simply completely deserves it.”
