Ashleigh Neville

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Full name Ashleigh Neville
Date of birth (1993-04-29) 29 April 1993 (age 32)
Place of birth West Bromwich, England[1]
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Ashleigh Neville
Neville in 2024
Personal information
Full name Ashleigh Neville
Date of birth (1993-04-29) 29 April 1993 (age 32)
Place of birth West Bromwich, England[1]
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position Fullback
Team information
Current team
Leicester City
Number 29
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2013 Sporting Club Albion 33 (16)
2013–2017 Coventry United 69 (20)
2017–2026 Tottenham Hotspur 151 (14)
2026– Leicester City 1 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 15:37, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Ashleigh Neville (born 29 April 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a full-back for Women's Super League club Leicester City.

She previously played for Sporting Club Albion and Coventry City in the FA Women's Premier League.

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]

Leicester City

On 8 January 2026, Neville signed a one and a half year contract with Leicester City.[11]

Personal life

Neville married her wife Liz in June 2022. She and her partner have three children.[12][13] 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.[14][15]

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