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The 2013/14 season saw Exeter City playing in the fourth tier of the South West Combination.
Home games were to be played at Topsham FC, on Sunday at 2pm.

South West Combination 2013/14

				Score
08/09/2013	League	Newquay	Away	5-0	Sanchez	Knapman 2	Caunter	Barter
22/09/2013	League	Plymouth	Away	0-5	:
29/09/2013	League	Southampton	Home	3-2	Kukor	Knapman	Wright
06/10/2013	League	Keynsham Development	Away	5-2	Kukor 2	Sanchez	Barter	Wright
13/10/2013	League	Swindon	Home	1-4	Caunter
17/11/2013	League	Keynsham Development	Home	1-1	Barter
08/12/2013	League	Newquay	Home	2-1	Knapman	Copp
16/02/2014	League	Shanklin	Away	2-1	Knapman 2
02/03/2014	League	Swindon	Away	2-1	Kukor	Wright
09/03/2014	League	Forest Green Rovers	Home	2-1	Sanchez	Knapman
16/03/2014	League	Portsmouth University	Away	15-1	Kukor 5	Knapman 6	Staddon 2	Sanchez	Og
23/03/2014	League	Shanklin	Home	5-2	Kukor 3	Knapman 2
30/03/2014	League	Chichester	Away	2-2	Knapman	Ghilglia
06/04/2014	League	Southampton	Away	1-3	Knapman
13/04/2014	League	Forest Green Rovers	Away	3-2	Kukor	Knapman 2
15/04/2014	DC Cup Final	Plymouth Argyle	Neutral	1-5	Wright
23/04/2014	League	Chichester	Home	2-5	Knapman	Kukor
27/04/2014	League	Portsmouth University	Home	Walkover	:
06/05/2014	League	Plymouth	Home	1-1	Badger
11/05/2014	League	Larkhall	Away	4-1	Sanchez	Caunter	Knapman	Kukor
18/05/2014	League	Larkhall	Home	Walkover	:

Final Table

	2013-14	P	W	D	L	GD	Pts
1	Plymouth Argyle	20	14	4	2	35	46
2	Exeter City	20	13	3	4	21	42
3	Chichester City	20	13	5	2	31	38 *
4	Forest Green Rovers	20	12	1	7	21	37
5	Swindon Town	20	11	2	7	21	35
6	Larkhall Athletic	20	8	2	10	0	25 *
7	Southampton Saints	20	7	0	13	-9	21
8	Shanklin	20	6	3	11	-13	21
9	Ketnsham Development	20	4	6	10	-17	17 *
10	Newquay	20	5	1	14	-29	16
11	University of Portsmouth	20	3	1	16	-61	3 *

Women’s FA Cup

				Score
03/11/2013	FA Cup QR3	Parley Sports	Home	6-0	Knapman 2	Sanchez 2	Caunter	Copp
01/12/2013	FA Cup R1	Gosport Borough	Home	3-1	Brook	Knapman	Barter
02/02/2014	FA Cup R2	Plymouth	Home	1-6	Ghilglia

Devon County FA Cup

				Score
24/11/2013	R1	Torquay Ladies	Away	1-0	Knapman
09/02/2014	SF	Plympton	Away	3-1	Sanchez	Barter	Kukor
15/04/2014	Final	Plymouth Argyle	Neutral	1-5	Wright

Friendlies

			Score
21/07/2013	Torquay Ladies	Home	4-0	Kukor 2	Garcia-Sanchez	Knapman
29/07/2013	Tottenham Hotspur Ladies	Away	4-5	Knapman 2	Garcia-Sanchez	Kukor
10/08/2013	PILCS Ladies	Away	3-6	Sanchez 2	Kukor

Season of achievements for Grecians’ ladies squad

It has been a season of fantastic achievements for Exeter City Ladies, who finished their campaign this weekend getting three points off Larkhall. The Grecians narrowly missed out on promotion into the FA Women’s Premier League, finishing runners up to local rivals Plymouth Argyle.

This was Exeter’s second season in the South West Combination, and this season’s finish as runners-up is the clubs highest ever finish – and it is a tremendous achievement considering at Christmas they were well down the pecking order in mid-table. A superb run which saw the ladies only lose on two occasions since the New Year saw them push the eventual champions to the wire. Exeter also reached the Devon FA County Cup final again, but weren’t able to retain their crown as the Pilgrims took the win.

Manager Chad Gribble, who is due to step down at the end of the season after being appointed the academy’s new Foundation Phase Lead Coach, was thrilled with the achievements of the players. He said: “The players are a success of the environment they have created in the way they train at a high intensity, demand a lot of each other and look out for one another. They are a really tight-knit group who have been great to work with and help develop.

“They have every chance of achieving promotion next season if they continue to work as hard as they have this season and keep believing they are good enough. I genuinely believe this is the best group of players the club has had and there is tremendous potential there to be built upon.”

Exeter’s ladies will finish with their award ceremony at the beginning of June, so no announcement can be made yet on who has taken what in what has been a successful campaign.

Centre-forward Helen Kukor said: “I think we’ve had a great season – nobody expected us to do that well and I think we’ve surpassed all expectations. Not that it’s been easy – travelling away most weeks with 11 or 12 players isn’t ideal, but the results we have come our way which shows the strength of the bond between the players. Naturally we were gutted to lose to Argyle but I think we will be stronger for it next year.”

Captain Catherine Wright added: “It has been a brilliant season and we deserve to finish where we have due to the team spirit shown by all the girls and coaching staff on and off the pitch. We’ve had plenty of games where we have had girls playing out of position for the team and also playing through injuries and we have gone on to pick up many points we weren’t expected to get. Me and all the girls have enjoyed the season and look forward to the next campaign.”

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