{"id":1559,"date":"2026-04-30T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialsport.online\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:43:03","slug":"leah-williamson-signs-new-contract-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Leah Williamson signs new contract | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We\u2019re delighted to announce that Leah Williamson has signed a new contract with us.<\/p>\n<p>Our vice-captain\u2019s journey with Arsenal began 20 years ago in 2006, when an eight-year-old Leah had her first youth training session at Highbury.<\/p>\n<p>In the two decades since, Leah has established herself as one of the best defenders in the world, winning virtually every trophy available at both club and international level and earning plaudits from across the game for her character, leadership and mentality. <\/p>\n<article data-entity-type=\"media\" data-entity-uuid=\"466a8fe7-83b3-45fd-9b5b-47bd685ed969\" data-embed-button=\"video_embed\" data-entity-embed-display=\"view_mode:media.full\" data-video-embed-up-next-tray=\"hide\" data-langcode=\"en\" data-entity-embed-display-settings=\"()\" class=\"embedded-entity u-spacing-down--xxl\">\n<\/article>\n<p>Now aged 29, Leah has made 282 appearances for our club, scoring 17 goals. She counts one UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League, one FIFA Women\u2019s Champions Cup, one Barclays Women\u2019s Super League, four League Cups and two FA Cups among her achievements here at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>As England captain, Leah made history by leading the Lionesses to back-to-back UEFA European Women\u2019s Championship titles in 2022 and 2025. She was made an OBE following that first Euros win, while an MBE followed in 2026. In total, Leah has won 67 England caps, scoring five goals.<\/p>\n<p>Leah has received plenty of deserved individual recognition over the years, most recently a Ballon d\u2019Or nomination in 2025 and inclusion in the FIFPRO World XI and UEFA Women\u2019s Champions League Team of the Year, both also in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone at the club looks forward to Leah\u2019s continued leadership and performances here at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re delighted to announce that Leah Williamson has signed a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialsport.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}