Scottish teams Rangers and Celtic have held preliminary talks with the WPLL (Women’s Professional Leagues Limited) about joining the Women’s Super League (WSL).
The discussions, originally reported by The Times and corroborated by The Athletic, have been a continuation of those previously held with the Football Association (FA) when it was still operating the WSL. The WPLL took over from English football’s governing body in running the top two divisions of the women’s game at the start of this season back in the summer.
Any final decision remains a long way off, with the Scottish league requiring at least a two-year notice period for teams who want to leave, and Scotland’s FA also likely to have to approve their exits.
Followers of men’s football may be experiencing a strange sensation of deja vu at this point.
The idea that Rangers and Celtic, both based in Glasgow, should become part of the Premier League has regularly been mooted down the years without ever seriously getting off the ground. However, the context of those two clubs within the women’s game is significantly different.
Celtic Rangers have made a lot of investment in their women’s teams over the past couple of years and have been rewarded for it. Both have won the Scottish title for the first time…
