Leicester have sacked ladies’s first-team boss Willie Kirk after the membership decided the Scot had “breached the workforce’s code of conduct to a level that makes his place untenable”.
The 45-year-old final took cost of the Foxes once they misplaced 4-0 within the Girls’s Tremendous League to Chelsea on March 3, earlier than the membership subsequently introduced that Kirk was “aiding the membership with an inner course of” and wouldn’t be on the touchline for his or her March 9 FA Cup quarter-final.
Kirk’s then-assistant Jennifer Foster, supported by first workforce coach Stephen Kirby, oversaw that 2-0 victory and have remained on the helm since.
Leicester Metropolis Soccer Membership can affirm that Willie Kirk has been dismissed from his place as LCFC Girls Supervisor.
— LCFC Girls (@LCFC_Women) March 28, 2024
They may stay in cost till Kirk’s everlasting successor is called.
A Leicester assertion learn: “Leicester Metropolis Soccer Membership can affirm that Willie Kirk has been dismissed from his place as LCFC Girls Supervisor.
“Following an intensive inner disciplinary course of and respecting the Membership’s obligations to particular person privateness, Willie was decided to have breached the workforce’s code of conduct to a level that makes his place untenable.
“Established and carried out forward of the beginning of the present season, the code varieties a part of the Membership’s ongoing dedication to professionalising the ladies’s recreation for the reason that takeover of LCFC Girls in 2020, selling a performance-led tradition amongst gamers, coaches and technical employees.
“First Workforce obligations for LCFC Girls will proceed to be led by Jennifer Foster, supported by Stephen Kirby, whereas the Membership begins the method of appointing a brand new everlasting supervisor.”