FIFA rules women’s teams must have a woman as head or assistant coach‎

Every women’s team will have to include at least two women as staff members on the bench — with one of them being either the head coach or assistant coach — as part of new regulations FIFA has agreed to introduce. This will be implemented at all women’s FIFA competitions, both at country and club level, effective immediately. The first tournament under the rule will be the Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Poland in September. The decision was taken at Thursday’s FIFA Council meeting and it comes af