Above: Georgia Brougham playing for London City Lionesses. Photo: Wing Chong
By Aimee Reynolds and Morganna King (26/06/24)
London City Lionesses defender Georgia Brougham puts pen to paper for another season with the Championship side.
Ahead of the 2024/25 Barclay’s Women’s Championship season, defender Georgia Brougham has signed a one-year contract extension with London City Lionesses. Her inaugural season at the club began in August 2023 after joining from Women’s Super League side Leicester City.
Brougham made 26 appearances across the board last season, playing a crucial part in City’s defence to help them avoid relegation from the Barclay’s Women’s Championship. Her calmness and collectedness on the ball as well as overall ball-playing ability has earned Brougham the nickname of ‘Rolls Royce defender’.
Brougham’s contributions to the club so far are undoubtedly immense as she was voted London City Lionesses Player’s Player of the season by a landslide amount thanks to her fellow teammates and club staff. The awards didn’t start there though, as she took home the league cup with Manchester City in 2014 before going on to represent Everton, Birmingham City and Leicester City.
In the 2023/24 Barclay’s Women’s Championship season, London City Lionesses placed eighth which is quite a contrast to their third place finish in the season prior. During this period, many new faces were brought into the club; Brougham included. As well as head coach Carolina Morace who was then replaced by Remi Allen in February 2024 who went on to achieve four wins in six.
The competitive fight to stay in the Championship was tough for the side, but the battle never ended and luckily the squad survived the relegation zone. “I’m a winner, it hurt to be where we were in the table last season, and I just want to keep improving. You never stop learning as a player and, with a new manager coming in, it’s important that I’m able to adapt, advance my game, and become an experienced senior player” Brougham commented.
The decision to stay a blue wasn’t a hard decision for the defender. “The clubs vision for the future is incredibly exciting” spoke the 28 year old over her decision to stay. “It was a rebuilding year for us last year, but that experience will spur us on to do better and achieve our ambitions this time.” The season LCL has had was a ride throughout; changing managers and playing a selection of new opponents in the WC, Continental Cup and Adobe Women’s FA Cup.
Director of Football Ronald Thompson spoke highly of the defender: “Georgia Brings a certain level of calmness to the game as a player. She’s one of those players who can defend when it’s frantic and calms the play down when she has the ball.”
“We see Georgia as a vital individual to help us on the journeythat we’re moving forward with. We want players who are good people and Georgia is a good person on and off the pitch.”
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