Scottish Ladies’s Soccer is delighted to announce that its Championship and League One will obtain file funding after becoming a member of the Barclays Soccer household.
Barclays was and is the primary title sponsor of the Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League and Barclays Ladies’s Championship in England and now turns into the first-ever title sponsor of the Barclays Scottish Ladies’s Championship and Barclay’s Scottish Ladies’s League One, the third and fourth tier of ladies’s soccer in Scotland.
The leagues signify the bridge between regional grassroots soccer and the Scottish Ladies’s Premier League, with one of the best regional groups promoted to League One and the highest two Championship groups supplied the chance to hitch the SWPL via the promotion and play-off system.
The leagues even have vital geographic attain, from Queen of the South in Dumfries to Inverness Caledonian Thistle within the Highlands.
The brand new partnership extends Barclays’ record-breaking assist for girls’s soccer into Scotland for the primary time, working for 3 years and underlining the financial institution’s dedication to soccer in any respect ranges.
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Commenting, Scottish Ladies’s Soccer CEO Aileen Campbell mentioned: “Barclays have performed such a pivotal position within the development of the ladies’s recreation south of the border, so it’s an thrilling second to welcome their backing for SWF’s ongoing improvement of the pyramid construction in Scotland.
“The Championship and League One grew to become nationwide leagues to maintain up with the astonishing development in ladies’s soccer in Scotland, to assist enhance the usual of grassroots soccer and supply a route for golf equipment to understand their aspirations to play within the Premier Leagues.
“As a first-ever title sponsor, the assist of Barclays will additional elevate the aspirations and visibility of the ladies who play in these leagues, with a knock-on profit for all of ladies’s soccer in Scotland.”
Tom Corbett, Head of Sponsorship mentioned: “Barclays has a well-established and purposeful relationship with soccer spanning over 20 years. From the 23-year lengthy relationship with the Premier League to the most important funding into ladies’s sport ever by a model again in 2019 once we grew to become the primary title sponsor of what’s now the Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League.
“This partnership is one other nice step ahead in strengthening our assist of the soccer pyramid throughout the UK, and we’re excited to work alongside Scottish Ladies’s Soccer to assist the expansion of the ladies’s recreation in Scotland.”
Koral Anderson, Head of Transformation for Barclays UK and Scotland Web site Lead mentioned: “As certainly one of Scotland’s largest monetary providers firms, I’m proud that Barclays are extending our soccer sponsorship into Scotland. Primarily based from our flagship campus in Glasgow, we’re dedicated to supporting thriving native communities via entry to sport and are excited to play our half in rising gender range within the recreation.”
To mark the beginning of the brand new partnership and to preview the brand new season kicking off on Sunday 11 August, representatives from Scottish Ladies’s Soccer and Barclays have been joined by gamers from the 23 groups competing within the Barclays Scottish Ladies’s Championship and Barclay’s Scottish Ladies’s League One on the iconic new Barclays campus on the banks of the Clyde.
