Multi-club possession organisation Bay Collective has reached an settlement to aquire a majority stake in Sunderland Girls.
Already the bulk homeowners of American membership Bay FC, the organisation is led by former Soccer Affiliation director Kay Cossington.
Funding will go into bettering infrastructure, the academy and constructing the workers and participant pool at Sunderland with a “aim of rising sustainability”.
Sunderland presently sit eighth within the Girls’s Tremendous League 2 with two video games remaining within the season.
They’ve a historical past of manufacturing a few of England’s most profitable footballers, together with ex-captain Steph Houghton and European champions Jill Scott, Beth Mead and Lucy Bronze.
“We could not be extra excited to accomplice with Sunderland AFC and to write down the subsequent chapter for Sunderland Girls, a membership with such a proud historical past and robust id,” stated Cossington.
“We’re dedicated to honoring Sunderland Girls’s DNA and legacy, defending what makes this membership and group so particular, and supporting the gamers, workers, and the academy with cutting-edge assets, infrastructure, and coaching fashions tailor-made to the distinctive wants of ladies athletes.
“It is a partnership for the long-term, and our ambition is to strengthen Sunderland Girls’s reference to followers and companions whereas making a platform for sustained success on the highest ranges of the ladies’s recreation.”
