The beautiful game is expanding all the time, and the Tottenham Hotspur Women’s team are now a force to be reckoned with in their own right. Here’s all you need to know about the women’s side.
Club Name: Tottenham Hotspur Women
Founding Year: 1985
Home Stadium: Gaughan Group Stadium
Training Ground: Hotspur Way
Current League: Barclays FA Women’s Super League
Current Manager: Robert Vilahamn
Club captain: Bethany England
Tottenham Hotspur’s womens team actually started life as Broxbourne Ladies, founded by Sue Sharples and Kay Lovelock in 1985. However, the team was given permission to adopt the Tottenham name in 1991, and just a year later the women’s side were given permission to start a reserves team, too.
Thanks to the efforts of former chairman, the late Glenn Weaver, the women’s side grew and grew throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s. And now, the club is one of the biggest in the WSL, and offers an innovative Female Talent Pathway that helps young women join the game.
Tottenham Hotspur Women achievements and honours
These are all the trophies and achievements won by the Tottenham Hotspur Women‘s team to date:
- Middlesex County Cup Runners-up: 1991/92
- Greater London Regional Women’s League Premier Division Runners-up: 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 2000/01
- Greater London Regional Women’s League Division One Champions: 1997/98
- Greater London Regional Women’s League Cup Winners: 1995/96
- Greater London Regional Women’s League Cup Runners-up: 1998/99, 2003/04
- London and South-East Regional Women’s Football League Premier Division Champions: 2007/08
- FA South-East Combination Champions: 2010/11
- London County Senior Cup Winners: 2011/12
- Ryman’s Women’s Cup Runners-up: 2014/15
- Ryman Women’s Cup Winners: 2015/16, 2016/17
- Capital Women’s Cup Runners Up: 2015/16, 2016/17
- FA Women’s Premier League Cup Winners: 2015/16, 2016/17
- FA Women’s Premier League Southern Division Winners: 2016/17
- FA Women’s Premier League Championship Play-off Winners: 2016/17 (promoted to tier two)
- FA Women’s Championship Runners-up: 2018/19 (promoted to FA Women’s Super League)
The club has also won the Sport England Volunteer Investment Programme Award in 2002 for services to the London borough. Later, the club received the FA Charter Standard Club in 2006 and the FA Charter Standard Female Club for the London FA in 2008.
Former chairman, Glenn Weaver, was posthumously awarded the FA National Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Community Football’ in 2015.
More recently, the women’s side pulled in a crowd of crowd of 38,262 for the first-ever North London derby in the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium back in November 2019, which remains a record attendance for the Barclays FA WSL.
Home Stadium
Tottenham Hotspur Women play their home fixtures at Leyton Orient’s Brisbane Road, which is also known as the Gaughan Group Stadium and have also played some fixtures at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium against the likes of Arsenal Ladies.
Tottenham Hotspur Women manager
Robert Vilahamn is a Swedish coach who has been manager of Tottenham Hotspur Women since the summer of 2023. He previously only coached in his native Sweden, at clubs like BK Hacken where he was assistant manager of the men’s team, and later taking over as manager of the women’s side there.
Tottenham Hotspur Women’s players
The Tottenham Hotspur Women’s side is captained by Bethany England, and the squad includes top talent like Ashleigh Neville, Matilda Vinberg, and Barbora Votikova.
Here’s the full squad list:
1. Barbora Votikova (GK)
2. Charlotte Grant
4. Amy James-Turner
5. Molly Bartrip
6. Amanda Nilden
7. Jessica Naz
8. Grace Clinton
9. Bethany England (C)
10. Ellie Brazil
11. Ramona Petzelberger
13. Matilda Vinberg
14. Celin Bizet Ildhusoy
16. Kit Graham
17. Martha Thomas
20. Olga Ahtinen
21. Luana Buhler
22. Becky Spencer (GK)
23. Rosella Ayane
24. Drew Spence
25. Eveliina Summanen
27. Eleanor Heeps (GK)
29. Ashleigh Neville
77. Shuang Wang
Social Media
Facebook: @SpursWomen
Twitter: @SpursWomen