{"id":672743,"date":"2026-05-15T14:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672743\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:34:14","slug":"liverpools-gemma-bonner-and-gemma-evans-to-exit-club-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672743\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Gemma Bonner and Gemma Evans to exit club this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool have confirmed defenders Gemma Bonner and Gemma Evans will leave the club at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bonner captained the Reds to successive Women&#8217;s Super League titles in 2013 and 2014 and was in her second spell at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 34-year-old is Liverpool&#8217;s all-time record appearance holder in the WSL era, having played 186 games and is considered a club legend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A dressing room at the Kirkby Academy has been named after Bonner and she netted a memorable brace in a 4-3 victory over Chelsea in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Injury disrupted her game time this season, meaning she featured just 10 times under manager Gareth Taylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wales international Evans joined from Manchester United in 2024 and has made 38 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old has helped the club reach back-to-back FA Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cdep2k71d5no\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sport reported last week<\/a> that WSL 2 side Newcastle United are in talks to sign Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players will be celebrated by the club at Anfield on Saturday in their final WSL game of the season against Arsenal (13:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have confirmed defenders Gemma Bonner and Gemma Evans will leave the club at the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-672743","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\/672743","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=672743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}