Cork sides ‘must target’ Europe

Fran Gavin, the director of the SSE Airtricity League, has challenged the new female soccer entity in Cork — and their male counterparts — to reach the Champions League in the coming years.

Gavin was speaking last night at the announcement that Cork Women’s FC will become part of Foras, which already runs Cork City, and be known as Cork City Women’s FC, and told them to aim high.

“The beauty about this was that we didn’t have to bring people together,” he said, “you already saw that there was a requirement here to bring expertise on both sides together. We’d expect teams from Cork to always be at the top, no matter what sport it is. Within three or four years, we’d expect to see both the men and the women here going for the Champions League.