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\n‘It’s such an important decision over my future’<\/p>\n
Seamus Coleman has confirmed that he is finishing his Everton playing career at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
The Republic of Ireland international, who has clocked up 433 appearances for Everton since joining from Sligo Rovers in 2009, made the announcement on the club’s Youtube channel this morning.<\/p>\n
“Hi Evertonians, just a message to say that after over 17 years at this amazing football club, this year will be my last as a player,” Coleman said in his message.<\/p>\n
Coleman did not say he was retiring from the game, though he disclosed that Everton had offered him the opportunity to remain at the club in a coaching capacity.<\/p>\n
The 37-year old said he intended to play for Ireland in the upcoming summer friendlies before deciding what to do next.<\/p>\n
“I want to have some time over the summer to focus on what’s next, for me and for my family,” Coleman said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, my love for Everton is something you all know about and I have a huge love for Ireland as well.<\/p>\n
“I’m going to take some time over the summer, play the Ireland games and take some time with my family to decide what’s next.<\/p>\n
“The club have been unbelievable with me. They’ve offered me an opportunity to stay on with the football club. The manager has been great, the staff have been great.<\/p>\n
“It’s such an important decision over my future. I’m going to take a nice long holiday with my family and look back on what has been an amazing time as an Everton footballer.<\/p>\n
“This will always be my club. Thank you for letting me be part of it for more than 17 years.”<\/p>\n
\n‘It’s such an important decision over my future’<\/p>\n
Coleman had signed a one-year deal to remain on as a player at the end of last season, though made just three appearances in the Premier League in the 2025-26 campaign, the last of which occurred in the 1-0 win away to Manchester United in November, when he went off injured after just 10 minutes.<\/p>\n
Prior to that, the full-back had made a stunning return to the international set-up having been initially excluded from the September window, in which Ireland were beaten 2-1 in Armenia.<\/p>\n
The Donegal full-back, a veteran of Euro 2016, played a pivotal role in Ireland’s wins over Portugal and Hungary last November and then played on until extra-time in the World Cup qualification play-off semi-final against Czechia in March.<\/p>\n
Joining Everton as a 20-year old from Sligo Rovers in January 2009, Coleman went onto become a club legend, winning the club’s player of the season award in 2013-14 and earning inclusion on the PFA Team of the Year the same season.<\/p>\n
In January 2025, he briefly served as interim player-manager, alongside Leighton Baines in the dugout, in the wake of Sean Dyche’s sacking, with Everton beating Peterborough United 2-0 in the FA Cup in his sole game in the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamus Coleman has confirmed that he is finishing his Everton playing career at the end of the season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-450032","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\/450032","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=450032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}