Clubname: | Lewes F.C. Women |
Fullname: | Lewes Football Club Women |
Nickname: | The Rooks |
Founded: | 2002[1] |
Ground: | The Dripping Pan, Lewes |
Capacity: | 3,000 (600 seated) |
Manager: | Natalie Lawrence |
Website: | http://www.lewesfc.com |
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Lewes Football Club Women is a women's football club affiliated with Lewes F.C. The club compete in the and play at The Dripping Pan. The team's highest ever league finish was 5th place in the second-tier FA Women's Championship in 2020–21.
Lewes Ladies FC was established in 2002 as the women's affiliate of Lewes FC, a not-for-profit club helping pioneer 100% fan and community ownership. The team started playing in the South East Counties football league and within a ten-year period climbed through the pyramid, winning promotion to the fourth-tier FA Women's Premier League in 2012 following an unbeaten season.[2]
In 2017, Lewes became the first professional or semi-professional football club to pay its women's team the same as its men's team as part of their Equality FC initiative.[3]
In 2018, the team was awarded a place in the FA Women's Championship.[4] In September 2019 club director Barry Collins resigned, frustrated at the board's preoccupation with equality campaigning: "I joined a football club and feel like I'm leaving a political party".[5]
Nationality | From | To | Ref.< | -- |
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DJ Hamilton | 2008 | 2013 | ||
John Donoghue | 2013 | 10 June 2014 | --> | |
Jacquie Agnew | 2002 | June 2014 | [6] [7] [8] | |
John Donoghue | June 2014 | November 2018 | [9] [10] [11] | |
Fran Alonso | December 2018 | January 2020 | [12] [13] [14] | |
Simon Parker | January 2020 | [15] | ||
Scott Booth | Present | |||
Key
Champions | Runners-up | Promoted | Relegated |
Season | Division | FA Cup | |||||||||
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League | |||||||||||
2002–03 | |||||||||||
2003–04 | [16] | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 21 | 27 | 3rd | ||
2004–05 | [17] | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 14 | 35 | 3rd | R2 | |
2005–06 | [18] | 22 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 85 | 20 | 55 | 2nd | ||
2006–07 | [19] | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 68 | 15 | 55 | 1st | ||
2007–08 | |||||||||||
2008–09 | |||||||||||
2009–10 | R3 | ||||||||||
2010–11 | R1 | ||||||||||
2011–12 | R2 | ||||||||||
2012–13 | [20] | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 5th | R2 | |
2013–14 | [21] | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 6th | R3 | |
2014–15 | [22] | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 31 | 37 | 21 | 7th | R3 | |
2015–16 | [23] | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 30 | 42 | 25 | 7th | R3 | |
2016–17 | [24] | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 31 | 36 | 25 | 7th | R3 | |
2017–18 | [25] | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 45 | 25 | 44 | 5th | R5 | |
2018–19 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 47 | 17 | 9th | R4 | ||
2019–20 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 8th | R5 | ||
2020–21 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 28 | 5th | R4 | ||
2021–22 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 24 | 29 | 8th | R3 | ||
2022–23 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 26 | 9th | QF | ||
2023–24 | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 39 | 16 | 11th | R3 |