Lengthy-time Matildas assistant coach Melissa Andreatta has been appointed head coach of the Scotland girls’s nationwide group.

Andreatta has been assistant coach since 2019, and was appointed lead assistant below Tony Gustavsson in 2021.

Andreatta performed an important position in Australia’s run to the semifinals of each the Tokyo Olympics and the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup, and was additionally head coach of Australia’s first under-23 group.

The Queenslander was Brisbane Roar’s A-League Ladies coach from 2016 to 2018, main the membership to the 2018 premiership, whereas additionally working because the Matildas’ assistant analyst.

Andreatta’s departure provides to an enormous overhaul of the Matildas’ teaching workers after Younger Matildas coach Leah Blayney took up an assistant coach position with Japan earlier this 12 months.

It opens the door for the incoming coach, extensively anticipated to be Lyon boss Joe Montemurro, to herald their very own workers.

“Mel’s affect on girls’s soccer in Australia at each a home and worldwide stage has been vital, the place she has been instrumental in not solely the event of present Matildas however the success of the group over latest years,” Soccer Australia head of nationwide groups Gary Moretti stated.

“Mel’s appointment as head coach of the Scotland girls’s nationwide group isn’t solely deserved recognition for her achievements so far however additional acknowledgement of the excessive regard for Australian coaches internationally.

“We wish to thank Mel for her contribution to our girls’s nationwide groups for greater than a decade and want her all the perfect with this new and thrilling chapter.”

Andreatta joins Tanya Oxtoby (Northern Eire) amongst prime feminine Australian coaches heading up different nationwide groups.

Scotland didn’t qualify for the Ladies’s Euros however can have their eye on reaching the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup.

“I am completely delighted to be main Scotland girls’s nationwide group into a brand new, thrilling period,” Andreatta stated.

“The longer term is unquestionably brilliant and with my in depth teaching, expertise growth and main event expertise, my goal is to help the gamers and workers to achieve their fullest potential.

“The ambition is to get Scotland again to constant qualification and with the squad in a interval of transition, that is the right alternative to begin constructing in the direction of that future.”

Andreatta is anticipated to be in place, pending her visa, for Scotland’s Nations League match in opposition to Austria on Might 30.

On the identical day, the Matildas play the primary of two friendlies in opposition to Argentina at Docklands Stadium.

AAP