Ashleigh Neville

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Ashleigh Neville
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Playing for Tottenham Hotspur in 2019
Personal information
Full name Ashleigh Neville
Date of birth (1993-04-29) 29 April 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth West Bromwich, England
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 113 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Ashleigh Neville (born 29 April 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Women's Super League club Tottenham Hotspur. [1]

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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 Ladies 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 Women's Super League 2 for the 2017–18 season. Her former club Coventry United were title rivals with Tottenham Hotspur in the FA WPL Premier Division Southern Division, but ultimately fell four points behind Spurs who eventually won promotion. [5] She 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] It was announced on 12 June 2020, that she re-signed with Tottenham through the end of the 2022 season. [9] The following season Neville would appear 12 times out of 22 possible matches in the WSL as Spurs would finish in eighth place. [8]

Personal life

Neville married her wife Liz in June 2022. She and her partner have two children, Blake and Remi. [10] [11] She previously worked as a primary school teacher before turning fully professional upon entering the WSL. [12]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 16 December 2023 [13] [14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeague FA cup League cup [lower-alpha 1] 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 Championship 1710040211
2018–19Championship1942140255
2019–20 Women's Super League 1302030180
2020–21Women's Super League1223030182
2021–22Women's Super League2132030263
2022–23Women's Super League2132011244
2023–24Women's Super League1010020121
Total1131411120114416
Career total2155028337828061

Honours

Coventry United

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.
  4. ↑ Frith, Wilf (14 July 2017). "Neville Gets New Challenge With Spurs". She Kicks Women's Football Magazine. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  5. ↑ "Spurs Ladies sign highly-rated defender Ashleigh Neville". Tottenham Hotspur. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  6. ↑ "Ashleigh Neville – Soccer – Scoresway – Results, fixtures, tables and statistics". www.scoresway.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
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  10. ↑ "Tottenham's Ashleigh Neville: 'It's great being a mum but tiring at times'". The Guardian. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
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