As part of the club’s ongoing commitment to women’s football, the Western Sydney Wanderers W-League Mentoring Program is designed to help players plan for success, build on their personal brand whilst also aiming to support both their mental health and physical well-being.

Supported by Western Sydney University, the program is focused on developing bright futures for the Wanderers' elite female players, ensuring that they get the support and confidence to manage their home, work and football life balance as well as introducing them to the right networks that will help broaden their career opportunities.

The first session of the program was hosted by Nikki Heald from Corptraining and was designed to help the W-League team build their personal brand and work on their networking skills.

The second session saw the players meet their Mentors for the very first time with 30 of Western Sydney’s most accomplished leaders in business, charities, sport, the arts and media industries coming together to celebrate a greater professional pathway for Wanderers W-League players.

Western Sydney Wanderers CEO John Tsatsimas said he was extremely proud of the program and the commitment that has gone into bringing it to life.

“This year we enter our sixth Westfield W-League season and during our time we have had the pleasure of seeing a great number of highly impressive young women play for our team,” said Tsatsimas.

“We introduced this program to help our elite female players develop not only on the field but off it also.

“Our goal was to create a program that has tangible benefits for our W-League players and I believe the response we have had so far and the incredible list of both male and female ambassadors coming on board is an outstanding achievement.”

There are three W-League Mentoring Events we’re hosting in conjunction with the program:

• Westfield W-League Round 3 home match against Brisbane Roar 10 November 2017 – Hosted in the Elettra Room at Club Marconi followed by private suite seating in Marconi Stadium
• Sydney Derby Double Header 9 December 2017 – Hosted in the Legends Room at ANZ Stadium
• Player/Mentor function – TBC 2018