Riteesh Mishra

Riteesh Mishra came through the ranks as a young professional footballer at Nottingham Forest until a bad injury effectively ended his time as a player. He developed his coaching career working with Nottingham Forest, Falkirk and the Scottish Football Association as an academy coach of boys in the U9-U14 age groups. He also became involved with Inspire Sport, a company that managed tours for school football teams and academy sides. That job took him to clubs like Valencia, Porto, Ajax, Feyenoord and Villarreal, where he soaked up all the coaching knowledge he could and learnt how coaches in other countries worked. In 2014, he started working as an academy coach at Charlton Athletic, where he was eventually promoted to head coach of the women’s reserve team. Appointed interim manager of the women’s first team in January 2016, he took on the role on a permanent basis in June 2016. Under his leadership, Charlton Athletic Women won the Premier League Southern Division title in 2018 and successfully achieved promotion to the FA Women’s Championship (the second tier of women’s football in England) after victory in the Premier League play-offs.