{"id":865,"date":"2026-06-01T17:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=865"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:14:11","slug":"swpl-winners-hearts-appoint-andy-thomson-as-new-head-coach-replacing-eva-olid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"SWPL winners Hearts appoint Andy Thomson as new head coach, replacing Eva Olid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Andy Thomson has been appointed head coach of Scottish Women Premier League champions Hearts, replacing Eva Olid.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomson, 55, leaves Rangers, where he had been assistant coach of the women&#8217;s side since early 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Scotland women&#8217;s assistant coach fills the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/cj4pgjr10zyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">vacancy left by Spanard Olid,<\/a> who led Hearts to their first women&#8217;s top-flight title success in her final match in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As a player, Thomson played as a forward for Queen of the South, Partick Thistle, Falkirk, Stenhousemuir and four English clubs, including Queens Park Rangers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved into coaching with the University of Strathclyde men&#8217;s team and has worked with Caledonian Braves and University of Stirling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He assisted Shelley Kerr during the latter&#8217;s spell in charge of Scotland women and later worked as football development manager at Motherwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts begin the defence of their SWPL title in mid-August.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Thomson has been appointed head coach of Scottish Women Premier League champions Hearts, replacing Eva Olid. Thomson, 55, leaves&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}