Chelsea Women have offered a contract to Lyon head coach Sonia Bompastor to replace USWNT-bound Emma Hayes at the end of the season.
Bompastor — who has won the Champions League as a player and manager — is the chosen candidate and Chelsea are negotiating a deal to appoint her.
Nothing has been signed and the process remains ongoing.
The 43-year-old was promoted from her role within the Lyon academy to the women’s head coach after the sacking of Jean-Luc Vasseur in April 2021.
She has a contract with the French club until 2025.
In her first full season in charge, Bompastor led Lyon to a double as they won the Division 1 Feminine and the Women’s Champions League.
Both triumphs were equally comfortable — Lyon won the league with 21 victories and one draw in 22 games and then beat Barcelona 3-1 in the final of the Champions League, scoring all of their goals inside 33 minutes.
Lyon retained their league title the following campaign with 20 wins in 22 matches but fell at the quarter-final stage of the Champions League, losing a penalty shootout to Chelsea after a 2-2 aggregate tie over two legs.
Bompastor guided Lyon to Champions League glory in 2022 (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
The French club have again reached the quarter-finals of this season’s competition, in…
