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.

Northern Ireland travelled to Dublin to play the Republic of Ireland in September with a record crowd of over 36,000 fans in attendance.

The return fixture will be played at the National Football Stadium at windsor park in Belfast on Tuesday December 5th, the second time the team have played at the home of Northern Ireland football.

Earlier this year she oversaw the equality breakthrough of the Northern ireland Women’s and Men’s teams being paid an equal amount for representing their country.

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.

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See who else has been included so far on the list for 2023

This is the 11th 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 2023.

We are proud to publish the list in partnership 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 step up again, raising the number of new entrants to at least 40 percent of fresh names from last year.

It 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.