Gareth Taylor has signed a one-year contract extension with Manchester Metropolis Girls.
Taylor – whose deal was attributable to expire on the finish of June – was initially appointed in Could 2020 and received his first trophy quickly after with victory over Everton within the Girls’s FA Cup remaining.
Man Metropolis have additionally received the Conti Cup in March 2022 below Taylor’s management, beating Chelsea 3-1, in addition to reaching the FA Cup remaining in the identical season. Nevertheless, they had been overwhelmed by the Blues at Wembley on that event.
Nevertheless, regardless of a 16-game unbeaten run through the 2022/23 marketing campaign, Man Metropolis missed out on Champions League soccer, ending fourth within the WSL behind Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal. Additionally they reached the semi-finals and quarter finals of the Conti Cup and FA Cup respectively.
After signing his new deal, Taylor advised the membership’s official web site: “I am very glad to have signed a brand new cope with the Membership – it feels nice to have gotten it over the road.
“I am very glad to have the ability to decide to Metropolis for one more season, and 2023/24 is one which I am so enthusiastic about.
“We’ve got been in a transitional interval over the previous 12 months, and the ladies’s sport has modified a lot throughout my three years in cost.
“We had been lucky to win trophies in every of my first two seasons, and though we’ve not been profitable on that entrance this previous yr, the delight I’ve taken has come in numerous kinds.
“I’ve actually felt that it has been so pleasant by way of the place the group is at, the place I feel that they will go and what they will obtain for this soccer membership.
“I do know that there’s strain on us to succeed, however I get pleasure from that – I’ve at all times challenged myself all through my profession and that is now extra vital than ever as a coach.
“I actually wish to attempt to squeeze each single final drop out of what I really feel I will do personally, and I imagine that this group of gamers have the power to show these practically moments into precise moments with the help of myself and the employees to get us to the following stage.”
Managing director Gavin Makel added: “We’re very happy to have Gareth commit himself to the Membership for one more yr.
“Collectively, we’re constructing an thrilling group filled with proficient gamers, each younger and skilled, all with a shared imaginative and prescient of lovely soccer and on-pitch success.
“Gareth is somebody who embraces the Metropolis Soccer Group methodology in its entirety, and it has been actually pleasing to see him develop as a coach over the previous three years.
“Nils (Nielsen) and I are very a lot wanting ahead to persevering with our work with him subsequent season alongside this superb group of gamers, with the longer term being extremely brilliant for Manchester Metropolis.”





