Ashleigh Neville

Ashleigh Neville
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*
Years Team Apps (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.

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 three children.[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
Club Season League FA cup League cup[a] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sporting Club Albion 2011–12 Women's Premier League North 19 7 0 0 0 0 19 7
2012–13 Women's Premier League North 14 9 3 1 3 2 20 12
Total 33 16 3 1 3 2 39 19
Coventry United 2013–14 Women's Premier League South 17 4 4 0 3 1 24 5
2014–15 Women's Premier League South 17 7 4 0 4 0 25 7
2015–16 Women's Premier League South 18 5 2 1 4 3 24 9
2016–17 Women's Premier League South 17 4 4 0 3 1 24 5
Total 69 20 14 1 14 5 97 26
Tottenham Hotspur 2017–18 Women's Championship 17 1 0 0 4 0 21 1
2018–19 Women's Championship 19 4 2 1 4 0 25 5
2019–20 Women's Super League 13 0 2 0 3 0 18 0
2020–21 Women's Super League 12 2 3 0 3 0 18 2
2021–22 Women's Super League 21 3 2 0 3 0 26 3
2022–23 Women's Super League 21 3 2 0 1 1 24 4
2023–24 Women's Super League 19 1 4 0 2 0 25 1
2024–25 Women's Super League 6 0 0 0 1 0 7 0
Total 128 14 15 1 21 1 164 16
Career total 230 50 32 3 38 8 300 61
  1. ^ includes FA Women's National League Cup, FA Women's National League Plate, FA Women's League Cup

Honours

Coventry United

Tottenham Hotspur

Individual

References

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  2. ^ "West Bromwich Albion Womens | The FA Women's National League". fulltime.thefa.com. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. 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. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. 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. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. 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.
  7. ^ a b c Menno, Dustin (10 May 2019). "Ashleigh Neville wins April FAWC Player of the Month". Cartilage Free Captain. Archived from the original on 8 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  8. ^ a b Ashleigh Neville at Soccerway
  9. ^ "New contract for Ashleigh Neville". Tottenham Hotspur. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  10. ^ Marsh, Charlotte (11 December 2023). "Ashleigh Neville exclusive: How Tottenham and WSL stalwart continues to evolve ahead of Man Utd clash live on Sky Sports". Sky Sports. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Tottenham's Ashleigh Neville: 'It's great being a mum but tiring at times'". The Guardian. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  12. ^ "At home with Ashleigh Neville!". Tottenham Hotspur. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
  13. ^ "From primary school teacher to playing in front of 38,000". www.newschainonline.com. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  14. ^ "Ashleigh Neville exclusive: How Tottenham and WSL stalwart continues to evolve ahead of Man Utd clash live on Sky Sports". Sky Sports. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  15. ^ "England - A. Neville - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". Archived from the original on 2 March 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  16. ^ "Ashleigh Neville player stats | the FA Women's National League". Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  17. ^ "Keynsham Town Ladies 0 Coventry United 7 | The FA Women's National League". fulltime.thefa.com. 6 March 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  18. ^ "Apr 24, Enfield Town Ladies 1 Coventry United 5 | The FA Women's National League". fulltime.thefa.com. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  19. ^ "February Barclays FA Women's Super League monthly awards". Sky Sports. 3 March 2022. Archived from the original on 20 February 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  20. ^ "Ashleigh Neville September Goal of the Month". Barclays FA WSL Twitter. 10 November 2022. Archived from the original on 15 October 2022.
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