Becki Tweed

Becki Tweed
Tweed with Angel City in 2024
Personal information
Full name Rebecca Susan Tweed[1]
Place of birth Bristol, England[2]
Team information
Current team
 Angel City FC (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 Bristol City
2008–2009 Millwall
2009–2010 Bristol Academy
Jersey Blues (WPSL)
2011–2015 Millburn Magic
2020 Sky Blue FC 0 (0)
Managerial career
2017–2020 Monmouth Hawks (assistant)
2020–2023 NJ/NY Gotham FC (assistant)
2021 Gotham Reserves
2022–2023 United States U20
2023 Angel City FC (assistant)
2023 Angel City FC (interim)
2024 Angel City FC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rebecca Susan Tweed is an English women's football manager and former player who was previously the head coach of Angel City FC in the American National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and an assistant coach for the United States women's national under-20 soccer team. She also served as an assistant coach and interim head coach of NJ/NY Gotham FC from 2020-2023.[3]

Playing career

Tweed played professionally for six years in the FA Women's Premier League for Bristol City and Millwall. She then moved to the United States and played for Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) teams Jersey Blues FC and Millburn Magic.[2][4]

Sky Blue FC, 2020

On 10 October 2020, Tweed — serving as assistant coach for Sky Blue FC — also dressed as a bench player for a match against Chicago Red Stars in the 2020 NWSL Fall Series, wearing squad number 29 and rostered as a midfielder. She did not appear in the match.[5][6] As a result, her playing rights in the NWSL were made available in the 2020 NWSL Expansion Draft.[7]

International

Tweed played for England's national teams at the youth level.[2]

Managerial career

Monmouth University

Tweed joined Monmouth University as an assistant coach in 2017.[4][8][9]

Sky Blue FC (NJ/NY Gotham FC), 2020–2023

Tweed joined Sky Blue FC in March 2020 as an assistant coach to head coach Freya Coombe after sending her resume to the club. After Coombe left to manage Angel City FC mid-season in 2021, Coombe's replacement Scott Parkinson retained Tweed as an assistant. On 4 September 2021, newly appointed Parkinson was unavailable to coach a match against Chicago Red Stars due to a personal matter, and the club — now named NJ/NY Gotham FC — named Tweed as interim head coach.[10] Gotham drew the match against Chicago 0–0.[4] Following Parkinson's firing during the 2022 season, Tweed and fellow assistant coach Bev Yanez led training[11] until the appointment of interim head coach Hue Menzies, who retained Tweed as an assistant.[12]

Tweed was also co-head coach of the Gotham Reserves WPSL team created in 2021, partnering with Eleri Earnshaw.[13] The team won the 2021 WPSL Metropolitan South conference championship in a perfect season, and the WPSL named Tweed and Earnshaw conference Coaches of the Year for that season.[14][15]

Angel City FC, 2023–2024

On 11 January 2023, Angel City FC hired Tweed as an assistant coach, reuniting Tweed with former Sky Blue FC head coach Freya Coombe and Gotham Reserves co-head coach Eleri Earnshaw.[16] On June 14, Angel City fired Coombe at the halfway point of the 2023 season and named Tweed the club's interim head coach.[3]

Under Tweed's management, Angel City made the NWSL Playoffs and only dropped one game as a loss.[17] On November 2, 2023, Angel City announced that it had removed the interim tag from Tweed and named her the club's permanent head coach after leading the team to an 8-2-5 mark across all competitions.[18] Tweed was nominated for NWSL Coach of the Year—the first time an interim coach has made the shortlist.[17]

On December 9, 2024 Angel City announced they had fired Tweed and Eleri Earnshaw would be named interim coach[19]

International

Tweed serves as assistant coach for the United States women's national under-20 soccer team.[3] She was part of the coaching staff for the team at the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, Sud Ladies Cup,[2] and 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[20]

References

  1. ^ "Squad List, FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Costa Rica 2022: USA" (PDF). FIFA. 3 August 2022. p. 16. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Becki Tweed". Angel City FC. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b c "NWSL's Angel City fires coach after 6-game winless streak". ESPN. Associated Press. 15 June 2023. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Tonelli, Jenna (10 November 2021). "From England to New Jersey, Becki Tweed is making her mark". Jersey Sporting News. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021.
  5. ^ Kriger, Rachael (10 October 2020). "Sky Blue FC dominates in 3-1 Fall Series finale against Chicago". The Equalizer. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Gotham FC vs. Chicago Red Stars". Soccerway. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  7. ^ Herrera, Sandra (5 November 2020). "NWSL expansion draft protected list tracker: Here's a look at the available players for Racing Louisville". CBS Sports. Retrieved 15 June 2023. Sky Blue FC ... Unprotected Players ... Rebecca Tweed (Playing Rights)
  8. ^ "Becki Tweed joins women's soccer staff". Monmouth Hawks. 10 August 2017.[dead link‍]
  9. ^ Monmouth Women's Soccer [@MonmouthWSOC] (10 August 2017). "Welcome Assistant Coach Becki Tweed to our program! #FlyHawks" (Tweet). Retrieved 15 June 2023 – via Twitter.
  10. ^ Tannenwald, Jonathan (31 August 2021). "Gotham FC hires Scott Parkinson as new manager, Bev Goebel Yanez as assistant". Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  11. ^ Tonelli, Jenna (11 August 2022). "Scott Parkinson out as Gotham FC head coach". All For XI. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  12. ^ "In Dramatic Comeback, Gotham FC Ends Season with Thrilling Draw with Portland Thorns FC" (Press release). NJ/NY Gotham FC. 1 October 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  13. ^ Singleton, Nichole (12 April 2021). "NJ/NY Gotham FC Collaborates with Downtown United Soccer Club to Create NWSL Reserve Team Which Will Compete in 2021 WPSL Season". SoccerToday. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  14. ^ "Best of the WPSL awards - East Region" (Press release). Women's Premier Soccer League. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  15. ^ Lindsay, Ryan (22 July 2021). "NJ/NY Gotham Reserves claim Metropolitan South Division title in inaugural WPSL season" (Press release). Women's Premier Soccer League. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  16. ^ Munson, Bella (11 January 2023). "Angel City hire Becki Tweed as assistant coach". The Equalizer. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  17. ^ a b Linehan, Meg. "Angel City hires Becki Tweed as permanent coach". The Athletic. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
  18. ^ "ACFC".
  19. ^ https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/angel-city-fires-coach-becki-tweed-where-does-franchise-go-here/3fb7a527e085eb7de1398207
  20. ^ Angel City FC [@weareangelcity] (17 May 2023). "Our very own @BeckiTweed is proudly serving as an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 2023 CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Championships in the Dominican Republic!" (Tweet). Retrieved 15 June 2023 – via Twitter.