"It's something for our younger players, in the academy and for girls aspiring to be professional footballers, and it just really shows them what is possible.
It now fills their dreams, that they see that stadium that they can play in.
The younger ones in particular, when they go in the garden or when they're playing football at their school, they can have these scenarios in their mind, scoring potentially the winner in their new stadium.
It's very exciting and I'm very happy to be part of a club that's really pushing the women's game and taking it to new levels."
The club traces its origins back to 1967 when a group of telephonists formed a charity team called Brighton GPO, playing during a period when the Football Association enforced a ban on women's football.
Eileen Bourne, who joined the original team as a 17-year-old goalkeeper, recalled the organic emergence of women's squads after the 1966 World Cup.
"At that time, there was no organised women's football at all... so getting a team to join, for me, was manna from heaven," said Bourne.
"We played against the postmen, that was my first game, I don't remember the score. Probably in my scrapbook."
Bourne noted that local teams eventually established leagues that united to form the Women's Football Association. "After the World Cup, women's teams were forming organically," said Bourne.
"Shops, stores, and various organisations started getting women's teams up. We played friendlies against them."
Bourne also recalled that she did not focus heavily on the official ban while balancing her early career at a bank.
