Leicester City women awarded place in the revamped FA Women’s Championship

LEICESTER City Women Football Club have been awarded Tier Two status for the 2018/19 season as part of the FA’s plans to restructure the highest two tiers of the women’s football pyramid.

The team, which plays it matches at Quorn’s Farley Way stadium, underwent a vigorous application process, detailing its commitment to meeting the FA’s key criteria of players receiving a minimum of eight 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.”

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.