| Ashleigh Neville | |
| Fullname: | Ashleigh Neville |
| Birth Date: | 1993 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | West Bromwich, England |
| Height: | 1.71 m |
| Currentclub: | Tottenham Hotspur |
| Clubnumber: | 29 |
| Position: | Fullback, Wingback, Winger |
| Years1: | 2011–2013 |
| Years2: | 2013–2017 |
| Years3: | 2017– |
| Clubs1: | Sporting Club Albion |
| Clubs2: | Coventry United |
| Clubs3: | Tottenham Hotspur |
| Caps1: | 33 |
| Goals1: | 16 |
| Caps2: | 69 |
| Goals2: | 20 |
| Caps3: | 113 |
| Goals3: | 14 |
| Club-Update: | 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]
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]
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]
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.
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]
| Season | League | FA cup | League cup | 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 | Championship | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | |
| 2018–19 | 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 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 1 | ||
| Total | 113 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 144 | 16 | |||
| Career total | 215 | 50 | 28 | 3 | 37 | 8 | 280 | 61 | |||
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