{"id":2067,"date":"2026-05-12T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:02:43","slug":"england-womens-great-mead-to-leave-arsenal-at-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/england-womens-great-mead-to-leave-arsenal-at-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"England women&#8217;s great Mead to leave Arsenal at the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-14.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-14-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image-14-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>England forward Beth Mead will leave Arsenal when her contract expires at the end of the season, it was announced Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year-old made her decision public in an emotional video posted on the club&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mead has scored 86 goals in 263 appearances during nine seasons as she helped the north London club win a Women&#8217;s Super League, three League Cups, the FIFA Champions Cup and the Women&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mead, who joined Arsenal from Sunderland in 2017, said Arsenal were &#8220;not just the club, where I play football, but where I&#8217;ve grown up, where I found myself, and where I felt a love and belonging, I&#8217;ll carry with me forever&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added: &#8220;We&#8217;ve shared some unbelievable moments together, winning the league title in 2019, lifting the league cups, and maybe the most special one last season, the Champions League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Those nights, those celebrations, hearing you all, those are memories I&#8217;ll replay in my mind for the rest of my life&#8230; Leaving this club isn&#8217;t easy. It breaks my heart in ways I didn&#8217;t expect, but I leave it with so much love, so much pride, and so much gratitude.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Arsenal will always be a part of me, always. Thank you for everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mead made her England debut a year after joining Arsenal and went to become a two-time European champion with the Lionesses, with the first of those triumphs, in 2022, seeing her named player of the tournament and also winning the golden boot as the competition&#8217;s leading goal-scorer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she missed the 2023 Women&#8217;s World Cup after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament before regaining fitness to win the League Cup again in 2024 and the Champions League last season, when Arsenal defeated Barcelona in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arsenal&#8217;s director of women&#8217;s football, Clare Wheatley, said: &#8220;Beth has made a huge contribution to our football club over nine years, and will go down in history as one of our best forwards and a legend of the club.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England forward Beth Mead will leave Arsenal when her c [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}