Grace Williams, director of women's football since August 2025, believes the club cannot wait around for promotion before behaving like a top-flight outfit. "The best way to explain it is the different departments that we've developed," Williams says. In October, Newcastle sacked manager Becky Langley, who had led the club through successive promotions from the fourth tier to the second. In Langley's place, the club poached Tanya Oxtoby from Northern Ireland to be their new manager. And whether promotion happens this season, or happens next season, our destiny is in our own hands, which is great, because this league is so competitive."

Source: BBC March 10, 2026 08:36 UTC