Category: Girls football

A ‘right move’ for Accies Under 13’s Girls

Ashwell Accies U13 Girls with new sponsors Neil Wise from Ensum Brown

It’s been a ‘right move’ for the Ashwell Academicals Under 13 girls’ football team who have scored a new 2-year sponsorship deal with local multi-award winning estate agency, Ensum Brown.

The team is looking to build on the success of their 2022/23 season which saw them reach the final of the Herts Junior plate in May.

After a summer inspired by the Lionesses’ World Cup performances, the team have been joined by some new players and are motivated to show their continued development this season.

Team manager Neil Bassill said: “We are grateful to Ensum Brown for getting behind local grassroots girls’ football. This two-year sponsorship has enabled us to provide the team with a brand new kit to wear as they play their matches across Hertfordshire.”

Neil Wise, Managing Director of Ensum Brown, added: “We are delighted to be supporting our first local girls’ football team as the female game goes from strength-to-strength. The community fund aims to support initiatives which make a difference to the local area and we wish the Ashwell Academicals U13s girls the very best for the season ahead.”

The team welcomes new players who would like to play competitive football with girls their own age. Players in school years 7 and 8 are welcome to join the team for training which takes place on Tuesday evenings at 6pm in Ashwell, with matches being played on Saturdays.

To find out more please email u13girls@ashwellacademicals.com.

Our Accies Girls continue to develop and grow in the Cambridge United Girls Development Scheme

Congratulations to all our Accies Girls in the Cambridge United Girls Development Structure, who have either been retained in their Girls Development Centre (GDC), have been retained or advanced into their Elite Centre (GEC), or who have been selected to join the new FA Girls Emerging Talent Centre (ETC) for the coming 22/23 season.

All of these girls started their football with the Accies, and are all still playing for the Accies in either mixed teams or girls teams.  They have all worked so hard over the last few seasons to develop their match skills, and it is a fantastic achievement to be playing under the Cambridge United Development Scheme.

They should all be very proud of their accomplishments to date.

Izzy (U14’s) has retained her position in the Girls Development Centre

Ella-Jane (U12’s) has advance into the Girls Elite Centre

Amelie (U12’s) has retained her position in the Girls Elite Centre

Ailsa (U14’s) has advance into the Girls Elite Centre

Billie (U14’s) has retained her position in the Girls Elite Centre, and also been selected for the new FA National Girls Emerging Talent Centre

UEFA Women’s Euros 2022 Champions – A memorable day for women’s and girl’s football, and an inspiration to all our Accies …girls and boys.

Some of our Accies were lucky enough to be part of history at the weekend when they travelled to see England Women win the UEFA Women’s Euros 2022.

It was a fantastic experience, and a day we will all remember for a very long time. The impact this tournament & the lionesses will have on the next generation of players, and women in general, cannot be underestimated.

Great to see some of your photos from the day, and I understand some of our Accies even featured on the BBC coverage on the TV.

Congratulations to all of the England Women’s Team, and we are looking forward to seeing our inspired Accie Girls continuing the growth of girls football this coming season, and who knows, there may well be some future England players in our ranks.

What an exciting time to be part of the Women’s game!

Ashwell Accies U10 Girls Shine at the Weekend in their First Ever Tournament

Our under 10 girls performed amazingly well at their first ever competition at the weekend. The tournament hosted by Hitchin Belles saw 12 teams from all over Hertfordshire compete against each other over the course of the afternoon. The Accies showed brilliant teamwork and some excellent skills playing 5 matches, scoring 7 goals and finishing the event unbeaten. More importantly they all had a lot of fun!

It is a great beginning for the new team made up of U9 and U10 players who will begin playing in the Hertfordshire Girls Partnership League at the start of the next season. We are always looking for new players to join the team, if you know any girls in year 4 or 5 that might like to give football a go then please get in touch and we can get them along to give it a go. 

Accies Girls get a visit from Charlotte Crisp, Cambridge United first team player

This weekend we held our first ever all girls session. Accies girls from all of our age groups …including Under 6’s up to Under 12’s, got together to train and have some fun.

We were also extremely lucky to have a visit from Charlotte Crisp who is currently a first team player for Cambridge United Women, and is also Head of Youth Development at Cambridge Utd, as well as being the driving force and head coach behind their fast growing Girls development and elite centres.

Charlotte ran some drills for the girls, and then the girls had an opportunity to ask her some quite probing question.

We ended the morning with an enormous water fight …some of us are still drying off.

Thank you to the Under 12’s who helped set-up this session, run some of their own drills, and helped encourage some of our younger players.

Thank you to all the team coaches who were so enthusiastic about helping us promote and run this session, and all their help in the background over the last few weeks.

And thank you to Charlotte for giving her time and making the session so much fun.