Leicester Metropolis girls have fun their girls’s title and promotion to the Tremendous League for girls by taking part in their first ever match at King Energy Stadium on 2 Might.
The Foxes mathematically sealed their prime flight match with a 2-0 victory over the London Metropolis Lionesses in early April after which performed away towards Lewes of their most up-to-date outing. However the upcoming recreation towards Charlton has been moved from the crew’s common dwelling area to King Energy.
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Leicester secured the ladies’s title earlier this month and will likely be handed the trophy | Matthew Lewis / Getty Pictures
It’s the final match of the 2020/21 season and after that the Leicester gamers can even obtain the Ladies’s Championship trophy.
It would be a get together day and a advertising get together at King Energy, which marks Leicester’s speedy rise in the ladies’s soccer pyramid. The one draw back is that followers are nonetheless not allowed to take part because it comes earlier than the subsequent step of lockdown easing that takes impact on Might 17.
The recreation will likely be obtainable at no cost on-line, both on LCFC TV by way of the membership’s official web site or by way of FA Participant. Kick-off is at 14.00 (BST) on Sunday 2 Might.
After being a 3rd tier membership as late as 2018 and following a back-to-back mid-table end within the Ladies’s Championship 2018/19 and 2019/20, Leicester turned an expert final summer season when the crew was formally taken over by King Energy’s father or mother firm.
King Energy Stadium hosts Leicester girls for the primary time Nathan Stirk / Getty Pictures
Vital investments within the taking part in squad adopted, with many gamers with prime flight expertise taken on board solely in 2020, which will increase the prevailing younger expertise.
Like Remi Allen, Sophie Howard, Esmee de Graaf and Kirstie Levell all performed within the WSL earlier than becoming a member of Leicester. In the meantime, defender Ashleigh Plumptre made the Foxes his first membership after returning dwelling from a spell that performed faculty soccer in the US, and teenage strikers Paige Bailey-Gayle and Lachante Paul each developed within the youth ranks of Arsenal.
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