{"id":573702,"date":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/573702\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:44:11","slug":"womens-super-league-palace-sign-spurs-defender-molly-bartrip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/573702\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Super League: Palace sign Spurs defender Molly Bartrip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Newly promoted Women&#8217;s Super League club Crystal Palace have signed Tottenham defender Molly Bartrip for an undisclosed fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old joins on a three-year deal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c5yzyn8xxq3o#:~:text=Newly%20promoted%20Women&#039;s%20Super%20League,for%20a%20further%2012%20months.\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reunites with ex-Spurs captain Bethany England<\/a> as one of Palace&#8217;s summer arrivals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bartrip spent five years at Tottenham, making over 100 appearances, and was named vice-captain in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She played in every game during the 2024\u201325 season and signed a three-year contract extension off the back of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defender, who represented England&#8217;s youth teams, was also part of the Tottenham squad who reached the Women&#8217;s FA Cup final for the first time in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a strong window so far for Palace, who achieved promotion back up to the WSL with their second-placed finish in the second tier last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bartrip and England bring a wealth of WSL experience, while they have also signed last season&#8217;s WSL 2 top scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz64xe19dy8o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lexi Lloyd-Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newly promoted Women&#8217;s Super League club Crystal Palace have signed Tottenham defender Molly Bartrip for an undisclosed fee.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-573702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}