Reading Women ask to leave Championship and aim to play in fifth tier
- Late takeover bid for womenβs team falls through
- Fifth tier is best case but whole set-up could be closed
Reading have requested to withdraw from the Womenβs Championship, after an 11th-hour bid to take over the womenβs arm of the club fell through, and the entire womenβs and girlsβ programme could soon be closed down.
Multiple age-group teams were told on Friday they would not be continuing and staff are understood to have been informed in a series of meetings that there were no guarantees of funding for any womenβs and girlsβ teams for next season.
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