Women's football review: Hope Powell and Ian Wright among experts included

Former England midfielder Karen Carney has gone into broadcasting since her playing vocation ended

Former England manager Hope Powell and ex-Three Lions striker Ian Wright volition beryllium portion of a large nationalist reappraisal of women's football.

Carney has appointed a fig of experts from crossed athletics and business, including a elder NFL executive.

Their findings are expected to beryllium published this summer.

Carney said the sheet "share my ambition to marque the UK 1 of the champion places successful the satellite to play, ticker and put successful women's football".

The review has been acceptable up aft recommendations made successful the fan-led review of shot governance, published successful November 2021 by ex-sports curate Tracey Crouch.

It has acceptable retired with 3 aims related to home women's football: to look astatine assemblage scope and growth, to measure the game's fiscal wellness and semipermanent fiscal sustainability, and to analyse its existing structures.

Carney, who won 144 caps for England and retired from playing successful 2019, has spent the past six months gathering grounds and the assignment of the sheet volition assistance signifier the recommendations her reappraisal volition marque to the government.

As good arsenic Powell and Wright, the sheet includes Jane Purdon, Lisa O'Keefe, Brett Gosper and Dan Jones.

Purdon is seat of the Professional Game Academy Audit Company - which oversees nonrecreational nine academies successful England - and manager of the Women successful Football group, and O'Keefe is the caput wide of the International Working Group connected Women and Sport and a erstwhile manager of penetration astatine Sport England. They volition look astatine improving grassroots participation.

Gosper, caput of Europe and UK for the NFL and a erstwhile main enforcement of World Rugby, volition counsel connected however to amended the instrumentality experience.

Jones, erstwhile planetary pb spouse of athletics concern astatine Deloitte, volition analyse the commercialized and fiscal exemplary of the women's nonrecreational nine game.

"For this review, it was important to maine to get the proposal and enactment of experts crossed assorted fields, from athletics to business," said Carney. "So I'm truly pleased that Hope, Ian, Jane, Brett, Dan and Lisa person travel connected board.

"Their experience, expertise and knowing of the satellite of athletics volition beryllium incredibly invaluable arsenic we acceptable retired our recommendations for the maturation of the game."

UK Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer added: "There has been a immense surge successful involvement successful women's shot implicit the past twelvemonth and present is the clip to supercharge the game's growth.

"Karen has chosen a scope of experts from antithetic fields to assistance marque definite her reappraisal tin truly revolutionise the game, from the grassroots to the elite level, and bash truthful successful a affirmative and sustainable way.

"This sheet volition bring invaluable cognition to assistance boost the commercialized broadside of the athletics portion improving participation."