{"id":673214,"date":"2026-05-15T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673214\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:41:15","slug":"womens-super-league-2026-matildas-captain-sam-kerr-announces-she-will-leave-chelsea-at-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/673214\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Super League 2026: Matildas captain Sam Kerr announces she will leave Chelsea at the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia captain Sam Kerr, Chelsea\u2019s all-time leading scorer in English football\u2019s Women\u2019s Super League, will leave the club when her contract expires at the end of the season, it was announced Thursday.<\/p>\n

Kerr has scored 115 goals in 177 appearances for the Blues and her final game for the west London side will be at home to Manchester United on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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The 32-year-old has helped Chelsea win five Women\u2019s Super League titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups and the Community Shield.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I reflect on my Chelsea career and doing it for the last time, I just feel happy,\u201d said Kerr in a club statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cHappy that it happened, and I feel so grateful to have played for this club for six years and won as many trophies as we could.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kerr\u2019s time in England has also been marked by difficulties in both her football career and personal life.<\/p>\n

She spent 20 months on the sidelines after suffering a knee ligament injury in January 2024.<\/p>\n

That same month saw Kerr charged with racially aggravated harassment against a police officer following an incident in London arising from a disputed taxi fare.<\/p>\n

Kerr, however, was found not guilty 13 months later following a trial that made headlines in Britain and Australia.<\/p>\n

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Sam Kerr of Chelsea celebrates scoring her team’s second goal during the Adobe Women’s FA Cup Semi Final match between Chelsea and Manchester City.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

This season Kerr has scored 16 goals to become Chelsea\u2019s leading scorer in the WSL. She needs one more goal to equal Fran Kirby\u2019s all-time club record.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank Sam for her incredible contribution to our success on the pitch and sustained growth off it,\u201d said a Chelsea statement. \u201cWe wish her all the best in the next chapter of her career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kerr has been linked with to a return to the NWSL in the US, where she played from 2013 to 2019 and was twice named the league\u2019s MVP. Kerr\u2019s wife is Kristie Mewis, a former U.S. women\u2019s national team player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia captain Sam Kerr, Chelsea\u2019s all-time leading scorer in English football\u2019s Women\u2019s Super League, will leave the club…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-673214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673214","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=673214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}