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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Tom Garry

Bristol City Women outline ‘maverick and progressive’ plan for young players

Lexi Lloyd-Smith bursts away from Portsmouth’s Georgie Freeland in the Women's Championship.
Lexi Lloyd-Smith bursts away from Portsmouth’s Georgie Freeland (right) in Bristol City Women's 1-0 Championship win at Ashton Gate on Sunday. Photograph: Dan Istitene/The FA/Getty

Bristol City have outlined a plan to become “the destination of choice” for England’s most talented young women’s players’ and drive revenue through player sales, in a new and unique-looking women’s club strategy for the next three years.

The Women’s Championship club, founding members of the Women’s Super League in 2011 under their previous name, Bristol Academy, say they want to inspire their community by providing a pathway to play for England. They believe that recent rises in transfer fees in the global women’s game will make their philosophy of developing youngsters and selling them on a feasible model for the first time in women’s football.

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