County of Surrey
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)Gold and Blue, Surrey, IntSurrey
AssociationInternational Surrey Football
ConfederationWorld Unity Football Alliance
Head coachStephen Satterly
Most caps16 Players
Top scorerGuilia Ciarini Azzi (2)
Home stadiumVarious
First colours
Second colours
First international
Surrey Surrey 4 - 0 Afghanistan Dev 
(Dorking, Mole Valley; 29 May, 2022)
Biggest win
Surrey Surrey 4 - 0 Afghanistan Dev 
(Dorking, Mole Valley; 29 May, 2022)
WebsiteInternational Surrey Football

The Surrey Women's County Football Team, is a football team that represents the English county of Surrey. They are affiliated with WUFA, and therefore compete in the WUFA Women's World Unity Cup. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA, and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA Women's World Cup or the UEFA Women's European Championships. International Surrey Football is not affiliated with ConIFA and therefore cannot compete in ConIFA Women's World Football Cup.

Surrey does not have an official home stadium and plays at various venues throughout the region, and their training headquarters is at Merrist Wood College, Worplesdon near Guildford. The team's manager is Stephen Satterly.

History edit

Formed in 2019, the Surrey Women's County Football Team was intended to provide non-FIFA playing opportunities to women's players in the county similar to the team launched in 2014 for the surrey men's players. In January 2019 the team announced its coaching staff of Manager Stephen Satterly, Assistant Manager Leah Ambridge and coach Mike Parsonson. In February 2020, International Surrey Football announced a sponsorship and partnership arrangement with the Surrey base educational football development programme at Merrist Wood College which would also see the college become the team's home shirt sponsors.[1]

Team Image edit

Kit and Crest edit

Surrey plays in a yellow and blue kit, inverting the shirt, short and socks between their home and away, home with a two-toned yellow chequered shirt, and the away in blue. Colours and style are taken from the flag of Surrey. The Surrey badge, a modified version of the men's badge, features a female red deer, a hind, (without antlers), an iconic animal in Surrey.

Supplier and Sponsors edit

Period Kit supplier Shirt sponsor Sleeve Sponsor 1 Sleeve Sponsor 2 Back of shirt
2019–2022   Godzown Sports Merrist Wood College Surrey Football TV CW Sport Radio None
2023–   Hope & Glory Sportswear TBC WUFA WUFA Women's World Unity Cup

Home Stadium edit

The Surrey County Football Association own and operate the Meadowbank Stadium in Dorking, Mole Valley, which is home to Dorking Wanderers Football Club and serves as a venue for the Surrey FA's various county cup finals as well as being available to the local community to hire as well, effectively serving as Surrey's de jure home venue. Prior to the completion of the Meadowbank Stadium, Surrey County Cups were held at various across the county with the Surrey Senior Cup being played most recently at grounds such as Gander Green Lane, Imber Court, Kingsmeadow and Kingfield.

However, International Surrey Football does not have a designated national stadium and instead operates on a policy of rotating its home venue between fixtures as much as possible to provide wider coverage for fans to watch the team, often including a discount for fans of the club that operates the venue. The rotation policy applies to each Surrey team separately, the 3 regions Surrey is split between are Surrey London (Historic areas of Surrey that now form part of Greater London), East Surrey comprising of the boroughs of Mole Valley, Epsom and Ewell, Reigate and Banstead and Tandridge and West Surrey comprising of the borough of Runnymede, Surrey Heath, Woking, Elmbridge, Guildford and Waverley. The borough of Spelthorne, while a borough of Surrey was historically a borough of Middlesex and so it typically excluded from the ground rotation policy. This policy also allows for local clubs to host Surrey games as a new form of revenue with pitch hire fees being paid to a number of clubs operating their own facilities that do not typically offer their ground for hire to private groups.

On April 2nd, International Surrey Football announced that Merrist Wood College would host a 2-week training camp for both men's and women's teams, facilitated due to the college's sponsorship of Surrey's women's team, and would host several games for both teams.[2] The decision to base both teams at the further education college as part of their return to play, would allow the college to serve as ISF's base, comparable to The Football Association's St George's Park National Football Centre, for the purpose of training and preparing for tournaments, but other sites in Surrey may still be used.

Number of home matches by Borough edit

  • Includes all senior women's matches on Surrey soil, including friendlies and competitive fixtures
  • Updated to May 29, 2022
P Borough Matches Most Recent Opponent
1 Guildford 1 April 24, 2021   University of Surrey
Mole Valley 1 May 29, 2022   Afghanistan Development

Coaching staff edit

Position Name
President   Danny Clarke
Vice-President Honorary Role
General Secretary Vacant
Director of Women's Football Vacant
Manager   Stephen Satterly
Assistant Manager   Leah Ambridge
First Team Coach Vacant
Goalkeeping Coach   John O'Brien
Physio Vacant

Coaches Record edit

Manager Nat Span G W D L GF GA Win % Honours
Stephen Satterly   2019 - Present 1 1 0 0 4 0 100%
* Results against club sides excluded from record

Fixtures and Results edit

  Win   Draw   Loss

2021 edit

24 April Friendly (Club Series) Surrey   8 - 1   University of Surrey Women FC Worplesdon, Guildford
1:00 PM GMT Gemma Luke    ,
Chloe McNee   ,
Eva Keen   ,
Leah Ambridge  
  Stadium: Merrist Wood College
Attendance: 0 (Behind Closed Doors)

2022 edit

29 May Friendly Surrey   4 - 0   Afghanistan Development Dorking, Mole Valley
3:00 PM GMT Alice Curr   7'
Eva Keen   57'
Giulia Ciarini Azzi   79'  90'
Stadium: Meadowbank
Attendance: 107

2023 edit

30 April Friendly Surrey   v Merstham, Reigate and Banstead
1:00 PM GMT Stadium: Moatside
7 May Friendly Isle of Wight   v   Surrey Isle of Wight
3:00 PM GMT
June Friendly Surrey   v   Army FA Reserve
:00 PM GMT
June Friendly Surrey   v   Mercia
:00 PM GMT

Players edit

The following players played against   Afghanistan on Sunday 29th May, 2022.

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club
1GK Maureen McAllister 1 0   Wandsworth Borough FC Women
1GK Megan Palmer 1 0   Woking FC Women
2DF Lily Davis 1 0   Woking FC Women
2DF Olivia Stuart 1 0   Dorking Wanderers FC Ladies
2DF Annie Gillett 1 0   AFC Whyteleafe Women
2DF Affrika Alberts 1 0   Leatherhead FC Women
3MF Nichola Marr 1 0   Woking FC Women
3MF Charlotte Crook 1 0   Dorking Wanderers FC Ladies
3MF Eve Keen 1 1   Leatherhead FC Women
3MF Guliet Ciarini Azzi 1 2   McGill University
3MF Juliet Jacques 1 0   Clapton Community FC Women
3MF Jessica Downes-Evans 1 0   Woking FC Women
4FW Esme Parsons 1 0   Portsmouth FC Women
4FW Lola Meyer 1 0   Woking FC Women
4FW Alice Curr 1 1   QPR FC Women
4FW Sarah Chapman 1 0   Dorking Wanderers FC Ladies

Team captains edit

Player Surrey career
Emily Stanley 2021-present

See also edit

References edit

External links edit