Former Chelsea Women's Boss Paul Green Starts a New Chapter in San Francisco

When Paul Green left Chelsea after 13 years, so many of his medals were stored in a box under the bed that he only really appreciated what he had done once he was gone. Green was Chelsea's head of women's football. He worked closely with former manager Emma Hayes and helped the team win 19 major trophies, BBC Sport reports. He left suddenly in February.

Green said that football clubs move on, and that a lot of people had changed at Chelsea in recent years. He said he felt very proud of his work and that the club was in a better position when he left than when he arrived. Under his leadership, Chelsea won six league titles in a row in the Women's Super League, the last in 2025 under the current manager, Sonia Bompastor. They also reached the Women's Champions League final in 2021. Green says that what the players achieved will never be beaten, and that it will be hard for any team to repeat that level of success. He now has the time to get his medals framed.

After seven months out of the game, Green was named chief football officer of Bay FC, a club in San Francisco, in September. He said the response to his exit from Chelsea was overwhelming, and that it took him a long time to reply to everyone who got in touch. He also said that the lack of structure at first was hard after 13 years of set routines.

He is excited about his new job. The project is led by Kay Cossington, a former director at the Football Association, and the club belongs to a group called Bay Collective. Green hopes to use his knowledge of the transfer market to sign some of the best players in the world and to build a strong organization. He said the club sold him on its vision and that it is similar to the early days at Chelsea.

Bay FC will move to new training facilities next year. The team is third from the bottom of the National Women's Soccer League with three matches left in the 2026 season, and Green says the squad needs to improve right away.