Management Career
Akers was appointed head of Arsenal's community section in 1986 and in 1987 founded the Arsenal Ladies team. He has managed Arsenal Ladies to every major trophy in English women's football — the FA Women's Cup ten times, the FA Women's Premier League Cup ten times and the FA Women's Premier League eleven times; this included five League and FA Women's Cup Doubles and four domestic Trebles. Akers also won the UEFA Women's Cup with Arsenal in 2007, the first English side to do so. He retired in 2009 from the Arsenal Ladies post having won thirty-two major trophies in total. He is now Arsenal's kit manager.
Akers was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.
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