League Two side Forest Green Rovers have named Hannah Dingley as their new caretaker boss, making her the first woman to manage a professional men’s team on English turf.
The club sacked Duncan Ferguson on Tuesday after six months in charge and announced that academy manager Dingley would step up and be put in caretaker charge of the team.
The 39-year-old started her career as a senior lecturer in sports coaching practice upon graduation from Loughborough College in Course Leader HND Sport and exercise science, whilst also working as an academy coach at Notts County in 2011, a men’s Under-19 team and a local non-league club.
