Hannah Dingley will become the first woman to take charge of a men’s senior side – although in an interim basis for now – as she is appointed caretaker manager of Forest Green Rovers.
Dingley is already the head of academy at the League Two club and took training with the first team on Tuesday after the departure of Duncan Ferguson as manager.
She is expected to be in charge on Wednesday night when Forest Green play non-league side Melksham Town in their first pre-season friendly.
The 39-year-old will remain at the helm while the club’s owner Dale Vince searches for a new permanent manager to replace Ferguson after the Scot’s poor spell in charge.
The Everton hero was appointed manager in January and won just one of his 18 games in charge as Forest Green were relegated from League One.
Dingley told the BBC earlier this year that she expected a woman to be in charge of a men’s team in the near future, saying: ‘It will come in sooner than you think.
‘The success that the Lionesses are having, that Emma Hayes is having at Chelsea. There are others, really good female coaches out there who I have more than faith in would be more than capable of coaching at a men’s level.
‘They’re players at the end of the day. It’s football at the end of the day, that doesn’t change. I don’t think it’ll be long before you see a female on the touchline.’
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