The club can confirm that Maria Tavares has left her position as the manager of the women’s first team.

Maria joined the club in the summer and oversaw a promising start to the 2025 26 season with six wins in the first two months but with four of those victories coming in the cup and with five defeats in our past six matches our league form has left us significantly short of the targets we all agreed for the league at the start of this season. The club has taken the decision to make this change with immediate effect following a detailed review process and has begun a transition plan to provide the team with the support they need.

We would like to thank Maria for her hard work and wish her the best for the future.

Our focus now is on our final game of 2025 when we host Luton Town at Champion Hill this Sunday and hope fans will be there to support the players and the coaching team before we take the time over the holidays to review our longer-term plans.