Liverpool have unveiled everlasting memorials outdoors Anfield and at their coaching floor in tribute to former ladies’s group supervisor Matt Beard.
He died on 20 September, 2025, aged 47, and having been in cost from 2012 to 2015 and once more from 2021 to 2025.
Below his administration Liverpool received back-to-back Girls’s Tremendous League titles in 2013 and 2014, earlier than securing promotion again to the WSL in 2022 by profitable the FA Girls’s Championship title.
Beard was twice named WSL supervisor of the season, and inducted into the WSL Corridor of Fame earlier this 12 months.
Gamers, workers and Beard’s household attended a personal ceremony on the membership’s Melwood coaching floor on Friday the place a memorial backyard in his title was unveiled.
A commemorative tree was additionally planted in his honour on 97 Avenue outdoors Anfield Stadium.
Liverpool’s residence Premier League match in opposition to Fulham on Saturday might be devoted to the league’s Collectively Towards Suicide initiative, which raises consciousness of suicide prevention and the help accessible.
The marketing campaign runs between 4 and 14 September to encourage conversations round suicide prevention and assist cut back the stigma about folks looking for help.
A bunch of Reds supporters may also increase cash for males’s suicide prevention charity Andy’s Man Membership by strolling from Melwood to the Brewdog Stadium in St Helens – Liverpool Girls’s residence floor – earlier than Sunday’s WSL match in opposition to Tottenham.
Final September the Liverpool FC Basis launched its Kicking Off Conversations Hub to supply specialist help to followers.