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Notts County Ladies Football Club is a women's football club based in Nottingham, England. They currently play in the FA WSL, the top tier in the English women's football league system. Like the club's male affiliate Notts County FC, they play their home games at Meadow Lane. Notts County Ladies were created in 2014 when Lincoln Ladies were controversially relocated from Lincoln to Nottingham and rebranded. The club were originally formed in Lincoln in 1995 and also spent a period known as Lincoln City Ladies while affiliated to Lincoln City. Sincil Bank and other smaller venues staged the club's matches during their time in Lincoln. The club was named OOH Lincoln Ladies from 2008 until 2010, due to sponsorship from Ray Trew's OOH Media PLC. ==Lincoln Ladies== Lincoln Ladies FC were founded in 1995 and began playing in the East Midlands Combination League. The club was promoted in each of the following seasons, bar one, until reaching the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division in 2002.〔 This feat was achieved with the same core group of players. The team finished as league runners-up in four successive seasons (2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10) and reached the semi-final of the FA Women's Cup in 2007–08. A five-year sponsorship deal with former Lincoln City F.C. board member Ray Trew in June 2008 led to the club's change of name to OOH Lincoln Ladies. Trew had previously sponsored the club through his SportsTV company, and made available extra funds for signings such as England internationals Kay Hawke and Amanda Barr to assist the club's promotion bid.〔 In November 2009 the club announced a bid to join the FA WSL. If successful the club planned to divide home games between Sincil Bank and current home, Ashby Avenue. In 2009–10 they had taken second place in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division to Liverpool LFC, after finishing second to Sunderland WFC, Nottingham Forest and Liverpool LFC in the three previous seasons.〔 On 22 March 2010 Lincoln were announced as one of the eight FA WSL teams for the inaugural 2011 season,〔 which was televised on ESPN.〔 In August 2010 the club signed Jess Clarke and Sophie Bradley for their FA WSL campaign. In the same week Sue Smith also joined from Leeds United. Weeks before the start of the new competition, Lincoln made another major signing with the capture of Casey Stoney from Chelsea. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Notts County Ladies F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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