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Happy ending for Teversal

Teversal became one of the first teams to land a league title this season when they were
confirmed as the winners of the Nottinghamshire Ladies League Division Two last month.
The title success puts a happy ending to much hard work behind the scenes and joint
manager Lucy Smith told Women’s Soccer Scene how things were turned around in a relatively
short tine:
“Two seasons ago, in 2019, Teversal Ladies Football Club were on the brink of collapse
due to little interest in the recruitment of players and Senior Management moving forward
onto different coaching opportunities outside of Teversal Football Club, this left the future of
the ladies team in doubt.
“Myself and Chantelle Mcintosh agreed to take on the challenge as Joint
Coach/Managers, using our knowledge of the game and putting a plan of action together on
paper and making it happen. When we first took on the role, we both discussed our ambitions
of the team and what we want to realistically achieve for our women and to follow and
incorporate this into Teversal Football Club’s DNA. Myself and Chantelle had said that our aim
is to bring silverware to the club and to win the league title for Division Two!
“We started by reaching out to our players with a new approach to coaching, using our
own ideas and the ideas of the ladies to set out plans moving forward. We also set out plans for
local radio interviews and local newspaper interviews to help with player recruitment and
sponsorship opportunities (with thanks and help from our Captain Tiff Musgrove). One of our
main goals was to reach out to businesses for the ladies’ first ever sponsorship in over eight
years, with success and appreciation we were able to set up an interview with Mansfield 103.2
Radio and the Mansfield Chad newspaper, after reaching out to our local news outlets.
“We were first in touch with England internationals Jade Moore and Josanne Potter
who generously helped fund the start our our journey, I then had a call from NXTGen
Technology Ltd who had also been inspired by our story, we discussed options of sponsorship
and what would be beneficial to our ladies and also most importantly to our sponsors. After
discussions we then received that all important phone call - SUCCESS - we were then able to
secure our first ever team sponsor, new training kit, training jackets, new home and away kit…
WOW! this was overwhelming for our ladies as this was the first time we had ever secured a
sponsor, we had always inherited the previous season kit handed down from the mens senior
team, this was no more….. the women were ecstatic. This gave the team a new lease of life and
faith within the new management team and that is all thanks to our fantastic sponsors who
gave us this opportunity, NXTGen Technology Ltd, on behalf of Teversal Ladies FC, we thank
you.
“With a lot of work and preparations happening in the background, we successfully
managed to recruit a new secretary, Jodie Lofley, Pete Warburton as Goalkeeper coach, Emma
Anthony - first aider and all round mother of our ladies team. With new management in place
and the story of TLFC, a number of ex-players returned to help out as Teversal Ladies FC holds
a special place in everyone’s heart involved within the club.
“On 6th February 2022 Teversal Ladies FC made history – doing something that no TLFC
team has done before. They did not only win the league, but they did it with four games to go…
winning 12 out of 12 games, achieving 36 points – being crowned the uncatchable champions!
“For many reading this, it might not seem a massive achievement winning Division Two,
but for those who know the struggles of TLFC and the challenges faced it is massive!
“Everyone I combed with Teversal Ladies Football Club play an important role, players,
the club, voluntary staff, top goalscorer of the league Abbey Jay Roberts (23 goals) with Kate
Pawlitta on 16 goals.”
Both Lucy and Chantelle have given up a lot of their own time to keep the team going but
there are a number of other who Lucy feels deserve a special mention:
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