ANGELA PLATT

 

Angela Platt is the Irish FA’s first-ever Director of Women’s Football. She was appointed to the role in 2021 and oversaw the Northern Ireland team taking part in the UEFA Women’s Euro’s in England.

As important as that achievement was it was in the extension and expansion of the sport for women and young girls that it drove that will perhaps leave the longest legacy.

Platt was formerly head of the Northern Cricket Union and Executive Manager of the Ulster Hockey Union, as well as Chair of the Northern Ireland Sports Forum.

A graduate of Ulster University she began her career in sport working with Carrickfergus Borough Council as a Sports Development Officer.

She is the fifth new entry on this year’s list.

See who else has been named on the list alongside Angela Platt by clicking on the image below.

 

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This is the tenth edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

Read more about the list and nominate who you think should be a part of it in 2022.

We are proud to do so again this year with AIG, an organisation that has pledged its commitment to equality in its partnerships with Gaelic Games, Tennis, Golf and more, for whom “Effort is Equal” and with whom we have ambitious plans to extend the reach of this annual celebration of the Women who are making a difference.

This year’s list will be drawn as before from the worlds of leadership, partnership, storytelling, and performance.

We began this journey in 2013 when challenged that we would never be able to produce a list of twenty Influential Women in Irish Sport. The 20 stretched to 30, then 40 and 50 and it still does not do justice to the talent that is out there.

This year once more, to keep things fresh we will introduce at least 30 percent of fresh names from last year. That will be the hardest part to have some names replaced but if it was too easy it would be of less value.

The list we will build over the coming weeks is a snapshot of those women who are making a mark on how sport is played, consumed, grown and delivered.

They are part of making the role of women in sport unexceptional by being exceptional in what they do.