Girls’s Tremendous League 2 aspect Southampton have had their funds reduce considerably after a “difficult” summer season, in accordance with head coach Simon Parker.
As a part of the modifications, the ladies’s staff will now play nearly all of their matches at Eastleigh FC’s Silverlake Stadium, as an alternative of at St Mary’s Stadium the place they’d spent the earlier 4 seasons.
With the brand new marketing campaign beginning every week on Sunday, Parker informed BBC Radio Solent they’re now working with the smallest funds within the WSL 2, and this has had a major influence on their technique for 2026-27.
“The summer season has been a bit difficult with a couple of of the issues which have occurred,” Parker mentioned.
Sources at Southampton deny that these funds cuts are associated to the spygate scandal.
Saints’ males have been faraway from the Championship play-offs final season after the membership admitted to spying on rival groups and began this season on minus 4 factors.
In 2025-26, Southampton’s girls have been within the combine for promotion to the WSL, finally ending fifth, their highest place within the soccer pyramid since re-forming as a membership 9 years in the past.
“It was a robust first 12 months final season the place the intention was at all times to try to end within the prime half and ending fifth in a promotion push for a big a part of the season was actually promising,” Parker added.
“Off the again of final season, the plan was to re-engage with plenty of our key gamers however we needed to pivot and go into a distinct course.”
Earlier this summer season, it was additionally revealed director of soccer Marieanne Spacey-Cale would step down, having been instrumental within the rise of the ladies’s staff at Southampton.