{"id":636086,"date":"2026-04-28T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:10:13","slug":"steph-catley-arsenal-defender-signs-new-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/636086\/","title":{"rendered":"Steph Catley: Arsenal defender signs new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal defender Steph Catley has signed a new contract with the Women&#8217;s Super League club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 32-year-old Australian joined Arsenal from Melbourne City in July 2020 and has made 165 appearances, scoring four goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport understands she has signed a two-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Catley helped the Gunners lift their first Women&#8217;s Champions League title in 18 years last season, starting all five of the club&#8217;s knockout matches and playing a key role in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cy750rjxyy2t#Report\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0 win over Barcelona<\/a> in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has also won two League Cups and the Fifa Champions Cup during her six years in north London, and was nominated for the Ballon d&#8217;Or following a strong 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal defender Steph Catley has signed a new contract with the Women&#8217;s Super League club. The 32-year-old Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-636086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636086","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=636086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}