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Some parts of this site are being updated ready for the 2022-3 Season. Please excuse some temporary gaps.
On Sunday Spurs Women went on the road and beat Brighton and Hove Albion’s Women’s team 8-0. To put that in context: Spurs scored three more goals than they have scored in their last five outings across all competitions. They scored twice as many goals as they have ever before scored in a single Barclays …
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Tottenham travelled to the Broadfield Stadium to take on 10th-placed Brighton and Hove. Tottenham welcomed Kerys Harrop back into the squad after an injury had kept out the veteran. Both teams were looking to bounce back after defeats last weekend Lineups. Brighton 4-4-1-1: Walsh in goal, Green in a right-back with Williams and Kulberg in …
On Saturday in the 2nd minute of Spurs game at Brisbane Road Ellie Brazil left the pitch. She was on a stretcher. Her knee was bandaged. Her game was over. With just first five games of the season gone, Ellie is the third Spurs player to sustain a serious injury. Add these to the multiple …
The basics on how to watch THWFC games in person or online.
There is now a 2022/3 fixture list (although note that times/days WILL change when TV picks are determined).
For those of you new to women’s football. Fixtures are usually held on Sundays (although this can vary). The 2022/3 season starts on the weekend of 10/11 September and ends in May, with lots of breaks.
In the coming season Spurs will be playing the following competitive games:
I cannot emphasise strongly enough how great it is to go watch games in person. And since it’s super-easy to get a ticket and get to the grounds there is no reason not to go!
Season Tickets. For 2022/3 season tickets are SOLD OUT.
This year adult season tickets were £70 (others are cheaper).
You can now buy tickets for home games from the Spurs website.
Note, however, that most games are listed as at 2pm on a Sunday. This may change. The exact day/kick-off time is dependent on TV schedules and will change quite late in the day. So do not book transport/accomodation until these are confirmed.
Ticketing now is done via the Spurs ticket-office and works very similarly to the men’s but it’s cheap.
Tickets are available to buy on the day at the ticket office at Brisbane Road. It may be a bit more expensive but not much.
This year we are at Brisbane Road Stadium, home of Leyton Orient FC for 2022/23.
It’s pretty easy to go to away games and if you’re in London there are quite a lot of WSL teams with grounds that are near enough to get to via public transport (Arsenal, West Ham and Chelsea). Other games are further afield.
Buying tickets: This may be changing a bit. But historically you have been required to go to the relevant away team’s site to buy tickets for away games. It’s typically straightforward, but you have to register for each team’s site, and that sometimes involves two stages. You will then essentially be buying a ticket as if you are a fan of that team (a little disconcerting to become a ‘Chelsea supporter’). Since most women’s games do not have segregated fans it’s random whether you end up in an area of Spurs or other supporters, but in most cases seats are also unasigned so you can move.
For bigger games at main stadiums (e.g. Arsenal away at the Emirates) tickets are sold via the Spurs site. So do check there (scroll to the end of the page for away tickets).
As I gain experience of away stadiums I’ll add a few comments here. My first take is that they are typically in the arse-end-of-nowhere, but that’s part of the fun.
Arsenal play at Boreham Wood, which is hard to get to, but for the last couple of years they’ve held NLDs at the Emirates. So that means a big stadium in central London and in walking distance of public transport: Drayton Park, Highbury and Islington, Finsbury Park and Canonbury stations are all fine. For this game it’s important to get tickets in the ‘Away end’ if you don’t want to be surrounded by Arsenal fans.
Brighton play at Broadfield Stadium, near Crawley. There is a car park. But on public transport from London it requires you get a train to Three Bridges or to Gatwick and then a #20 bus. These have reasonably regular services so it’s not too much of a trek. The stadium itself is quite small with standing terraces at either end and seated stands along the sides. The season ticket holders sit on the side with the dugouts. The other stand is where there is an away end and more home supporters. It also has posts but these don’t really affect the view. There is allocated seating, but no barriers between seats so when games are not sold out it’s pretty straightforward to move to stand at an end if you so wish. The atmosphere is definitely improved by being at a stadium in which all four ends are occupied with fans. The food is typcial stadium-fare with a decent veggie pie and a selection of meat options. Home fans are friendly and lively. A decent day out.
Chelsea play most of their games at Kingsmeadow. This is a dedicated Chelsea women/academy team stadium and has their colours. It’s on the outskirts of London but walking distance from Norbiton station (which is about 20 mins journey from Vauxhall). There seems to be parking either at the grounds or nearby. Games sometimes sell out (relatively rare in WSL) and this means it’s atmospheric. The stadium has seating on three sides: West side (mostly Season Ticket holders and has an indoor cafe/bar next to it), North (often includes away fans) and East which has a designated ‘Home’ and ‘Away’ parts, but isn’t always used in that way. There is also a standing terrace (South). Tickets are assigned to a stand but you can move within that. As well as the indoor cafe/bar there are food trucks at each corner of the stadium.
Everton play at Walton Hall Park, which is a small stadium on the road out of Liverpool, a little way beyond Goodison. There are buses which take you from there to the Centre of Liverpool, but they’re not very regular. There is also a car park, which did not seem very busy. The stadium is surrounded by a park and has stands along the sides only, although usually only one is open for spectators. You can also stand at the edge of the pitch at either end behind the goal (or near that), meaning that you can move to the end your team is attacking each half. There is one food truck.
Leicester, like Reading, play at their main men’s stadium. That is the King Power stadium. It’s not right in the centre of town, but is nonetheless walking distance from the station. Facilities at the station are decent.
Manchester City play in the Academy Stadium, a short four stop tram ride (Blue line) from Manchester Picadilly station. So it’s very easy to get to (once you get to Manchester!). The stadium is modern, with a high quality pitch, lots of staff, large screen etc. Tickets are assigned, but the stands are big so it’s easy to move to sit where you want. The view is good with no obstructions and seating across the centre-line. There is a small section of loud home-support but it’s not intimidating. There are notably good food/drink outlets with homemade cakes and meat/veggie pies.
Manchester United play in Leigh Valley, somewhere between Manchester and Liverpool. There is decent public transport but it seems that a lot of fans come by car. You can choose seats in one of two stands (West – along the pitch or South – behind the goal). There’s no seating above the coaching staff etc, so West stand seating is spread towards the corners. There was a big group of loud home support in the West stand; South stand was quieter with a notable sprinkling of Spurs fans. Despite seeming to be a newish complex, there were massive queues for food/drink/loos.
Reading play at the same stadium as their men’s team, currently known as the Select Car Leasing Stadium. It is in an out of town shopping centre, meaning that there is a car park. But if you’re coming by public transport it is a long bus ride followed by a 10-15 minute walk from Reading station. Tickets are usually sold on just one side of the stadium, starting at the lower tier. This means that if you wait to get your ticket you might end up quite high. There isn’t an away end, so check out Spurs Women’s Supporter’s club for suggestions of an area to sit in if you want to be around Spurs fans. As a relatively big stadium (for the women’s game) the facilities are pretty decent, with lots of toilets, and a range of foods and drinks.
West Ham play in the Dagenham and Redbridge stadium. It’s an easy walk from the tube (Dagenham East on the District Line) and a proper old-school stadium with creaking turnstiles. Annoyingly you have to select your seats in advance, and the seating areas are divided up even within a stand so there are limits to where you can move. In my case this meant I ended up surrounded by loud West Ham fans (not my favourite place to be!). That said, I appreciated the intense atmosphere.
Information below on how to watch games online in the UK and US (click to jump to relevant info).
If you have information about how to watch in other territories, please get in touch with your suggestions and they’ll be added.
Spurs Play now screens selected Spurs Women games.
The FA Player streams most Spurs games live (WSL, FA Cup, Conti Cup). The exception is games selected for Sky/BBC, for which it provides audio commentary only (although you may still be able to watch these on the FA Player with a VPN). You can find all past games, brief highlights for each game, the Women’s Football Show (that also screens on the BBC late on Sunday nights), as well as other women’s football content, including FAWC games. Games are available for catch-up on the FA Player about 24 hours after they are shown live.
You can watch online or download the FA Player from Google Play or the App Store. You will need to register. If you’re not in the UK you can watch most games live with the FA Player (more info on the US below).
When games are not selected for Sky/BBC they tend to be filmed with a single camera meaning that bits of the action may be cut out by the angle. Commentary can also be a bit glitchy, sometimes disappearing completely (assuming this is a technical issue); and since it’s often just one person doing the commentary it’s a little hit and miss: key moments can come and go without the commentator noticing. That said, it’s great to get to see all our games and for free.
Should Spurs ever get to the Champions League (or if you fancy watching the teams that have made it that far) you can watch games streaming live via Dazn on youtube. What’s great about this is that they have multiple streams for each game with audio commentary in relevant languages – depending on where the teams are from. Like the FA Player there can be technical glitches but it’s a more than decent service.
If you’re watching from the US, the majority of matches will be streamed on Spurs Play or the FA Player (free login required). Select matches are shown on NBC, either on the USA TV network or on nbcsports.com (TV provider login required). On rare occasions there might be a match on the Peacock streaming service for NBC. Starting with the 2022/23 season, the US TV rights for the WSL will be transferring from NBC to CBS network, and matches will then air on either CBS Sports Network or stream on Paramount+. There is also the option of watching select matches on ATA Football, a subscription streaming service. The ATA streams have much more commentary than the FA Player broadcasts (including halftime coverage), but ATA doesn’t stream every Spurs Women match.
There is a THWFC Supporters group on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Proud Lilywhites, the official Spurs LGBTQ+ Supporters group is on Twitter and have a website.
For any US-based fans, you can sign up for this Spurs Across the Pond newsletter that covers both men’s and women’s teams.
If you have other contact info that could help connect Spurs Women supporters get in touch.
This is the 2022-3 Tottenham Hotspur Women’s Squad.
Click on a player’s name to find out more (or scroll down to read about the whole squad). [note: this is being developed – more player details are being added]
Players marked with a * are likely to be unavailable for the first part of the season due to injury or another reason.
| Number | Player | Position |
| 1 | Tinja-Riikka Korpela | GK |
| 3 | Shelina Zadorsky | DF |
| 4 | Amy Turner | DF |
| 5 | Molly Bartrip | DF |
| 6 | Kerys Harrop | DF |
| 7 | Jessica Naz | FW |
| 8 | So-hyun Cho | MF |
| 9 | Nikola Karczewska | FW |
| 10 | Ellie Brazil | MF |
| 11 | Ramona Petzelberger | MF |
| 12 | Ria Percival* | MF |
| 13 | Asmita Ale | DF |
| 14 | Celin Bizet | FW |
| 15 | Angharad James | MF |
| 16 | Kit Graham* | MF |
| 17 | Kyah Simon | FW |
| 18 | Chioma Ubogagu* | FW |
| 22 | Becky Spencer | GK |
| 23 | Rosella Ayane | FW |
| 24 | Drew Spence | MF |
| 25 | Eveliina Summanen | MF |
| 26 | Gracie Pearse | DF |
| 27 | Eleanor Heeps | GK |
| 29 | Ashleigh Neville | DF |
| 30 | Esther Morgan* | DF |
Goalkeeper
Age (at 1 Sept 2022): 36
Height: 176cm (5 ft 9)
Joined Spurs: Summer 2021
Contract runs until: Summer 2023
League Appearances for Spurs: 11
League Starts for Spurs: 11
League Goals for Spurs: 0
Previous clubs: Everton (2019-21), Vålerenga (2018-19), Bayern Munich (2014-18), Tyresö FF (2013–2014), LSK Kvinner (2012–2013), Kolbotn (2010–2011), FC Honka (2006–2009).
International Career: 105 caps for Finland. National team Captain. Current member of the team.
Summary: Fantastic shot-stopper. Perhaps best exemplified by her performance in the North London Derby at the Hive in 2021. Tinni finished fourth in the league in ‘save percentage’ in 2021-2.
Since her arrival Tinni has alternated in goal with Becky Spencer (who was here prior to her). In the 2021-2 season they each played 11 WSL games.
Tinni has helped the club to recruit other players, including compatriot, Eveliina.
Tinni was four-times in a row awarded Finnish Female Footballer of the Year (2013-2016).
More info: https://fbref.com/en/players/9df8e322/Tinja-Riikka-Korpela
Centre-back. At Spurs has mostly been used as a Left-sided full-back, but in 2021-2 also featured as one of a back three.
Age (at 1 Sept 2022): 31
Height: 1.75m (5 ft 9)
Joined Spurs: Summer 2020
Contract runs until: Summer 2023
League Appearances for Spurs: 33
League Starts for Spurs: 29
League Goals for Spurs: 2
Previous clubs: Birmingham City (2011-2020). Kerys had been a one-club player and club Captain before leaving Birmingham to join Spurs. While at Birmingham she won the FA Cup (2012) and got to the semi-finals of the Champions League (2014)
International Career: Played at England Under 20.
Summary: Kerys reads the game well, and her style of play depends on this understanding and excellent positioning. She is less likely to tackle a player than lead them into a dead end or shepherd the ball out of play.
She has a powerful shot but doesn’t get into goalscoring positions often. She sometimes limits her minutes due to a recurring back injury.
On the field Kerys is a leader – look out for her instructing teammates with hand gestures and commentary during the game.
Kerys has a masters degree and PGCE and is an advocate for dual careers. She writes a regular column for SheKicks.
More info: https://fbref.com/en/players/c6966699/Kerys-Harrop
This is unfinished. More squad info to come.
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