Melissa Andreatta, assistant coach of Australia’s Matildas, has been introduced as Scotland Ladies’s new head coach.
Andreatta is the everlasting substitute for Pedro Martinez Losa, who was sacked in December after failing to qualify for Euro 2025.
The previous Australian A-League coach is anticipated to take over in time for Scotland’s Nations League match towards Austria on the finish of Might.
The 46-year-old has an intensive CV throughout the girls’s sport and supported Tony Gustavsson throughout Australia’s fourth-placed end on the Ladies’s World Cup in 2023 and final 12 months’s Olympic Video games in Paris.
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Pedro Martinez Losa was sacked in December as Scotland missed out on Euro 2025 qualification
Andreatta stated: “I am completely delighted to be main Scotland Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce into a brand new, thrilling period.
“It is an actual honour to hitch such a powerful programme, which you’ll be able to see from the expertise within the senior squad, which runs by way of the entire age teams. That is testomony to the work that is been executed already by Michael McArdle and the staff.
“The long run is unquestionably shiny and with my intensive teaching, expertise improvement and main event expertise, my goal is to assist the gamers and employees to succeed in their fullest potential.
“The ambition is to get Scotland again to constant qualification and with the squad in a interval of transition, that is the proper alternative to start out constructing in the direction of that future.”
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Scotland Ladies final reached a significant event when Shelley Kerr’s facet featured on the 2019 World Cup in France. It was a second successive finals look.
Martinez Losa was appointed after Kerr’s staff missed out on the following European Championships, with the Spaniard additionally dropping a World Cup play-off towards Republic of Eire in 2022.
Scotland then misplaced to Finland within the play-off for the 2025 event, with the staff falling brief of their quest to qualify for the 2023 World Cup too.
Scotland’s final match below McArdle was a 6-1 defeat away to Germany
Michael McArdle – who had been working carefully alongside Martinez Losa in his function as the top of girls’s elite Soccer – was in non permanent cost of the staff.
It’s understood McArdle was eager on the job however after 4 defeats in his 4 video games as interim head coach, he returns to his earlier function.
Michael McArdle was in interim cost however misplaced all 4 Nations League matches
Ian Maxwell, Scottish FA CEO added: “Firstly, I want to thank Michael for his professionalism all through this course of and for stepping-up and taking cost of the nationwide staff on an interim foundation following Pedro’s departure.
“That the ultimate shortlist comprised candidates from three totally different continents reveals the large attraction of main the Scotland Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce. Melissa offered a breadth of various experiences in any respect ranges of the ladies’s sport in Australia. She is a valued member of the Matildas’ teaching employees but in addition has duty for growing elite youth gamers inside a revered efficiency system.
“I’m positive I converse on behalf of the gamers after I say we’re all trying ahead to Melissa beginning her new function. I additionally reiterate my because of Michael, who may have a pivotal half to play in serving to Melissa and the ladies’s nationwide groups succeed sooner or later.”
Scotland Ladies’s Nations League fixtures
- Might 30: Austria (H) – TBC
- June 3: Netherlands (A) – TBC
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