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Manchester United’s Polly Bancroft is about to go away her function of Head of Girls’s Soccer on the finish of the season.
United confirmed her departure this afternoon and mentioned she would turn into the CEO of Grimsby City FC, who’re within the fourth tier of the EFL.
Bancroft arrived at United in October 2022 to imagine the function of the newly-created Head of Girls’s Soccer.
She had beforehand labored at Brighton and Hove Albion in the identical place.
She was tasked with overseeing the strategic route, operations and efficiency of the ladies’s first workforce and academy.
Her first huge problem on the membership was to barter contract extensions for Alessia Russo and Ona Batlle on the finish of final season, nevertheless she was unsuccessful.
Batlle went to Barcelona on a free switch while Russo went to WSL rivals Arsenal.
It’s thought Bancroft’s departure is part of INEOS’ bid to restructure forward of the summer season switch window.
In addition to supporting head coach Marc Skinner and his workers, Bancroft is credited by United for serving to ship main enhancements in infrastructure for the ladies’s workforce, together with a brand new elite coaching facility at Carrington.
Below her tenure, there was development within the assist base and revenues for the ladies’s workforce, with persistently rising attendances for video games at Leigh Sports activities Village and over 150,000 tickets bought for WSL video games at Outdated Trafford.
Bancroft will proceed in her function till the tip of the season while a seek for her successor is beneath approach.
It’s thought that is the primary of many adjustments United followers will see throughout each the lads’s and girls’s workforce as Sir Jim Ratcliffe appears to reshape United.
