Melissa Andreatta, assistant coach of Australia’s Matildas, has been introduced as Scotland Girls’s new head coach.
Andreatta is the everlasting alternative for Pedro Martinez Losa, who was sacked in December after failing to qualify for Euro 2025.
The previous Australian A-League coach is anticipated to take over in time for Scotland’s Nations League match in opposition to Austria on the finish of Might.
The 46-year-old has an intensive CV throughout the girls’s recreation and supported Tony Gustavsson throughout Australia’s fourth-placed end on the Girls’s World Cup in 2023 and final yr’s Olympic Video games in Paris.
Andreatta mentioned: “I am completely delighted to be main Scotland Girls’s Nationwide Staff into a brand new, thrilling period.
“It is an actual honour to hitch such a powerful programme, which you’ll see from the expertise within the senior squad, which runs via all the age teams. That is testomony to the work that is been carried out already by Michael McArdle and the staff.
“The long run is certainly brilliant and with my intensive teaching, expertise growth and main event expertise, my purpose is to assist the gamers and workers to succeed in their fullest potential.
“The ambition is to get Scotland back to consistent qualification and with the squad in a period of transition, this is the perfect opportunity to start building towards that future.”
Scotland Girls final reached a significant event when Shelley Kerr’s aspect featured on the 2019 World Cup in France. It was a second successive finals look.
Martinez Losa was appointed after Kerr’s staff missed out on the following European Championships, with the Spaniard additionally dropping a World Cup play-off in opposition to Republic of Eire in 2022.
Scotland then misplaced to Finland within the play-off for the 2025 event, with the staff falling quick of their quest to qualify for the 2023 World Cup too.
Scotland’s final match underneath McArdle was a 6-1 defeat away to Germany
Michael McArdle – who had been working carefully alongside Martinez Losa in his function as the pinnacle of girls’s elite Soccer – was in non permanent cost of the staff.
It’s understood McArdle was eager on the job however after 4 defeats in his 4 video games as interim head coach, he returns to his earlier function.
Michael McArdle was in interim cost however misplaced all 4 Nations League matches
Ian Maxwell, Scottish FA CEO added: “Firstly, I would like to thank Michael for his professionalism throughout this process and for stepping-up and taking charge of the national team on an interim basis following Pedro’s departure.
“That the ultimate shortlist comprised candidates from three totally different continents exhibits the extensive enchantment of main the Scotland Girls’s Nationwide Staff. Melissa supplied a breadth of various experiences in any respect ranges of the ladies’s recreation in Australia. She is a valued member of the Matildas’ teaching workers but additionally has accountability for growing elite youth gamers inside a revered efficiency system.
“I am sure I speak on behalf of the players when I say we are all looking forward to Melissa starting her new role. I also reiterate my thanks to Michael, who will have a pivotal part to play in helping Melissa and the women’s national teams succeed in the future.”
