The former captain of the Fulham women's team has revealed how she was sexually assaulted as a young player by the club's ex-owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

Ronnie Gibbons says she was just aged just 20 when she was twice driven by members of the club's staff from Fulham's training ground in New Malden to Al Fayed's Harrods store in Knightsbridge.

She was taken under the pretence of speaking to Al Fayed's children about football and was showered with gold chocolates and gifts including an envelope containing £500 cash.

But once in his office Al Fayed, who was then 71, attempted to forcefully kiss her, made her sit on his knee while he stroked her, and then groped her as she attempted to leave.

The serial sex monster also offered to buy her an apartment in Knightsbridge, give her mother a job, and says that she was told by the now disgraced paedophile publicist Max Clifford - who worked for Al Fayed and was later jailed for indecent assaults on young women and girls - that he would turn her into a superstar.

The first sexual assault happened in the summer of 2000 when lifelong Fulham fan Gibbons was asked to go to Harrods by a member of the football club's staff.

Al Fayed owned Fulham between 1997 and 2013.

Gibbons said: "I felt kind of excited. I was at Harrods, meeting this guy who has done this amazing thing for Fulham Ladies and he's chairman of Fulham Football Club, my team.

"I was summoned to his office and I don't know if the door automatically closed or it was closed behind me, but I went in and it was just him. I was a bit like, 'This is a bit weird'.

"He said, 'Oh, I'm very sorry, there was a security breach and my children couldn't come'. Then he pulled me in close and tried to kiss me on the mouth. He had his arms holding my arms, like at my side so I couldn't push him away or anything like that. It was a real kind of control stance, like 'I'm dominating you'.

"He held my arms, pulled me in and tried to kiss me on the mouth. I sort of moved my head so he could only kiss me on the cheek. I was wearing my Fulham tracksuit and just felt sweat instantly on the back of my neck.

"I was just like, 'What do I do here?' I just felt like a huge responsibility on my shoulders at that point because we'd just turned professional."

Gibbons said that she tried to distract him by complementing a photograph of him with the late Queen at a horse-racing meeting on his wall.

Gibbons said she was summoned to visit Al Fayed a second time that summer and had to bang on the door to get out as he attempted to kiss and groped her again.

She then refused the envelope stashed with £50 notes and stopped answering her phone to private numbers and avoided him thereafter.

A BBC expose last month, entitled Al Fayed: Predator At Harrods, detailed the stories of more than 20 female employees at Harrods who said that he sexually assaulted or raped them.

Since then almost 300 women had come forward to accuse the former Harrods owner of abusing them with the luxury store confirming it is negation with over 200 former employees. The offences range between 1977 and 2013.

Al Fayed died last year aged 94.

Gibbons is the first former Fulham footballer to speak publically about being sexually abused by the Egyptian-born tycoon and is understood to be one of four former footballers signed up to the 'Justice for Harrods Survivors' group.

In a statement the group said: "What former Fulham captain Ronnie Gibbons was forced to endure at the hands of Mohamed Al Fayed is yet another horrible example of the monstrous abuse aided and abetted by the businesses he owned.

"We salute our client's bravery and are proud to advocate for Ronnie and others at Fulham who are searching for justice. We will do whatever we can to lift the lid on abuse, no matter where it was perpetrated, or who it was perpetrated by, including any enablers of Al Fayed's abhorrent behaviour."

In a statement Fulham said: "We unequivocally condemn all forms of abuse. We remain in the process of establishing whether anyone at the club is, or would have been, impacted by Mohamed Fayed in any manner as described in recent reports."

A Harrods spokesperson said: "We are utterly appalled by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Mohamed Al Fayed. These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms.

"We also acknowledge that during this time his victims were failed and for this, we sincerely apologise."