Notts County Ladies F.C.

[3] The club was promoted in each of the following seasons, bar one, until reaching the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division in 2002.

[4] 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.

board member Ray Trew in June 2008 led to the club's change of name to OOH Lincoln Ladies.

[7] On 22 March 2010 Lincoln were announced as one of the eight FA WSL teams for the inaugural 2011 season,[7][10][11] which was televised on ESPN.

[7] In August 2010 the club signed Jess Clarke and Sophie Bradley for their FA WSL campaign.

[13] Weeks before the start of the new competition, Lincoln made another major signing with the capture of Casey Stoney from Chelsea.

[15] Before that the club spent three seasons playing in Collingham, Nottinghamshire at the Station Road ground, which became a "fortress".

[8] The FA Women's Cup semi-final in 2008 attracted 3,000 fans to Sincil Bank, while over 1,500 attended other high-profile home matches.

On 26 April 2013, the club said it would become Notts County Ladies from the 2014 season onwards, but did not reveal logistics of the presumed move to Nottingham.