Ashleigh Neville

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Ashleigh Neville
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Neville in 2024
Personal information
Full name Ashleigh Neville
Date of birth (1993-04-29) 29 April 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth West Bromwich, England [1]
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Fullback, Wingback, Winger
Team information
Current team
 Tottenham Hotspur
Number 29
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011–2013 Sporting Club Albion 33 (16)
2013–2017 Coventry United 69 (20)
2017– Tottenham Hotspur 128 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15:33, 4 November 2024 (UTC)

Ashleigh Neville (born 29 April 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Tottenham Hotspur. She previously played for Sporting Club Albion and Coventry City in the FA Women's Premier League.

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Career

Sporting Club Albion

Neville began her career with her local club Sporting Club Albion. Her final season with the club was the 2012–13 FA WPL season in which she made 23 appearances and scored 14 goals in all competitions while her team finished fourth out of nine teams in the third level Northern Division. [2]

Coventry United

Neville joined newly founded Coventry City for the 2013–14 season. In her time with the club she had 69 appearances and 20 goals. [3] She made 20 appearances for the club, now known as Coventry United, in the 2016–17 season, her final with the team. [4]

Tottenham Hotspur

On 14 July 2017, Neville was announced as having signed for Tottenham Hotspur after their promotion to the FA WSL 2 for the 2017–18 season. Her former club Coventry United were title rivals with Tottenham in the FA WPL Premier Division Southern Division, but fell four points behind Spurs who won promotion. [5]

Neville appeared in 36 matches and scored a total of five goals during her first two seasons with the club. [6] Neville was named Player of the Year for Tottenham for 2017–18, and was FAWC Player of the Month for April 2019. [7] Tottenham's first top flight season would ultimately end prematurely, but Neville appeared in 13 of 15 matches and helped Spurs finish seventh out of twelve sides. [8]

On 12 June 2020, Neville re-signed with Tottenham through the end of the 2022 season. [9] In the 2021–22 WSL season, Neville was ranked first for tackles and interceptions, and for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons, she would continue to be ranked first for tackles. [10]

Personal life

Neville married her wife Liz in June 2022. She and her partner have two children, Blake and Remi. [11] [12] She previously worked as a full time primary school teacher, where she would travel from her home in Birmingham to London two to three times a week to train before turning fully professional in 2017. [13] [14]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 3 November 2024 [15] [16]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague FA cup League cup [a] Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Sporting Club Albion 2011–12 Women's Premier League North 1970000197
2012–13Women's Premier League North14931322012
Total331631323919
Coventry United 2013–14 Women's Premier League South 1744031245
2014–15Women's Premier League South1774040257
2015–16Women's Premier League South1852143249
2016–17Women's Premier League South1744031245
Total69201411459726
Tottenham Hotspur 2017–18 Women's Championship 1710040211
2018–19Women's Championship1942140255
2019–20 Women's Super League 1302030180
2020–21 Women's Super League1223030182
2021–22 Women's Super League2132030263
2022–23 Women's Super League2132011244
2023–24 Women's Super League1914020251
2024–25 Women's Super League60001070
Total1281415121116416
Career total2305032338830061

Honours

Coventry United

Tottenham Hotspur

Individual

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  2. ↑ "West Bromwich Albion Womens | The FA Women's National League". fulltime.thefa.com. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "Ash Neville: "Coventry helped me become the player I am and who Spurs knew I could transform into"". Tottenham Hotspur. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
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