Mercury 13 Plans to Win Deal for English Women’s Football Team

Mercury 13, an investment group targeting women’s football clubs, said it hopes to buy a team in England, having previously tried and failed to purchase the women’s team of Lewes FC.

Mercury 13 already owns a controlling stake in FC Como women in northern Italy, and is planning to build a stable of clubs in a bid to capitalize on the growing interest in the sport, its founder Victoire Cogevina Reynal told a panel at Bloomberg’s Women, Money & Power conference in London on Tuesday. “England is the leading league and we want to have a presence here,” she said.