{"id":443339,"date":"2026-05-11T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443339\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:21:08","slug":"arsenal-legend-beth-mead-to-leave-club-at-end-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443339\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal &#8216;legend&#8217; Beth Mead to leave club at end of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She suffered a serious knee injury when she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in November 2022 and was forced to miss the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/sports-personality\/64045751\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year<\/a> returned after 11 months out and was part of the England squad as the Lionesses retained their European title at Euro 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mead came on as a substitute in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/cy750rjxyy2t\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">her side&#8217;s Champions League final<\/a> against Barcelona last season and, in one of her &#8220;greatest highlights in an Arsenal shirt&#8221;, set up the winner for Stina Blackstenius as Arsenal won the title for the first time in 18 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This season, she has made 27 appearances in the WSL and Champions League, with 11 of those as a substitute, and scored five goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal have also announced Victoria Pelova, who joined them from Ajax in January 2023, will be leaving the club at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder has made 87 appearances for the Gunners, scoring six goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She suffered a serious knee injury when she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in November 2022 and was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-443339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}