Leyton Orient Women

Gizmo's preview: Leyton Orient Women vs Hertford Town

Cheshunt stadium
Oct 11, 2026

This Sunday we welcome league leaders Hertford Town to Cheshunt for a challenging match. Not a club which likes to advertise itself as you must follow on Instagram, Facebook or X to find out what’s happening. (Apologies, but I’m old and like a website with basic information.) Hertford FC go back to 1901 but the women’s team is a later addition and has been playing in this division since 2023-24 occupying a firmly mid-table place until this season.

📷 Roy Warner

They seem to have brought in some new recruits this season, which is reflected in their results. They have one of the more potent attacks in the division spearheaded by Olivia Thornton, Charlie Mills and Elissa Morris. Ella Draper is the keeper. In front of her Keira Groves is in central defence and captains the team (I think) and last week was joined by Lily Martin, Chloe Gormley and Emily Warren (the Blues sisters?). Sienna Goodfellow is a hard-working central midfielder who has been in good form.

📷 HTWFC

Orient come to this match after a disappointing 3-0 loss to AFC Welwyn, who played the second half of the match with ten women. Everyone will be looking to put in a better performance this time. This is a challenge for Jody Buckley and his team, which I’m sure they will relish. Captain Stef Paci will be looking to rally the girls for this match. Aimee Brosnan made her debut last week and will be looking to get more minutes. Fliss Tatum should continue in goal, flanked by ever presents Erin Cheyne and Kaylee Shurety. They will be supported by Gracie Hickman and Elissa Stonebrook. Up front Amy Yeldham is our leading scorer with three but loads of the girls are on two, like Beth Brogan and Sam Read and will be looking to keep up with her. Tiff Balfour may have the chance to make an appearance as well.

📷 HTWFC

The game against Welwyn was a reminder that things don’t always go to plan. Fliss is a good goalkeeper but hit a shot with the right arc from the right distance and, without magic beans, she’s not got the height. But this cuts both ways. It’s a competitive division and if Orient are on it and Hertford are not, then anything is possible. I expect a close, competitive game.

The game is scheduled to kick-off at 2:00pm. We encourage you go and take a look at the O's ladies set up, you'll have a fun afternoon. Click HERE for information about how to get there, parking, entry (it's free), covered seating, refreshments etc.

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The current league table

Current at 8 Oct 2026

The full updated league table is available via the FA's "full-time" website. It doesn't always work well if you use ad-blockers or secure browsers like BRAVE.

Play for Orient women

The club has again made efforts at player recruitment. Without insider knowledge, we assume that Orient women's head coach Jody Buckley is concerned that the squad's depth needs some bolstering to help enable him, Marc and Stu to achieve the club's aims for this season. Orient never stop looking for ways to improve the squad.

To their credit, the club have tried to point out why Leyton Orient is the best option for skilled players (which it is... Ed) and have added more information for would-be recruits. We've reproduced it here:

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Making Live-Text shows can be a bit frantic but it's a lot of fun bringing you minute-by-minute updates as the game progresses. Not knowing the outcome adds some spice to the mix. We have Larry Peterson and Ben James (plus friends and the LOFCwomen.com air-horn) at the games, they send in reports every couple of minutes and we post them, live! straight onto our website. There are no adverts, no cookies, no tracking, no sponsors and there's no need to keep refreshing the page to see the latest update - we do all that - every game.

Click on this this direct link and it will take you to Sunday's LIVE-TEXT show for the cup match against AFC Welwyn.

Sunday's fixtures round-up

There will be five league games in Division One - South (D1S) of the Eastern Region Women's football league on Sunday.

⚽  Enfield are unbeaten in the league, Chelmsford are the only team with 100% record. If Chelmsford win this, their way to the title looks open - if they can keep it up.

⚽  Hutton are struggling, so were AFC Welwyn until they hit us for three last Sunday. If they continue in that form, the points are theirs for the taking.

⚽  Toby and Wormley are battling in mid table, both have been getting stronger, this looks like a 50-50 battle.