Australia girls’s assistant coach Melissa Andreatta has been appointed Scotland head coach on a four-year deal.
The 46-year-old is the everlasting successor to Pedro Martinez Losa – who left his position in December after failing to achieve Euro 2025 – topic to the completion of visa preparations.
Michael McArdle oversaw the primary 4 video games of Scotland’s Nations League Group A1 marketing campaign this 12 months, ending off with Tuesday night time’s 6-1 thrashing in Germany.
Andreatta has been assistant coach of the Matildas since 2019 and has additionally led the Beneath-23s since their inception in 2022.
Earlier than becoming a member of the nationwide crew set-up she guided residence membership Brisbane Roar to the W-League Premiership title – which is now referred to as the A-League – in 2018 and was voted coach of the 12 months within the nation’s high division.
“I am completely delighted to be main Scotland Girls’s nationwide crew into a brand new, thrilling period,” she mentioned.
“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 start out constructing in the direction of that future.
“It is an actual honour to affix such a powerful programme, which you’ll be able to see from the expertise within the senior squad, which runs via all the age teams.
“That is testomony to the work that is been carried out already by Michael McArdle and the crew.”
Andreatta is ready to take cost of Scotland for the primary time on 30 Might after they host Austria of their penultimate sport in Group A1.
Scotland, who’re but to select up some extent within the group, end their marketing campaign by travelling to the Netherlands 4 days later.
McArdle will return his full consideration to his position because the Scottish FA’s head of girls’s elite soccer.
