The Newcastle Jets have announced the signing of New Zealand international goalkeeper Anna Leat for the Ninja A-League 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n
24-year-old Leat joins the Jets after playing abroad in New Zealand with Eastern Suburbs as well as Hibiscus Coast A.F.C. <\/p>\n
Leat has also played in England in the Women\u2019s Super League with West Ham United and Aston Villa.<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE TO HEAD TO THE NINJA UTE A-LEAGUE TRANSFER CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n The experienced goalkeeper has made 22 appearances for the New Zealand women\u2019s national team and was a member of their 2023 FIFA World Cup squad. She also represented New Zealand at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n Leat is eager to hit the ground running.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m stoked to be joining the Newcastle Jets! Playing in the A-League has always been a dream of mine and I can\u2019t wait to experience this league and the Newcastle culture. I\u2019m ready to get started and work with Stephen and the team,\u201d Leat said.<\/p>\n Newcastle Jets Head Coach Stephen Hoyle added: \u201cI\u2019m excited to work with Anna day in, day out. <\/p>\n READ MORE \u201cI\u2019ve seen her ability firsthand and have followed her journey closely ever since she played a pivotal role in New Zealand\u2019s U17s Bronze medal run at the 2018 Women\u2019s U17 World Cup. <\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s still only 24 but brings a wealth of experience from her time in the Barclays Women\u2019s Super League. I can\u2019t wait to see her flourish for the Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Newcastle Jets have announced the signing of New Zealand international goalkeeper Anna Leat for the Ninja A-League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[23655,20418,23656,64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-23626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-a-league-women","tag-a-leagues","tag-alwfeatured","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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