READING WOMEN will go part-time following the workforce shedding their battle for WSL survival on the finish of final season.
The Royals had been relegated to the second tier in Could after a run of 17 losses from 22 WSL video games.
Studying are switching to a part-time working mannequin following their drop into the Ladies’s ChampionshipCredit score: PA
Kelly Chambers’ Royals’ facet had been relegated from the WSL following their loss to Chelsea on the ultimate day of final seasonCredit score: Getty
The membership says the monetary commitments wanted for his or her ladies’s facet to satisfy FA necessities has “grown exponentially in recent times”.
Additionally they said their relegation from the WSL will “lead to a major drop in broadcast charges and central funding from the FA”.
Final time period the Royals accrued 11 factors from three wins and two attracts with the workforce returning to the Ladies’s Championship for first time since 2015
And their drop adopted Studying’s males’s facet’s relegation to League One following a six-point deduction in April after a breach of EFL monetary guidelines.
Earlier than their relegation the Royals had been the one workforce within the Ladies’s Tremendous League who weren’t affiliated to a Premier League membership.
In a press release printed on their site Studying stated their proprietor Dai Yongge has been funding the previous WSL outfit from his personal pocket since 2018.
They are saying the Chinese language businessman “wanted to supply slightly below £1million to finance” the ladies’s workforce final season.
Yongge was additionally said to have personally invested £6million within the WSL outfit since 2018.
Royals CEO Dayong Pang stated: “Tough however crucial monetary selections are being made throughout the enterprise following the membership’s relegation to League One final season.
“After discussions with the FA, the choice to function Studying FC Ladies on a part-time foundation represents probably the most viable answer nowadays
“We wish to acknowledge the entire arduous work and unquestionable dedication to Studying Soccer Membership of Kelly Chambers and her teaching workers, the gamers and all of the workers.
“The membership will now be working extraordinarily arduous to construct a workforce to proudly signify our city within the WSL Championship within the 2023-24 marketing campaign.”
Numerous WSL stars previous and current have been reacting the information with dismay.
In a tweet printed in the present day Lionesses legend Fara Williams said she was “gutted for employees and gamers”.
The midfielder, now a pundit who made 67 Royals appearances, additionally wrote she was “devastated” to see this occur to her former facet.