Liverpool Football Club is deeply shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of former LFC Women manager Matt Beard.

This is devastating news.

He was such a key figure in the women's team, having managed the team through our most successful title-winning years, and later on, in his second stint at the club, leading us through our promotion to the WSL after we got relegated.

Beyond that, everything I've seen and heard about him is what a great guy he was. During these times when male coaches are finally being exposed for their abuse of power--either by dating their own players or committing mental and emotional abuse--Matt Beard was a man whom I feel I could relax about, someone I could trust with my beloved Liverpool Women's Team. Because of how he talked constantly about his family on his socials, and because of how the players and match-going fans talked about him.

The game lost one of the good ones, and the players lost a good coach and mentor. More importantly, his loved ones lost a brother, son, friend, husband, and father.

Racheal Kundananji's goal off of a well-slotted pass from Barbra Banda.

Ghizlane Chebbak's 87th minute goal to equalise for Morocco in their opening day match against Zambia in the 2025 Women's AFCON.