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Gareth Taylor, the former manager of Manchester City Women, has been appointed head coach of Liverpool FC Women(Image: Ben Roberts – Danehouse\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nLiverpool FC Women have confirmed Gareth Taylor as their new head coachGareth Taylor, the former manager of Manchester City Women, has been appointed head coach of Liverpool FC Women(Image: Ben Roberts – Danehouse\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Liverpool FC Women have confirmed Gareth Taylor as their new head coach – ending a six-month wait to find a permanent successor to Matt Beard. Taylor has been appointed having most recently been in charge of Manchester City Women, who he parted ways with in March.<\/p>\n
The 52-year-old spent five years in charge at City where he won the Women’s FA Cup<\/a> and League Cup<\/a> while missing out on the Women’s Super League title on goal difference in 2024.<\/p>\n Amber Whiteley, who acted as Liverpool FC Women’s<\/a> interim head coach following the departure of Beard in February, will remain with the Reds as assistant coach, while Taylor’s former assistant Chad Gribble will form part of the new-look backroom staff.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Arne Slot explains Mohamed Salah replacement plan after Liverpool transfer decision<\/a>READ MORE: Arne Slot responds to Alexander Isak transfer and Liverpool centre-back questions – ‘As you know’<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI am delighted to have been appointed as Liverpool\u2019s new head coach,” said Taylor.<\/p>\n \u201cEveryone in football knows about the history, size and potential of this club, and I am really looking forward to the task ahead.<\/p>\n \u201cOur aim is to create a team that supporters can be proud of, which plays good football and which will hopefully bring success along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n Taylor has extensive coaching experience having worked at the men’s Academy at City for several years before taking over the women’s side in 2020. He previously had an 18-year playing career during which he won 15 caps for Wales.<\/p>\n His first game in charge of Liverpool FC<\/a> Women will be Saturday\u2019s behind-closed-doors friendly against Aston Villa at Bodymoor Heath training ground (kick off 2pm), with the Reds building up to the start of the WSL season against Everton<\/a> at Anfield<\/a> on September 7.<\/p>\n Liverpool FC Women managing director Andy O\u2019Boyle said: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely delighted to welcome Gareth to the club.<\/p>\n \u201cThis has been a very detailed process and it was clear that Gareth was the outstanding candidate. He has a proven track record of building successful, identity-driven teams and his ability to develop players and help them reach the next level is second to none.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a very clear vision of how we will return LFC Women to the upper echelons of the game and this is a crucial step on that journey.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want our team playing with a clear identity as a Liverpool team, playing Liverpool football in front of passionate Liverpool fans.<\/p>\n \u201cGareth shares that vision and we believe he has the qualities and experience to deliver it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool FC Women have confirmed Gareth Taylor as their new head coachGareth Taylor, the former manager of Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,7886,44591,85],"class_list":["post-53476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-women","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}