In the same season, Forest also reached the FA Women's Premier League Cup 2010–2011 final where they were defeated by Barnet on penalties.

[13][14][15][16] Nottingham Forest Ladies continued as a self-funded football club until the FA Women's Premier League 2017–2018 season.

The team, however, were unable to better that 4th-place finish with a highest place finish of 6th in the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division 2015–2016 season and the semi finals of the FA Women's Premier League Cup in the 2015–2016 competition (in which they were defeated 1-0 by eventual winners Tottenham Hotspur).

The Regional Talent Centre age groups covered under 12s, 14s and 16s, in which the under 12s competed in Charter Standard youth leagues (designed to enable players to further develop both technically and physically) and the older age groups competed in Football Association organised fixture programmes against other Regional Talent Centres.

The club also won the FA Women's National League Plate for the first time by beating AFC Wimbledon 2-1 in the 2021–22 final.

The club, however, were able to retain the services of 2022–2023 leading goal scorer Charlotte Greengrass, club captain Lyndsey Harkin, Aja Aguirre, Becky Anderson, Emily Batty, Olivia Cook, Sophie Domingo, Hayley James, Mai Moncaster, Laura-Jayne O’Neill, and Niamh Reynolds.

[57][58][59][60][61][62] Forest added to their first-team squad ahead of the start of their FA Women’s National League Northern Premier League title defence season by completing the signings of full-back Nat Johnson and midfielders Mollie Green, Holly Manders, and Freya Thomas.

[63][64][65][66] Forest started the season strongly with successive league victories over Stourbridge (home, 7-0), West Bromwich Albion (away, 1-4), and AFC Fylde (home, 3-1) and a 5-0 away win against Solihull Moors to progress to the FA Women’s National League Cup first round and defend their 2022-2023 crown.

The promising start to the season was enhanced with the arrivals of defender Abi Cowie and forward Louanne Worsey on season-long deals from the Women’s Championship team Birmingham City.

This run (of which the only loss was a 0-1 home defeat against league leaders Newcastle United) left the side in 2nd place (four points behind Newcastle) and saw Northern Ireland U19 international full-back Ella Haughey and midfielder Alice Keitley join the club from Lisburn Rangers and a dual-registration loan from Women’s Super League team Aston Villa respectively.

[69][70] Carly Davies’ side was unable to take their momentum from eight consecutive wins into the Women’s FA Cup fifth-round tie against Everton with the Women’s Super League side running out comfortable 1-7 winners at Grange Park with Forest generating £123,000 in revenue from their furthest run in the competition since the 2012-2013 season.

Moving to a full time professional model, the women would see an overall contact with the squad, which would allow for an enhanced learning and training education in addition to being able to access the elite nutritional, medical, support and recovery services the club offers.

With the Women’s first team and Girl’s academy together, the move will help meet FIFA’s “recommendations for optimal talent development”.

Finally as part of its ‘Vision for Sport’ initiative, the club will launch a major expansion program for grassroots girls football venues within the city itself.

Nottingham Forest lost the game 2-0 in front of an FA Women's National League Northern Premier Division record attendance of 4,443.

[74][75] [76][77][78] Up until the 2024-25 season Nottingham Forest Women played their home games at Long Eaton United's Grange Park.