Ladies Pre Season: West Ham Ladies first team have played three pre-season games. They started with Portsmouth at home which the Ladies won 4-1. That was followed by a 9-1 away win over Little Thurrock Dynamos and then Sunday’s away massive 16-0 win over Hertford Town LFC. They have two pre-season games reamining before the league kicks off. This Wednesday (5th August) the girls play Gillingham away who have been recently relegated from the FA Womens Premier League South. The game will be played at Chatham Town FC with a 7:30PM kick off. This Sunday 9th August, West Ham Ladies host lower league Shanklin LFC at AFC Hornchurch. Kick off is likely to be at 2PM. As for goal scorers during pre-season, Emma Sherwood has netted 7, new signing Paige Anderson-James has scored 6, Lily Mellors 4 and another new signing Shirvae Edwards has also scored 4.
Ladies New Season Tickets: Season tickets are now available. It costs just £55 for an adult season ticket which gives the holder access to all 11 FA Womens Premier League South games this season, PLUS home cup fixtures and potentially free access to the Ladies final ever game at the Boleyn Ground (subject to agreement with the club). Each adult season ticket holder is permitted to bring up to four children with them to the game completely free of charge.
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Ladies Sponsorship opportunities :West Ham Ladies are currently looking for a number of different sponsors ahead of the upcoming season. This could be individual players sponsorship, or even match, programme or website sponsors. The player sponsorship package includes two free ladies season tickets, a personalised video message from the sponsored player and regular mentions across the ladies official outlets. This is an example of the video message that the sponsor will receive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
First league game of the season: The first league fixture of the 2015/16 FA Womens Premier League South season is away to newcomers Coventry United on Sunday 16th August. Kick off is at 2pm at Bedworth United’s The Oval, Miners Welfare Park, Coventry Rd, Bedworth CV12 8NN. Entry is £3 adults and £1 kids. The Ladies first home match the following week against last years Southern champions Portsmouth (who lost the Super League play-off game to Northern winners Sheffield) has been postponed due to fixture clashes for Pompey. Details will be announced via @westhamladies when we have it.)
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First interview with new West Ham Ladies manager Marc Nurse