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| Full name | Lewes Football Club Women | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Rooks | ||
| Founded | 2002[1] | ||
| Ground | The Dripping Pan, Lewes | ||
| Capacity | 3,000 (600 seated) | ||
| Manager | Natalie Lawrence | ||
| League | FA Women's National League South | ||
| 2023–24 | Women's Championship, 11th of 12 (relegated) | ||
| Website | Club website | ||
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Lewes Football Club Women is a women's football club affiliated with Lewes F.C. The club compete in the FA Women's National League South 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]
| Name | Nationality | From | To | Ref. |
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| Jacquie Agnew |  England
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2002 | June 2014 | [6][7][8] |
| John Donoghue | England
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June 2014 | November 2018 | [9][10][11] |
| Fran Alonso |  Spain
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December 2018 | January 2020 | [12][13][14] |
| Simon Parker | England
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January 2020 | [15] | |
| Scott Booth |  Scotland
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Present |
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Season | Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | FA Cup |
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| 2003–04 | SEC[16] | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 21 | 27 | 3rd | |
| 2004–05 | SEC[17] | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 14 | 35 | 3rd | R2 |
| 2005–06 | LSEWRFL[18] | 22 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 85 | 20 | 55 | 2nd | |
| 2006–07 | LSEWRFL[19] | 20 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 68 | 15 | 55 | 1st | |
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| 2009–10 | R3 | |||||||||
| 2010–11 | R1 | |||||||||
| 2011–12 | R2 | |||||||||
| 2012–13 | WPL South[20] | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 5th | R2 |
| 2013–14 | WPL South[21] | 20 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 6th | R3 |
| 2014–15 | WPL South[22] | 22 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 31 | 37 | 21 | 7th | R3 |
| 2015–16 | WPL South[23] | 22 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 30 | 42 | 25 | 7th | R3 |
| 2016–17 | WPL South[24] | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 31 | 36 | 25 | 7th | R3 |
| 2017–18 | WPL South[25] | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 45 | 25 | 44 | 5th | R5 |
| 2018–19 | Championship | 20 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 47 | 17 | 9th | R4 |
| 2019–20 | Championship | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 8th | R5 |
| 2020–21 | Championship | 20 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 28 | 5th | R4 |
| 2021–22 | Championship | 22 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 24 | 29 | 8th | R3 |
| 2022–23 | Championship | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 29 | 26 | 9th | QF |
| 2023–24 | Championship | 22 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 22 | 39 | 16 | 11th | R3 |
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