IT’S not just footballers who date glamorous Wags.
Their managers have also scored off the pitch with these beautiful women too.
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From a British glamour model to an actress who appeared in CSI: Miami, SunSport invites you to meet the football manager’s wives and girlfriends.
And we kick off with an Argentinian/Spanish stunner.
Lorena Bernal
Lorena, 45, is the wife of Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta.
She began a career in modelling when she was seven, and by age 17 she won the Miss Spain pageant.
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In 2002, she met Arteta for the first time at a nightclub in the Spanish coastal town of San Sebastian.
Lorena has also tried her hand at acting, appearing on American TV shows Chuck and CSI: Miami.
They share three sons together, Gabriel, Daniel, and Oliver.
Lucy Pinder
Lucy, a former FHM and Nuts staple, got together with current Leicester City boss Russell Martin in around June 2024.
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They went public with their romance months later when she accompanied him to Brighton University, where he picked up an honorary degree.
Back in February, after roughly 18 months together, they revealed they had got married.
Aside from her glam photoshoots, Lucy, now 42, has also appeared on Celebrity Big Brother and various independent movies.
Karo Berger
German actress and model Anna Karolin Berger, shortened to Karo on her socials, recently went public with Brighton boss Fabian Hurzelar.
Munich-based Anna currently stars in popular German soap Sturm der Liebe (Love Storm).
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The 34-year-old has appeared in a host of films and TV shows since making her screen debut in 2017, having previously worked in theatre.
German media reported she and Hurzeler have maintained a long-distance relationship.
Daniella Semaan Fabregas
Now 51, when her husband Cesc Fabregas was playing for Chelsea she was dubbed ‘Queen of the Wags’.
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The Lebanese beauty, and mother of five children, met the Spain legend in 2011 in a Japanese restaurant in Knightsbridge, London.
She revealed how she approached his table to ask for an autograph for her football-mad son, Joseph and they soon swapped numbers.
They now live an idyllic life in Como, where Premier League icon Cesc coaches, and she counts Lionel Messi’s wife Antonella Roccuzzo as one of her best pals.
Christine Lampard
Christine met Coventry City manager Frank Lampard in 2009 at the Pride of Britain Awards.
They married six years later in front of friends and family at St Paul’s Church in Knightsbridge. They had their reception at private members club, The Arts Club.
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Christine, 47, and Frank share two kids together, a daughter born in 2018 and a son born in 2021.
She is best known as a TV presenter for The One Show and Loose Women.
Rachel Mason
Gorgeous Rachel, 34, met Ryan Mason, who was most recently head coach at West Brom, when she was studying business and economics at Lancaster University.
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She supported Ryan through his life-threatening skull fracture injury in 2017 that forced his retirement from professional football.
They share three children: a son born in 2017 and two daughters born in 2019 and 2023.
The couple walked down the aisle in Mallorca in June 2022.
Nagore Aranburu
Nagore, 46, and her husband, Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso are childhood sweethearts.
Like Arteta and Lorena, they met as teenagers in San Sebastian, before marrying in 2009. Months later, the former Liverpool midfielder and his Wag would leave Anfield for Real Madrid.
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She is a model-turned-fashion designer, who has supported Alonso during his career in football.
They share three children together, Jon, Ane, and Emma.
Emma Saunders
Sky Sports presenter Emma, 33, dates current Auxerre coach, Will Still.
The couple made their relationship Instagram official in 2024 attending a match at Euro 2024.
But, in early 2025, Emma faced a severe health crisis, fighting thyroid cancer and viral brain infection encephalitis that left her in a coma.
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Will swiftly quit his job at French club Lens to be by her side.
She returned to Sky Sports in 2025, thanking Will for his support in an emotional interview.
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