Waterford FC is delighted to announce Gary Hunt as our Waterford Women’s FC Head Coach for the 2025 League of Ireland season.

Hunt makes the return to the Blues for 2025, as he becomes the first-ever Head Coach of Waterford Women’s FC.
Gary is no stranger to Waterford FC, having first joined the coaching set-up in 2019 as our Head of Youth Development, where he oversaw our U13, U15,U17 & U19 men’s sides. Gary managed our U19 side to League glory later that year, as our young Blues defeated Galway United FC away from home to be crowned the 2019 U19 League of Ireland champions.
The UEFA Pro Licence holder made the step-up to our first-team set-up for the 2022 season as one of our first-team coaches. After a difficult start to the season, Gary & David Breen took charge for 6 games in our First Division campaign, where they had an impressive 100% record winning six out of six games before Danny Searle was announced as Head Coach.

2023 saw Hunt heavily involved with Keith Long’s backroom set-up, as the Blues earned promotion back to the Premier Division through the Promotion/Relegation final, before Hunt made the decision to leave the club to take up the management role with Cobh Ramblers in the 2024 First Division.
In Hunt’s first year as a senior manager in the League of Ireland, he helped Ramblers finish in 8th position in the league table, whilst achieving Cobh’s third-highest points-per-game ratio in the past seven years, and integrating ten young academy players into matchday squads throughout the season.

Hunt now makes the move back to the RSC ahead of 2025, where he spoke on his excitement to lead our Women’s side for 2025:
“I’m delighted to be back. An opportunity came over the last few weeks, and it was something I wasn’t hesitant about taking. I’m really looking forward to getting started with the group, and taking Waterford into a new era.
I have a background here in the academy and first-team where I’ve had some brilliant successes on the pitch, and I’m looking forward now to hopefully carrying that over to the Women’s side. What success looks like for us over the first year might be a bit different but I’m really looking forward to taking this group and setting up something for Waterford that has been a long-time coming”.

To listen to Gary’s first interview as Waterford Women’s FC Head Coach, click HERE.
Group CEO Steve Curwood also commented on Hunt’s appointment, explaining why Gary was the ideal candidate for the role:
“It’s superb to have Gary back. We know Gary, he did a great job around the first team over the last couple years. He obviously went to Cobh and the time he’s had there has now prepared him for management.
Maybe it wasn’t something he had anticipated doing but knowing the city, knowing the club, people knowing Gary, it just seemed a perfect fit when we spoke around getting somebody to grow something new within the organisation.”
Stay tuned to our social media over the coming weeks, where our first signings will be revealed!