{"id":16539,"date":"2026-01-28T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=16539"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:08:51","slug":"northern-ireland-women-former-dungannan-boss-kris-lindsay-to-take-interim-charge-of-switzerland-and-turkey-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=16539","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland women: Former Dungannan boss Kris Lindsay to take interim charge of Switzerland and Turkey qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Northern Ireland have appointed Kris Lindsay as interim manager for their first pair of 2027 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifiers in March.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tanya Oxtoby left the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c89198ng4qeo\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">post to manage Newcastle United in November<\/a> after two years in charge and, with no permanent replacement appointed, Lindsay will take charge of games away to Switzerland on 3 March and home to Turkey four days later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lindsay, who is currently manager of the Northern Ireland men&#8217;s under-16 team, was previously at the helm of Irish Premiership side Dungannon Swifts, and served as first-team coach for Cliftonville and Glenavon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lindsay was also first-team coach for the Northern Ireland women&#8217;s team when Gail Redmond was interim manager between the reigns of Oxtoby and previous manager Kenny Shiels in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Managing your country at any level is a privilege and I&#8217;m delighted to be given this chance,&#8221; said Lindsay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have followed the senior women&#8217;s team for some time. They have a fantastic leadership group and my role will simply be to add where I can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These are two tough games to kick off our World Cup campaign and I&#8217;m looking forward to getting started.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/czjg2xd3y8ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Ireland have appointe&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}