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Leicester City Women Given Tier Two Status for 2018/19

By StanSP, in Leicester City Forum

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http://lcwfc.com/leicester-city-women-fc-tier-2-bid/

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Leicester City Women Football Club are delighted to announce that the club’s application for Tier Two status for the 2018/19 season has been accepted, as part of the FA’s plans to restructure the highest two tiers of the women’s football pyramid.

The club underwent a vigorous application process, detailing our commitment to meeting the FA’s key criteria of players receiving a minimum of 8 hours contact time per week.

Leicester City Women Football Club chairman Rohan Morgan said, “I’m absolutely delighted with the announcement. I’m immensely pleased for everyone involved with the club, and a special thanks to the team that helped to put the bid together.”

“The work for next season now begins in earnest, we will continue our hard work of the past few months working towards delivering key aspects of our bid as well as working towards becoming a competitive team within the FA Women’s Championship.”

First Team Manager Jonathan Morgan said, “It’s a fantastic day for the club, I feel it’s thoroughly deserved, and something that we have worked towards for the past four years.”

“We have quietly and patiently been setting up an infrastructure to be rivalled by many, and we are delighted that The FA have seen our vision.”

“Rest assured that work has already begun for next season, putting into practice our infrastructure. We will know focus on bringing in key competitive players to help cement ourselves in the FA Women’s Championship.”

On the new season ahead; “I am thoroughly looking forward to the challenge ahead, and I know that everyone at the club are as well. Commiserations to those teams who haven’t made it, but congratulations to the other teams who were successful.”

The club would like to place on record their thanks to a number of key stakeholders in the application process, including, Leicester City Football Club, Quorn AFC, Brooksby Melton College, Spire Leicester Hospital and the Tier 2 bid team.

Leicester City Women would like to thank Carol West, Chairman of the FA Women’s Premier League, for giving the club a platform to facilitate our growth over the past years.

 

 

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davieG

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Is this an integral part of LCFC or one of the independent City of Leicester women's teams?

davieG

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It's all about Man Utd though on Sky sports - http://www.skysports.com/football/news/28508/11388053/manchester-united-granted-fa-womens-championship-place-with-west-ham-in-super-league

 

No less than we expect from them.

 

Manchester United have been granted a place in the FA Women's Championship next season with West Ham Ladies joining the FA Women's Super League.

A total of 23 licences have been handed out, with West Ham's arrival in the top division taking the number of teams to 11, while 12 will participate in the newly-structured Championship.

United are relaunching a women's team ahead of the 2018-19 season, having scrapped their squad back in 2005.

They are one of five new teams joining the Championship next season, one of those - Charlton Athletic Women - having secured promotion through the play-offs on Sunday.

Leicester City Women, Lewes FC Women and Sheffield United Ladies were also approved during the FA's open application phase.

The FA's Head of Women's Football Baroness Sue Campbell said: "Today's announcement is the result of two years of planning and a milestone within our delivery of The Gameplan for Growth strategy.

"The revised competition structure will positively impact on the delivery of the women's game across all levels, both on and off the pitch.

"Such is the strength of women's football in this country, there have been some difficult decisions to make but they've been made with the sport's best interests at heart. This is a hugely exciting time for the game and I am hopeful that we will look back upon this as one of the most significant decisions made in its history."

Fixtures in both leagues will begin on the weekend of September 8 and 9, with the opening round of Continental League Cup group fixtures kicking off the season on the weekend of August 18 and 19.

FA Women's Super League 2018-19: Arsenal, Birmingham City Ladies, Brighton & Hove Albion Women, Bristol City Women, Chelsea FC Women, Everton Ladies FC, Liverpool Ladies FC, Manchester City Women, Reading FC Women, Yeovil Town Ladies, West Ham United Ladies.

The FA Women's Championship 2018-19: Aston Villa Ladies FC, Doncaster Rovers Belles, Durham Women FC, London Bees, Millwall Lionesses, Sheffield FC Ladies, Tottenham Hotspur Ladies, Charlton Athletic Women, Leicester City Women, Lewes FC Women, Manchester United Women, Sheffield United Ladies.

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urban.spaceman

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1 hour ago, davieG said:

Is this an integral part of LCFC or one of the independent City of Leicester women's teams?

The connected one it looks like. They get last season's kits whereas the other one is connected only by name. 

urban.spaceman

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3 hours ago, ChiefFox said:

Leicester City Women have been accepted into the FA Women's Championship for the 2018/19 season! 

 

http://lcwfc.com/leicester-city-women-fc-tier-2-bid/

 

A fantastic achievement for the Women's team who have grown on and off the pitch this season, and as chairman Rohan Morgan has stated, he is delighted "that The FA has seen their vision". 

 

Great news! I hope this means that LCWFC will be having a closer relationship with LCFC going forward.

Tuna

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13 minutes ago, danny2997 said:

So what does this actually mean for them? 

I think it means they have been given tier two status :thumbup:

berniethebolt

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Superb news for all in city especially the girls at grass roots who now have a clear option to reach the top. It certainly should be promoted a lot more.

 

LCFC women are now pretty much a professional outfit and one league off the elite womens level. My understanding is they have some England youth girls in the squad now and everything is progressing nicely. 

 

I hope the club will back them as such to cement the championship status they have just earned and then kick on to the next level.

 

 

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