Sonia Bompastor to become Chelsea Women Head Coach | News | Official Site

Chelsea Soccer Membership is delighted to substantiate Sonia Bompastor will develop into Head Coach of the ladies’s group from the beginning of the 2024/25 season.

Having spent three seasons accountable for Lyon in her native France, the 43-year-old will start her new function on 1 July 2024 after signing a four-year contract.

Bompastor will exchange the long-serving Emma Hayes who departed Chelsea upon the conclusion of the 2023/24 season after almost 12 years accountable for the Blues.

Paul Inexperienced, common supervisor, mentioned: ‘The sporting administrators and I performed a radical and thought of recruitment course of to determine Emma’s successor. Sonia’s imaginative and prescient, teaching philosophy and profitable mentality made her the excellent candidate.

‘She is a world-class coach with a confirmed monitor document of success on the most important levels that can immediately command respect from the dressing room.’

Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, Chelsea’s co-sporting administrators, added: ‘Sonia is the best candidate to construct on Emma’s legacy and take the group ahead.

‘She brings a wealth of expertise from managing on the highest ranges and profitable trophies as a participant and a coach. Her ethos and values align with Chelsea Soccer Membership. We’re all trying ahead to having her on board.’

Bompastor mentioned: ‘I’m extremely grateful to affix Chelsea Soccer Membership as the top coach of the ladies’s group. It’s an establishment in English soccer. I’ll give my all to this new challenge to satisfy the ambitions of the membership, the workers and the gamers.

‘I hope to reside as much as Emma’s legacy and proceed the work that has been performed in recent times. Let the journey start.’

The 43-year-old was capped 156 instances by the French nationwide group earlier than retiring in 2013 to take up a training place with Lyon’s Academy. In April 2021, she grew to become first group head coach and has loved a lot success throughout her time within the function, profitable the Division 1 Female title within the final three seasons.

She led Lyon to a league and European double throughout her first full season in cost, turning into the primary individual to win the UEFA Girls’s Champions League as each a participant and a head coach.

Sonia shall be accompanied by her assistants Camille Abily and Theo Rivrin. Abily retired in 2018 after an achieved enjoying profession by which she made 323 appearances for Lyon and earned 183 nationwide group caps for France.

Welcome to Chelsea, Sonia!