Rebecca Welch throughout Premier League match between Fulham and Burnley on December 23, 2023.© AFP
Rebecca Welch turned the primary lady to referee an English Premier League soccer match when she blew the whistle on Fulham’s sport towards Burnley at Craven Cottage on Saturday. Welch, a 40-year-old from Washington in northeast England, was working for the Nationwide Well being Service when she started her refereeing profession in 2010. She rose via the officiating ranks and, in 2021, turned the primary lady appointed to referee a match within the English Soccer League when she took cost of the fourth-tier fixture between Harrogate and Port Vale.
Welch was additionally the primary feminine official to referee matches within the Championship and third spherical of the FA Cup.
Final month she turned the primary lady to behave as fourth official in a Premier League sport as a part of the officiating crew for Fulham’s match towards Manchester United.
Welch has additionally taken cost of a number of high-profile girls’s fixtures, together with video games on the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup.
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