London Metropolis Lionesses have secured promotion to the Girls’s Tremendous League for the primary time following a dramatic four-goal thriller with Birmingham.
The membership, who have been solely based in 2019, clinched the Girls’s Championship title by drawing 2-2 towards the Blues at St Andrew’s on Sunday.
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In doing so, they prevented their opponents from leapfrogging them into prime spot on the ultimate day.
Birmingham had wanted to beat London Metropolis in an effort to snatch the title and a spot in subsequent season’s WSL.
Targets from Isobel Goodwin and Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah put the guests 2-0 up, earlier than the hosts fought again.
Nonetheless, they may solely salvage a degree by way of Emily van Egmond and Cho So-hyun’s strikes.
It means London Metropolis ended the marketing campaign two factors away from their title rivals to disclaim Birmingham a second promotion of the season.
The lads’s group had already gained League One with a record-breaking factors tally to return to the Championship having been aided by the monetary backing of People Tom Wagner and Tom Brady.
NFL legend Brady issued a rallying cry to Birmingham followers forward of the conflict, as he stated on X: “One recreation, one win, and so they’re promoted to the Girls’s Tremendous League.
“They’ve labored so onerous all yr lengthy for this second, and now it’s time for us to point out up.”
Earlier than including: “Now let’s pack that place once more and get behind our girls.
“Let’s assist them carry that trophy and convey house some {hardware} of their very own.”
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However as a substitute, it’s London Metropolis’s billionaire proprietor Michele Kang celebrating after shopping for the membership final summer season.
She added the newly-promoted facet to her current portfolio of golf equipment, which incorporates Washington Spirit and Lyon.
London Metropolis will now be the one fully-independent membership in subsequent season’s WSL.
Following the match, Kang advised talkSPORT: “Surreal. We have been hoping, however all the time making an attempt to be real looking and I am simply so past excited for our gamers, for our followers and for our employees.
“That is only a nice day. What a recreation it was as properly. Oh my goodness. It was not good for my coronary heart, however I feel it was good for general followers to get enthusiastic about girls’s soccer and the way thrilling the sport may very well be.
“So the truth that it was additionally on Sky and BBC, simply greater than we are able to hope for.”
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The match was the primary Girls’s Championship fixture ever to be broadcast reside on Sky Sports activities.
Kang added: “After I first got here to England and acquired London Metropolis, everybody, lots of people have been very involved for me that how may she do that?
“There is not any males’s group in England. You want a males’s group to attract the model energy, the fan base and assets.
“An unbiased group couldn’t do it. Properly, we’re proof that with the correct funding and focus, something is feasible.”
All 12 golf equipment on this season’s WSL are affiliated to a present Premier League facet.
London Metropolis, in the meantime, have been fashioned in 2019 after breaking away from Millwall Lionesses.
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Kang might be aiming to keep away from repeating the outcomes for the final two golf equipment promoted to the WSL.
Bristol Metropolis and Crystal Palace have each didn’t keep away from speedy returns to the second tier since 2023.
She has backed former Paris Saint-Germain supervisor Jocelyn Precheur to steer London Metropolis to security, although, explaining: “From day one, the truth that I introduced Jocelyn as our head coach, we have been really constructing for form of the mid-tier WSL group.
“Clearly, we nonetheless have much more to do when it comes to roster and all that. However we have been all the time constructing from day one at a minimal mid-tier WSL group in order that we do not comply with that sample that you just get promoted and the following yr you get demoted.
“Actually, our sporting director and recruiting administrators are assembly really 9 o’clock within the morning tomorrow to plan for the following season. And we have an thrilling plan forward.”
In addition to appointing Precheur, Kang additionally invested closely within the enjoying squad, together with the signing of Swedish worldwide Kosovare Asllani.
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The London Metropolis captain has hailed their proprietor, revealing: “Simply keep in mind the title, as a result of I stated it after I signed, when nobody within the soccer world the place I am from, like in Europe, knew about London Metropolis Lionesses.
“I stated within the press convention, keep in mind the title, and I say the identical now, as a result of I feel when you might have the suitable funding, we’ve Michele that has the ambition of making a successful group and giving us the perfect assets, then you definitely wish to go all the best way, even in WSL, clearly.”
Asllani beforehand featured for the likes of PSG, Manchester Metropolis, Actual Madrid and AC Milan earlier than becoming a member of London Metropolis.
The WSL winner additionally has 196 caps for Sweden and has appeared on the final three Girls’s World Cups.