Arsenal Women confirm Renee Slegers as new head coach
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Arsenal Women have appointed Renee Slegers as their new head coach. Slegers has been in interim charge of Arsenal since October when Jonas Eidevall resigned. The 35-year-old has enjoyed an unbeaten run of 10 wins and one draw, with Arsenal scoring 31 goals and conceding just five, and she has now signed a contract through to the end of the 2025/26 season.
Slegers was awarded the Women’s Super League Manager of the Month award in December, while a run of five wins on the spins saw the Gunners top their Champions League group. “I’m so excited to be continuing our journey together.” said Slegers. “It’s a wonderful honour to represent this club as head coach and I have so much belief in what we can all achieve together.
“Over the past few months, I’ve felt such a powerful sense of collective ownership and responsibility across our players and staff – that has been our strength and I know we will make sure we drive and nurture this feeling as we all move forward.
“It has meant the world to me to feel the closeness and passion of our supporters during this process, and I want to thank you all for that. We want to deliver something beautiful that’s inspiring and leads to winning trophies. We all have a big part to play in achieving that.”.
Slegers joined Arsenal as an assistant coach last summer after a two-year spell as a manager of Swedish club Rosengard, where she won back-to-back league titles. Slegers moved into coaching after a successful playing career, which included time spent with Arsenal’s youth academy. She won 55 caps for the Netherlands before retiring in 2016.
