MANISHA TAILOR
Manisha Tailor, MBE, is the Assistant Head of Coaching (U9-U16) QPR Football Club, and the only person of South Asian heritage to hold such a position in the English professional game. Manisha has a background in primary education and trained as a headteacher before embarking on a career in football. She is the founder of Swaggarlicious, an organisation that uses football and education to engage with Black, Asian, Minority groups and women, works with Show Racism the Red Card delivering anti-racism workshops, and holds an advisory role as vice-chair (coaching) on the British Asians in Sport and Physical Activity board. In 2017 she received an MBE for services to football and diversity in sport.
Manisha is one of thirty trailblazing sportswomen named on the BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Power List 2023: Women in Sport. See the list here and listen to the Woman's Hour episode here.
