Chelsea won a fourth successive WSL title in 2022-23 under manager Emma HayesA takeover of the Women’s Super League has been planned for some time and looks set to finally be completed next year with a target date of August 2024 now in place.The Football Association has overseen the growth of professionalism in the WSL since 2010 and introduced a second tier – now called the Women’s Championship – in 2014.An independently club-owned, club-run body is poised to takeover over those two leagues next year as the English women’s game looks to capitalise on its rapid rise, accelerated by the Lionesses’ success at Euro 2022.Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA’s director of women’s football, said there had been “a real acceptance that the women’s game needs to be managed differently, run differently and we’ve had some really honest and exciting conversations”.BBC Sport looks at what changes could be made and how the takeover will happen.What does the process look like?The FA’s head of women’s football Baroness Sue Campbell alongside chief executive Mark BullinghamThe FA revealed in 2018 that it had no intention to run the professional leagues in the long-term so it welcomed proposals – including from the Premier League – before settling on the creation of an independent body, which they had originally planned to give the reins to last summer.With help from the FA Board, it formed a working group of 10 chief executives from clubs in the top two tiers of English women’s football.The group, chaired by Arsenal… Click below to read the full story from BBC Sport
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