Sarina Wiegman: What’s next for England manager?
Date: 26 June 2025
Analysis: Why England Women’s head coach, Phil Neville’s successors and Sarina Wiegman’s contract (and 2022 Euros) make all the sense in the worldveedor_SelectedIndexChanged explained
“I’ve got an amazing squad and I think it’s important that we do better next summer if we do that we’ll take that claim to win the World Cup [in 2023] and we’re setting out to win the Euros and we’ve got the squad that’s full of talent to do that so it’s a huge year ahead.”
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That’s the FA saying that they will back Sarina Wiegman to the ends of the earth in the England Women job post-Euro-world, whatever happens. It examines her contract settlement, succession planning and the cutthroat pack of teams England are on course to meet.
- Unconditional Support for Sarina Wiegman:
Key Fact: Sarina Wiegman will still be in charge of England even if the Lionesses flop at the Euros in this summer’s group stages.
Quote: “There are no conditions under which they live and never can have lived in Biegman’s generation of men, in which the pressure is anywhere near as intense. This is faith in Wiegman as a coach, and it is faith in how she wants her team to play in the future. - Contract Status and Future Negotiations:
Key Fact: Wiegman has a contract through 2027.
Key Fact: Bullingham “recognises that they’ve not had a conversation about extending it” This is presumably the signal that Wiegman isn’t there yet─ she also isn’t even being given such a contract extension beyond 2027 In other words she’s comfortable at present, but until she demonstrates that she’s capable of delivering the goals the FA has set for her (being the pinnacle of investing in and developing women’s football), her job security could well be lessened than what it was previously Any form of extension to her contract now would be on a whim and not on proof of the pudding. - Re: Planning for Succession? Acknowledged But Too Early:
Key fact: “We haven’t done a succession plan in the meantime,” said the FA’s director of women’s football, Baroness Campbell. That would suggest that the F.A. has worked out that it ought to have a plan, although for some reason it’s not much of a thought.
What could go wrong: It also muses on possibly the biggest issue for any successor down the line: “When Wiegman does eventually decide to step away from the Lionesses because … well, let’s face it, she’s probably take with her, her general manager and most of the bathroom staff too.” Will almost guarantee a mass walkout of the more experienced backroom team and turn what was always going to be a clumsy transition into yet more of a farce.
FA’s Gold standard: Bullingham “What we have done has had in England, succession planning from Gareth Southgate to Thomas Tuchel on the men’s side and what the FA had with that. That is, one would think, how the FA will see things, that the last one of these runs – of successful experience of dealing with high-profile change at manager level among men – will fall in their favour, even if the nature of the sphere in which the Wiegman fantasy of departure is framed can be seen to be different.
- Euros: Form and Group Stage:
Expectations: For actually, there is an appetite for women’s football – and an expectation going into the Euros: “They are high,” Bullingham says on that front around the Lionesses. He “knows England can win”.
Competition, but he also admits: “there’s plenty of sides in the same boat” – competition (not all of it friendly) which lends a genuinely competitive air to this tournament, in which England are by no means the only and certainly not the biggest beasts of burden.
‘Death group… ‘England were pitted alongside France, the Netherlands and Wales in the group of death.
Challenge: “It’s a challenging group, the defending champions aren’t just going to be lying down, having to play knockout football”, England would be “in a battle to get out of a very difficult group.”
Start of Tournament: The tournament is scheduled to start in Switzerland this week April 16, 2020
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