Link: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48559800/ranking-top-20-best-women-soccer-club-managers-world

ESPN ranks the top 20 women's managers in the club game. Who's No. 1? And how will the NWSL, WSL, Liga F and other leagues be represented?

Sports, unfortunately, is a very “But what have you done for me lately” kind of affair:

\10. Laura Harvey, 45, Seattle Reign

Style: 7/10
People management: 8.5/10
History/achievements: 8/10
X factor: 7/10
TOTAL: 31.5/40

In the rapidly evolving women's soccer space, it's important to know your history. No coach has stuck around in the NWSL like Harvey has, and in 2025 she reinvented herself and the Seattle Reign after a wretched prior season to get back into the playoffs and build a better foundation for the team's overhaul.

Harvey has won three NWSL Shields -- and a handful of trophies with Arsenal before that, don't forget -- and has thrice been named NWSL Coach of the Year. Her 2014 Seattle team was one of the best in league history. She is fiercely lauded by players past and present for her management of and care for them, arguably more so than any other player on this list.

The evolution of the NWSL has challenged some of Harvey's ideas, and the Reign are not yet a bona fide championship threat for 2026, but Harvey has asserted herself as both a torch-bearer in a male-dominated league. -- Kassouf