Manchester United to launch women’s team at last and apply to join WSL

• Ed Woodward announces application to join second tier of WSL
• ‘Women’s team must be built with the same principles as the men’s’

Manchester United are finally to have a women’s football team after the club applied to the Football Association to join the Women’s Super League.

United are rare among the established forces of the domestic men’s game in not having a women’s side. Chelsea, Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool all have teams with United until now resisting calls for it to join them. In January Phil Neville, the England women national team coach and former United defender, stated he would be “urging them” to do so.

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