Nicola Jane Williams (born 4 June 1982) is an Australian association football (soccer) coach and former player.

Nicola Williams

Personal information
Full name	Nicola Jane Williams
Date of birth	(1982-06-04) 4 June 1982 (age 40)
Place of birth	Lancaster, England
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1994–1996	Sorrento Women's Soccer Club	44	(4)
1997–2016	Northern Redbacks (Stirling Reds)	354	(132)
2000–2010	Western Australia State Womens Team	114	(24)
Teams managed
2003–2017	Lynwood Senior High
2007–2008,2010	WA U17 Girls State Team, Coffs Harbour
2010–2012	WA U19 State School Girls Soccer
2007–2009	Football West National Training Centre U19
2008–2009	Perth Glory Women
2010	Australian Girls U14 (Assistant) & Australian Girls U13 Head Coach
2011–2012	Australian Women's National U17 (Assistant)
2010–2014	Australia Women's National Young Matildas U20 Football Team (Assistant)
2013	Juventus Academy Roma
2014	Female Football Academy
2017	Trinidad & Tobago U-20 Women's Team Coach & T&T Senior Women's Team (Assistant)
2018-19	AC Milan Women's Team (Assistant)
2020-21	SS Lazio Women's Team (Assistant)
2022	Leicester City Women's Football Club (Assistant Manager)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Coaching career

Nicola Williams holds an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and Football Australia "PRO" Coaching Licence accreditation and UEFA A Licence from Coverciano in Italy. Williams began her coaching career as the Head Coach of Australian W-League team Perth Glory in their 2008–2009 inaugural season,[1] who improved to be a top 4 performing side in the second half of the season.[2] Following this tenure, Williams spent more than 6 years with the Australia Women's National Football Team; Assistant coach of the National Young Matildas U20 team[3] for 4 years following her roles as the head coach of the Australian Girls U13 team in 2010 and Assistant U17 Women's National Team coach in 2012.[4][5] Nicola Williams received an inaugural Elite Coaching Scholarship from FFA (now Football Australia and presented her report at the 2010 FFA National Coaching Conference. She spent time studying training and coaching sessions by Pia Sundhage, at the United States women's national soccer team Camp and Emma Hayes, former coach of the Chicago Red Stars and currently with Chelsea F.C. Women. At the 2012 Women's U20 World Cup in Japan, Williams was invited to an Elite Coaches Workshop and met Carolina Morace, FIFA Instructor and Ambassador and former coach of the Canadian and Italian Women's National Teams. The pair began working together at Juventus Academy Roma, Female Football Academy and Pro Soccer Coaching[6] before coaching Trinidad and Tobago Women's National Team in 2017[7] and AC Milan Women's Serie A Team in Italy 2018.[8] In February 2021 Morace & Williams signed with S.S Lazio, winning the league and gaining promotion for the women's team from Serie B to Serie A in 2022 for the first time in their history.[9] In August 2022 Williams was appointed Assistant Manager at Leicester City Women who participate in the English Women's Super League.

Personal life

On 11 October 2020, it was revealed Williams married Italian footballer Carolina Morace, with whom she celebrated the wedding twice—first in Bristol, on the SS Great Britain in July 2014, and the second in Australia in May 2019.[10]

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