凱爾特人隊和流浪者隊就加入英格蘭女子超級聯賽進行初步談判

手指已經與女子超級聯賽進行了初步談判，探討轉會參加英格蘭頂級聯賽的事宜。

Celtic and Rangers have reportedly held initial talks with the Women's Super League over a potential move to play in the English top flight.

據報道，凱爾特人隊和流浪者隊已經與女子超級聯賽就進入英格蘭頂級聯賽的可能性進行了初步談判。

Nikki Doucet, the chief executive officer of the company that has taken over the running of the WSL, is exploring ways to expand the women's game, including learning from the rich history of men's football, with the added benefit of hindsight.

接管 WSL 營運的公司執行長 Nikki Doucet 正在探索擴大女子足球比賽的方法，包括學習男子足球的豐富歷史，並增加事後諸葛亮的好處。

This does not necessarily mean mirroring what has happened in the men's game, and possibilities such as the involvement of Celtic and Rangers and a closed league (like the NWSL in America) are being explored.

這並不一定意味著要複製男子比賽中發生的情況，凱爾特人隊和流浪者隊的參與以及封閉聯盟（如美國的 NWSL）等可能性正在探索中。

Four Women's Championship teams — Bristol City, Southampton, Birmingham City and Newcastle United — are trialling a new pilot to allow fans to drink alcohol in the stands, a scheme partly given the green light because of the different demographic of fans in the women's game.

四支女子冠軍球隊——布里斯托爾城、南安普敦、伯明翰城和紐卡斯爾聯——正在試驗一項新的試點，允許球迷在看台上喝酒，這一計劃部分獲得批准，因為女子比賽中球迷的人口結構不同。

Scottish women's football is some way behind the English game — the Scottish Women's Premier League was only formed in 2022 when the clubs playing in the existing top two leagues decided to move the ownership and operations of the elite competitions into a new structure.

蘇格蘭女足在某種程度上落後於英格蘭足球——蘇格蘭女足超級聯賽於 2022 年才成立，當時參加現有兩大聯賽的俱樂部決定將精英賽事的所有權和運營轉移到新的結構中。

As a result of Scotland's qualification for the 2019 Women's World Cup there was a significant increase in support and funding for Rangers and Celtic — previously Glasgow City had been the dominant club.

由於蘇格蘭獲得了 2019 年女足世界盃的參賽資格，流浪者隊和凱爾特人隊的支持和資金顯著增加——此前格拉斯哥城隊一直是主要俱樂部。

Since then, however, they have not enjoyed the same level of growth in attendances and commercial success as teams in England.

然而，從那時起，他們在上座率和商業成功方面就沒有享受到與英格蘭球隊相同的成長水平。

Celtic won the league last season — on a tense final day when Rangers could also have lifted the title had results gone their way — but are bottom of their Champions League group in the first year they have qualified for the competition.

凱爾特人隊上賽季贏得了聯賽冠軍——在緊張的最後一天，如果結果如願，流浪者隊也可以贏得冠軍——但在他們獲得歐冠資格的第一年，他們在歐冠小組中墊底。

They narrowly lost 2-1 to Chelsea at Celtic Park, but there is a feeling that further investment is required in Scottish football to help those leading teams compete in Europe.

他們在凱爾特人公園以 2-1 險勝切爾西，但人們感覺蘇格蘭足球需要進一步投資，以幫助那些領先的球隊在歐洲競爭。

It was reported last year that Rangers had held informal discussions with the FA over whether it could be feasible to join, and those exploratory conversations have continued with Women's Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL), the company that took ownership of the WSL and Women's Championship in August.

去年有報導稱，流浪者隊與英足總就加入是否可行進行了非正式討論，這些探索性對話仍在與女子職業聯盟有限公司（WPLL）進行，該公司在2017 年擁有WSL 和女子錦標賽的所有權。

The WPLL, the Scottish Women's Premier League, Rangers and Celtic declined to comment.

WPLL、蘇格蘭女子超級聯賽、流浪者隊和凱爾特人隊都拒絕置評。

It is understood that talks are at such an early stage that there has been no official approach to the SWPL or the Scottish FA, the latter of which would have to agree on any future proposal, which seems unlikely.

據了解，談判還處於早期階段，尚未與蘇格蘭職業聯賽或蘇格蘭足球協會達成正式接觸，後者必須就任何未來的提議達成一致，而這似乎不太可能。

The notice period for leaving the Scottish league is two clear seasons, which puts any possible inclusion of Celtic and Rangers far into the future, given official conversations have not yet begun.

離開蘇格蘭聯賽的通知期是兩個明確的賽季，考慮到官方對話尚未開始，凱爾特人隊和流浪者隊加入蘇格蘭聯賽的可能性還很遙遠。

In 2022 Michael Nicholson signed Celtic up to the Sydney Super Cup, following sustained protests from Ibrox fans their club pulled out with Everton stepping in to take up the fixtures in November 2022 ahead of the World Cup Finals.

2022 年，在伊布羅克斯球迷的持續抗議下，凱爾特人隊退出，埃弗頓介入，在世界盃決賽前接手了2022 年11 月的比賽，邁克爾·尼科爾森(Michael Nicholson)與凱爾特人隊簽約參加雪梨超級盃。

It seems that no-one from either club is prepared to comment on the story from a reputable source, it could well be a case of testing the water to see what reaction there is to the proposal before deciding on further negotiations.

似乎兩傢俱樂部都沒有人準備對可信來源的報導發表評論，這很可能是一次試水，看看人們對該提議有何反應，然後再決定進一步談判。