Pien Meulensteen and Izzy Christiansen sign up with Sky Sports WSL group for 2023/24 season|Football News

Former England global Izzy Christiansen and analyst Pien Meulensteen will sign up with Sky Sports for the 2023/24 Barclays Women’s Super League season.

Sky Sports’ WSL season kicks-off on Sunday October 1 when champs Chelsea host London competitors Tottenham at Stamford Bridge at 5.30 pm.

Christiansen signs up with the on-screen WSL group having actually revealed her retirement on Sky Sports’ 3 Gamers and a Podcast at the end of last season after an effective 14-year profession with Everton, Birmingham City, Manchester City and Lyon, along with England.

Fresh out of the dressing space, football fans will take advantage of her understanding and insight got from having fun with and versus the present stars of the video game.

Christiansen stated: “I’m enjoyed be signing up with Sky Sports and dealing with their incomparable protection throughout males’s and ladies’s football which was type in my choice to sign up with. The 2023/24 WSL season will be interesting coming off the back of among the tightest title races for several years and a World Cup.”

Meulensteen has a wealth of experience as an analyst, press reporter and speaker and made history last season as the very first lead female Sky Sports analyst for a Premier League match. Meulensteen has actually likewise commentated on World Cup video games and has a sought after Sports Journalism Association award for her work. She will bring WSL audiences included insight through her extensive understanding of the video game along with a strong on-air existence.

Both Christiansen and Meulensteen match the existing on-screen Sky Sports WSL group consisting of previous England legend Karen Carney and speaker Caroline Barker. The set will likewise play a broader function throughout Sky Sports’ football portfolio, consisting of Premier League and EFL.

Meulensteen stated: “I’m fortunate and fired up to continue dealing with the extraordinary group of broadcasters at Sky Sports and to bring the very best protection for an interesting season ahead, in both the males’s and ladies’s video game.”

Sky Sports’ Director of Football, Gary Hughes, included: “We are extremely lucky to be able to include 2 incredibly skilled names to our currently outstanding WSL cast. Izzy’s current experience of playing in the WSL will bring excellent importance and insight to our protection, while Pien has actually shown capability of commentating on the males’s and ladies’s video game.”

Helped by a title race that decreased to the wire, last season’s typical viewership of the Women’s Super League was up by 53 percent, highlighting the ever-increasing appeal of the ladies’s video game. WSL fans can anticipate another season of nail-biting action, with 35 video games solely survive on Sky Sports for the 2023/24 season.

All video games will continue to be revealed on Sky Display, readily available in all Sky houses, even without a Sky Sports bundle, offering the competitors higher presence.

Sky Sports News, digital and social networks channels will continue to shine a light on all the news and ratings from throughout the department, while fans can maintain to date with whatever on and off the pitch with the return of 3 Gamers and a Podcast, hosted by Caroline Barker.

For those not able to wait till the brand-new season for their fill of high-level ladies’s football, it was just recently revealed that the acclaimed football podcast The Offside Guideline will sign up with forces with Sky Sports for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & & New Zealand 2023.