High flight ladies’s soccer is coming to Lanarkshire, with Rangers Ladies get set to ply their commerce at Broadwood Stadium.
That’s as a part of a one-year rolling programme that can see all ladies’s staff house fixtures for the 2022/23 season performed on the Cumbernauld stadium.
The brand new partnership between North Lanarkshire Council (NLC) and Rangers FC comes as the ladies’s sport is anticipated to take pleasure in a recognition enhance on the again of the Euro 2022 event held in England.
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The host nation triumphed 2-1 in Sunday’s last in opposition to Germany in entrance of almost 90,000 followers at Wembley, with the tv viewers peaking at 17.4 million for the ultimate.
NLC’s Energetic and Inventive Communities Staff hope the partnership will encourage a brand new era of budding footballers and followers to get entangled within the development and success of the ladies’s sport.
NLC depute chief, councillor Tracy Carragher, advised Lanarkshire Reside : “That is unbelievable information and one other thrilling growth for Broadwood’s footballing story.
“Ladies’s soccer is rising throughout the globe and it’s nice to see knowledgeable ladies’s staff utilizing our wonderful services and enjoying its house video games right here at Broadwood.
“I hope by having common ladies’s fixtures in our space extra folks will come alongside and watch some stay matches.
“I’d prefer to want Rangers Ladies’s staff each success for the approaching season.”
Broadwood Stadium is a SFA sliver class with the most recent LED sequence floodlight system match for Ladies’s Champions League fixtures.
The stadium provides the prospect for a capability 8000 crowd and can host all of Rangers league, cup and probably UEFA European fixtures - ought to they qualify.
Ladies’s and Women’ supervisor, Amy McDonald, stated: “We hope this will likely be an thrilling transfer for our ladies’s first-team as we relocate our house video games to Broadwood.
“We hope this transfer will give us the chance to supply a extra pleasing matchday expertise for supporters and encourage many extra to come back and assist the ladies’s sport.”
The campus contains: a nationwide degree award profitable BMX monitor; a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility; New Faculty Lanarkshire’s soccer campus; three competitors degree tennis courts and a world rugby compliant pitch, which beforehand hosted the women six nations matches.
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