HOPE POWELL

Position

 Midfielder

Clubs

 Millwall, F.o.Fulham, Croydon

D.O.B

 08.12.66

P.O.B

 London

Caps

 66

Goals

 35

Debut

Full Debut

First Goal
Hope Powell was appointed as the first ever full-time National Coach of the women’s team in June 1998.

An experienced international with 66 caps for England and 35 goals she is the youngest ever England coach and the first female. 

Hope first played football with Millwall Lionesses at the age of 11 and has won The FA Women's Cup three times, including the league and Cup double as captain of Croydon in 1996.

Hope is a fully qualified ‘A’ License coach and in 2003 became the first woman to achieve the UEFA Pro License - the highest coaching award available.

Her achievements to date include taking the Under-19s to the semi-finals of the 2002 and 2003 UEFA Women’s Championship and to the quarter-finals of the inaugural FIFA U19 World Championship in 2002.

She also coached the senior team to qualification for the 2001 UEFA European Championship Finals in her first major championship as manager and in June 2005, narrowly failed to take the Three Lions into the semi finals of the European Championship on home soil. 

In 2002, Hope was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list and became the first woman to achieve the UEFA Pro-Licence coaching award in 2003.

Hope works to promote the women’s game and is patron of the Kick It Out campaign and the Women’s Sports Foundation and as well as managing the England Senior team, she oversees the whole set-up from Under-15s to the Under-21s, a coach mentoring scheme and The FA’s National Player Development Centre at Loughborough University.

In 2006 Hope lead England to qualification for the Women's World Cup, with the Three Lions topping their group and finishing the campaign unbeaten. England's place in China was secured in the last match of the campaign, with a heart-stopping 1-1 draw with France in Rennes.

After coming out of a group with Japan, Argentina and Germany - and being the only team to hold the eventual winners Germany to a draw - England reached the quarter-finals where they lost out to USA.

England are currently on track to qualify for Euro 2009, with five wins out of six so far in Group One.