| Ashleigh Neville | |
| Fullname: | Ashleigh Neville |
| Birth Date: | 1993 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | West Bromwich, England[1] |
| Height: | 1.71 m |
| Currentclub: | Tottenham Hotspur |
| Clubnumber: | 29 |
| Position: | Fullback, Wingback, Winger |
| Years1: | 2011–2013 |
| Clubs1: | Sporting Club Albion |
| Caps1: | 33 |
| Goals1: | 16 |
| Years2: | 2013–2017 |
| Clubs2: | Coventry United |
| Caps2: | 69 |
| Goals2: | 20 |
| Years3: | 2017– |
| Clubs3: | Tottenham Hotspur |
| Caps3: | 128 |
| Goals3: | 14 |
| Club-Update: | 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.
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 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 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.
On 12 June 2020, Neville re-signed with Tottenham through the end of the 2022 season.[8] 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.[9]
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 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.[12] [13]
| 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 | 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 | |||
Coventry United
Tottenham Hotspur
Individual