Jersey Bulls Women manager Chad Morris says the club may request to be promoted by two divisions, should they keep up their winning form.
Jersey Bulls Women manager Chad Morris says the club may request to be promoted by two divisions, should they keep up their winning form.
The island side have won all 10 of their matches in their first season in South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One.
It is the island side's first season in English football and they are currently dominating their eighth tier league, having scored 65 goals and conceded just eight.
"I think we've proved enough as a team that we're half decent and maybe better than this level," Morris told BBC Sport.
"At the end of the season [we can] ask to be put in a higher tier.
"Ideally we would finish this season whatever happens, if we go up or not, we've shown that we're good enough to be in certainly tier six.
"We spoke to Fleet Town yesterday, they were there watching our game and we beat them just before Christmas. They said 'you're easily good enough to be in tier five. You would definitely be at this moment in time when you've got your best squad, a mid-table tier five team'.
"But you've got to earn that right to get there, so I think it'd be get this season done, we've proved enough whatever happens that we're good enough to play at a high tier and it's can we skip the next one up and go into tier six."
With little history of games on the English mainland, Jersey Bulls were put in South East Counties Women's Football League Surrey Division One this season.
Morris hopes that if his side can keep up their good form they can prove to the football authorities that they are capable of skipping a tier.
"You've got to put your application in and why you should be in that league, but you can't do that unless you've got history in the UK, which by the end of the season we will have," he said.
"That coach saying that is a big compliment, that you're good enough to play in tier five but you have to get there.
"If you get put into tier six, which hopefully we think is going to happen, that doesn't mean anything because all you need is a Farnham in your league."
The Surrey side are currently dominating Southern Region Women's Football League Division One South with eight wins from eight - a division which also contains Bulls' Channel Island rivals Guernsey FC.
"We could get brought up to tier six, it doesn't mean we're going to win the league because only one team goes up.
"If you've got a rogue team like Farnham in who are going to pay some money, which they do, and get players from tier three and four to come down because they want to go through the leagues quickly.
"But we need to be in a tier where it's competitive."
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